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by mturmon 809 days ago
Yes, and to amplify, part of the utility is in its ability to observe transient phenomena. As we have been able to do more large-scale surveys, and scan the resulting images with transient detection software, we have observed a lot of surprises. LSST is designed to step that up by a lot.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_astronomy