The Open Universe
The Open Universe
Sownak Bose & Ana Bonaca
Episode 20: Now Showing: The Universe in Motion
56 minutes Posted Jun 12, 2026 at 9:41 pm.
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The Universe is about to get a whole lot more crowded. For the first time in history, we have built a telescope so powerful that it will provide a comprehensive census of the cosmos that far exceeds the number of human beings on Earth. This is the LSST survey at the Vera Rubin Observatory - the home of the most astonishing high-definition camera ever constructed, tasked with producing a 10-year long movie of the night sky. Whether it's hunting for Planet 9, detecting potentially fatal near-Earth asteroids, or revealing to us the mysterious nature of dark matter and dark energy, LSST will revolutionise astronomy unlike anything that's come before!