Hunting Einstein Rings
When I was in school, I wanted to work on a project like CERN. In a large institution, using technology as leverage — discovering and understanding how the world around us works.
For me, that project is LSST — the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
We live in extraordinary times for cosmology and astronomy. We are capturing images of colliding black holes, discovering Earth-like exoplanets, and reaching the edges of the observable universe with the James Webb Space Telescope — where we find things that don’t fit what we know. And that forces us to form new hypotheses and revise our models.
LSST will be the next experiment that upends physics departments worldwide.
This survey will be carried out by a gigantic camera that will scan the southern sky above the Andes — the Rubin Observatory — with high precision, every night for 10 years. Together, we will record a time-lapse of the universe’s evolution.