Lab Notes: What will we see in a 10-year movie of the universe?

The longest survey of our southern skies — The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) — has just begun from the Vera Rubin Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Over the next 10 years, the largest digital camera on Earth will look at the same patches of sky time and again, aiming to record exploding stars, new asteroids, and maybe find what's behind dark energy.

Jonathan Webb gets sucked into grand cosmic questions with Dr Anais Möller, as they discuss how astronomers are getting a head start on their research from the survey.

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Featuring:

• Dr Anais Möller, Senior Research Fellow Swinburne University

Further information:

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This episode of Lab Notes was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri people.