The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is the most ambitious optical sky survey yet planned. In construction in northern Chile, this US-led project is expected to make a step-change in our understanding of dark energy, the evolution of planetary systems and their capacity to sustain life, and the constituents of matter.
In this article, Dr George Beckett summarises the project's challenges and highlights how The University of Edinburgh (in a collaboration between EPCC and the Institute for Astronomy) will provide computational services to enable world-class astronomy and cosmology.
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