What if you spent your workdays (worknights?) scouring the sky for signatures of cosmic expansion, stargazing in the most active and technologically advanced ways imaginable? That’s what our friends in the Dark Energy Survey collaboration get to do, and all from this Chilean mountaintop.
Check out the original time-lapse video and commentary at Dark Energy Detectives for more of the science and dreamy gems like this:
Our spaceship Earth is a pebble in the swirling cosmic sea around us. We watch it as if we are separate, sometimes forgetting we come from it. As we look up from within our snowglobe on a mountaintop in the Chilean Andes, it becomes easier to remember that we are a conduit between the finite and the infinite.
