A new view of the changing sky
Published 24 September 2026
In this third year of his Gresham College lectures, Chris Lintott, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford took to the stage on 14 September 2026 to focus on the Rubin Observatory.
I've been waiting 17 years for this.
In the opening to his latest Gresham College lecture, Chris Lintott, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, hinted at the long journey from a kernel of an idea to the latest Rubin data and discoveries.
He took to the stage on 14 September 2026 for The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky to paint a picture of how Rubin is changing the way we study the sky and how this observatory of superlatives is revolutionising astronomy. This is the third year of lectures by Professor Lintott in his series, The State of Our Universe.
Lintott takes the audience on a journey from Rubin’s early days, when the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) was a mere proposal, through to the installation of it’s world-breaking camera and to some of the latest images and discoveries that Rubin has brought us.
Watch the lecture
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/sky-night
Watch the full series of lectures
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/state-universe