FYST: The Telescope Built to Measure the Unknown

Cornell’s FYST project is redefining what’s possible in submillimeter astronomy, pairing extreme engineering with frontier science. Built for wide-field, ultra-sensitive sky surveys from one of the driest, highest sites on Earth, FYST is engineered to capture light from the earliest moments of the universe—revealing how the first galaxies formed and probing the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Graduate students to seasoned engineers are pushing cryogenics, instrumentation, and measurement precision to new limits to deliver a telescope capable of science that simply couldn’t be done before. For the test & measurement community, FYST is a showcase of bold design, meticulous calibration, and the power of building the tools that unlock entirely new physics.