The Top 15 Most Stunning Photos Taken by the Dark Energy Camera
The Dark Energy Camera has taken countless photos. Here are 15 of the most spectacular. The Dark Energy Camera has taken more than a million…
Dark Energy Survey News
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is an astronomical survey designed to explore the dynamics of the expanding universe and the growth of large-scale structure, providing insights into the mysterious phenomena of dark energy. Conducted using the Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, DES began in August 2013 and concluded its observations in January 2019. The survey utilized a 570-megapixel digital camera (DECam) to capture deep images of the sky in five optical filters over approximately one-eighth of the sky. The primary goals of DES include producing detailed maps of the distribution of galaxies to study the structure of the universe over time, testing theories and models of dark energy, and improving our understanding of the evolution of the cosmos. The data from DES has been instrumental in creating the most precise maps to date of the distribution of galaxies and the large-scale structure they form, shedding light on the dark components of the universe that drive its expansion.
Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls Into View – Dark Energy Camera Captures Celestial Phenomena
Dark Energy Camera captures a trove of celestial phenomena in one shot. This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy…
Major 6-Year Search of the Outer Solar System Turns Up 461 New Objects (but No Planet 9)
In the near future, astronomers will benefit from the presence of next-generation telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Nancy Grace Roman…
Unusual Comet – 1000 Times More Massive Than Typical – Discovered in Outer Solar System by Dark Energy Survey
Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031. A giant comet from the…
Exploring 7 Billion Light Years of Space With the Dark Energy Survey – Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution
Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over ⅛…
Shining a New Light on Dark Energy: DES Releases Catalog of 700 Million Objects
The Dark Energy Survey has released a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of work. Containing data on nearly…
Dark Matter Breakthrough Allows Probing Three of the Most Popular Theories, All at the Same Time
Observations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have yielded simultaneous constraints on three popular theories of dark matter. A team of scientists led by…
100 Undiscovered Galaxies May Be Out There Orbiting the Milky Way – With Dark Matter Secrets
‘Groupie’ galaxies orbiting Milky Way tell us about dark matter, how galaxy formed. We live in a big-city galaxy. The Milky Way is so big…
Dark Energy Telescope Enables Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses
Images collected for dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidates. Like crystal balls for the universe’s deeper mysteries, galaxies, and other…
First Results From the Dark Energy Survey: Relationship Between Mass and Light Around Cosmic Voids
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) program uses the patterns of cosmic structure as seen in the spatial distribution of hundreds of millions of galaxies to…
Dark Energy Survey Reveals 11 Newly Discovered Stellar Streams
At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public…
DES Results of First Search for Visible Light Associated with Gravitational Waves
The Dark Energy Survey has already discovered more than 1,000 supernovae and mapped millions of galaxies to help us understand the accelerating expansion of our…
Astronomers Develop a New Model for Cataloging the Universe
Scientists from the Berkeley Lab have created a new statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools: sky surveys. The…
Dark Energy Survey Finds New Dwarf Galaxy Candidates
The Dark Energy Survey has discovered 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six months, leaving scientists to believe that there could be many more…