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 Survey
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…