Seeing Dark Energy’s True Colors: DESI Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous records for three-dimensional…
DESI Collaboration
In Quest to Map the Universe, Astrophysicists Launch Largest Sky Survey Ever
Nearly 40 years after creating the first, iconic map of the universe, researchers aim for the largest map ever. In 1983, astrophysicists at the Center…
DESI Aims to Create a 3D Map of the Universe and Unravel the Mysterious Nature of Dark Energy
Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark…
Unraveling the Mysteries of Dark Energy: Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
International collaboration, under the aegis of Berkeley Lab, aims for 3D map of the universe, unraveling of mysterious ‘dark energy.’ A five-year quest to map…
Giant 2D Atlas of the Universe Created – Helps Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey
The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Now Complete, Poised to Begin Its Search
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which will map millions of galaxies in 3D, reaches final milestone toward its startup. Even as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Prepares for Restart After Unexpected Shutdown
Before COVID-19 hit U.S., project was on track to begin its 3D map of the universe this summer. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), installed…
Building a 3D Map of the Universe to Uncover the Mysteries of Dark Energy
One of the biggest mysteries in science began with a dying star. It wasn’t any particular dying star so much as the idea of one….
‘Time Machine’ With 5,000 Robotic Eyes to Explore Dark Energy
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light of 35 million galaxies. A…
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Will Measure More Than 30 Million Galaxies and Quasars
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has archived it second major milestone, approval of Critical Decision 2 (CD–2) authorizing the project’s scientific scope, schedule, and funding…