First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

This press release was originally published by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our […]

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New Effort to Map the Universe, Unravel Mysteries of “Dark Energy”

A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark energy began officially on May 17, 2021, at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will capture and study the light from more than 30 million galaxies and other distant objects, allowing scientists to construct a 3-D map of the universe with unprecedented detail.

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