DESI early data release holds nearly 2M objects
Taken during the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s “early validation” phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way.
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New effort to map the universe, unravel mysteries of ‘dark energy’
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The international collaboration that includes the University of Utah aims to construct a 3-D map of the universe in more detail than ever before.
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The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is a new robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” designed to explore the mystery of dark energy, which makes up about 68% of the universe and is speeding up its expansion.
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