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5-Year Search for Dark Energy Begins
BERKELEY, Calif., May 24, 2021 — The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has begun its five-year search for dark energy. The device, housed at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz., will aim its robotic array of 5000 fiber optic “eyes” at the night sky to gather and study the light from tens of millions of galaxies and other distant objects within the universe. The five-year survey’s official start follows a four-month trial run of its custom instrumentation that captured spectra
NASA to Launch Wide-Field IR Survey Telescope
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 23, 2016 — NASA’s Agency Program Management Council has announced the decision to move forward with the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a six-year mission set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in the mid-2020s. WFIRST is the agency's...
Big Impact: Optics and Photonics In Space
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Mitsubishi Electric delivers focus unit to telescope
Oct 1, 2013 — The prime focus unit, a major component of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) prime focus camera newly installed in the Subaru Telescope on the Big Island of Hawaii, was delivered by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. to the National Astronomical Observatory of...
Mitsubishi Electric Delivers Major Camera Component to Telescope
TOKYO, Aug. 12, 2013 — The prime focus unit, a major component of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) prime focus camera newly installed in the Subaru Telescope on the Big Island of Hawaii, was delivered late last month by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. to the National Astronomical...
Dark energy camera takes first pictures
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Dark Energy Camera Records First Images
CERRO TOLOLO, Chile, Sept. 17, 2012 — After eight years of planning and construction, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam), achieved first light on Sept. 12. The camera was constructed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory...
Light from vacuum supports quantum principle
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Let There Be Light...In a Vacuum
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Nov. 17, 2011 — The quantum mechanical principle which states that a vacuum is not empty space, but instead teeming with particles that flit in and out of existence, has been observed for the first time as photons were coaxed to leave this virtual state and...
Expanding Universe Work Earns Trio a Physics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5, 2011 — Competing American astronomers who studied dozens of distant exploding stars, and in the process discovered that the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate, will share the $1.5 million Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011, the Royal Swedish...
Tiny Mirrors to Help VIRUS Spot Trails of Dark Energy
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 15, 2011 — Precision Glass & Optics recently delivered specialized optical mirrors for use in building VIRUS, a key instrument for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), a $36 million project that will study dark energy, the force that...
The BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars
BERKELEY, Calif., May 4, 2011 — The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars, has been constructed by scientists with the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III). The map is the first major result from the Baryon Oscillation...
UChicago Commits $50M to GMT
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Hubble Proves Cosmic Acceleration
LEIDEN, the Netherlands, April 5, 2010 — A group of astronomers led by Tim Schrabback of the Leiden Observatory conducted an intensive study of more than 446,000 galaxies, resulting in independent confirmation that the expansion of the universe is being accelerated by the mysterious...
The Universe Used as a Lens
CHICAGO, Feb. 25, 2009 – Scientists are harnessing the cosmos as a scientific “instrument” in their quest to determine the makeup of the universe. The University of Chicago’s Evalyn Gates calls the instrument “Einstein’s telescope.” The instrument is actually the...
EU Unveils Astronomy Plan
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Laser Comb is Ultraprecise
GARCHING, Germany, Sept. 5, 2008 -- A laser frequency comb, a new calibration technique that combines the incredible precision of an atomic clock with the sharp spectral features of laser light, has been used at a solar telescope to measure the sun's spectrum in infrared light. Such...
Astronomy Cuts Dismay RAS
LONDON, Dec. 18, 2007 -- The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has expressed its "deep disappointment" at the level of cuts to UK astronomy research announced last week by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). In an effort to prioritize funding efforts, STFC...
2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize Awarded to Dark Energy Discoverers
Jul 26, 2007 — Saul Perlmutter of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University -- and 51 of their colleagues -- will share the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation's 2007...
NIR Imaging for Deep Space
Jun 1, 2007 — What is dark energy? How much is there? And what is it doing to the universe? A growing number of scientists is hoping to answer those complex questions as preparations are made for the 2011 launch of the Joint Dark Energy Mission sponsored by...
South Pole Telescope Team to Tackle Cosmic Questions
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 28, 2007 -- Just days before nations around the world were set to begin a coordinated global research campaign called the International Polar Year (IPY), scientists at the South Pole aimed a massive new telescope at Jupiter and successfully collected the...
$1M Shaw Astronomy Prize Hails Dark Energy Discovery
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