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Kitt Peak Telescope to Study Dark Energy

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TUCSON, Ariz., March 1, 2018 — The Kitt Peak National Observatory’s (KPNO) telescope, called the Mayall, has been reinvented for a mission to understand the physics of dark energy, an unknown form of energy that is believed to permeate all of space and accelerate the expansion of the universe. To prepare for its new mission, the Mayall will close temporarily over the next 15 months to undergo the largest overhaul in its history in preparation for the installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a massively parallel optical spectrometer capable of measuring the spectra of 5000 astronomical...Read full article

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    Published: March 2018
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    telescope
    An afocal optical device made up of lenses or mirrors, usually with a magnification greater than unity, that renders distant objects more distinct, by enlarging their images on the retina.
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