26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
... galaxy known as SMASH 1. With the aid of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted in the CTIO Blanco 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak...is one of a number of surveys that stem from The Dark Energy Survey (DES) that has helped discover more than a dozen ...
04 August 2017
Most accurate measurement of Universe's dark matter revealed by DES survey
...the DES collaboration used one of the most powerful cameras in existence; DECam. At 570-megapixels, this eye on the sky ...dark matter (CDM) and dark energy. However dark matter has never been directly detected, while it is not known whether dark energy...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... to researchers. The others were discovered using the Dark Energy Camera, the primary observation tool of the Dark Energy Survey and one of the most powerful astronomical cameras on Earth. The camera was built and tested at Fermilab and is mounted...
