21 February 2018
Oldest known superluminous supernova discovered
... is set to map several hundred million galaxies over a five year period, in order to find out more about dark energy, the mysterious force believed to be causing the accelerated expansion of the Universe. "It's thrilling to be part of the survey that...
23 July 2018
Small box with big designs to find the missing matter in the Universe
... 25 percent), an elusive material we have yet to conclusively identify and an even stranger substance known as dark energy. Dark energy refers to a theoretical negative pressure that is accelerating the expansion of the Universe, and it makes up the...
25 April 2016
Professor Joshua Frieman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
... understand their role as cosmological distance indicators and to improve constraints on dark energy. Currently, Frieman serves as Director of the Dark Energy Survey, an international collaboration of more than 300 scientists from 25 institutions...
26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
...satellite galaxy known as SMASH 1. With the aid of the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted in the CTIO Blanco 4-meter telescope ... is one of a number of surveys that stem from The Dark Energy Survey (DES) that has helped discover more than a dozen new...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
...Michigan, USA, found DeeDee using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), with followup measurements by the Atacama Large Millimetre.../Submillimetre Array (ALMA). The Dark Energy Survey is an optical survey of 5000 square degrees ...
19 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
...of planets at orbits like Earth, Mars and Jupiter, and provide our best measurements of the nature of dark energy,” Spergel continued. Dark energy is the term scientists have come up with to try to explain the discovery that the universe is expanding...
