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The completion of the DESI Project was formally approved on May 11. DESI is designed to gather the light of tens of millions of galaxies, and several million ultrabright deep-sky objects called quasars, using fiber-optic cables that are automatically positioned to point at 5,000 galaxies at a time by an orchestrated set of swiveling robots. Photo: Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory