The South Pole Telescope, specially designed to measure the cosmic microwave background, has recently opened its third-generation camera for a multiyear survey to observe the earliest instants of the universe.
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A year after detecting a neutron star collision, scientists are excited for the future of multimessenger astronomy and astrophysics.
From Carnegie Science, July 16, 2018: The Dark Energy Camera was one of the instruments used to make the finds.
From CNN, July 12, 2018: Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln discusses the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Its extended goal is to identify approximately 20,000 planets around nearby star systems.
From Newsweek, May 16, 2018: In a new paper, a team of scientists describe how it uncovered a new space object in 2014 using data from the Dark Energy Survey.
From Quanta, May 15, 2018: Thanks to Dark Energy Survey data, astronomers have spotted a distant world whose orbit is so odd that it is likely to have been shepherded by Planet Nine.
From Gizmodo, May 18: Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey spotted a celestial object that, according to a new paper published recently on the arXiv, is the “most extreme Trans-Neptunian object found to date.”
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.
From Astronomy, Feb. 22, 2018: The supernova, dubbed DES16C2nm, was first detected back in August 2016 by the Dark Energy Survey, which is currently mapping several hundred million galaxies in order to learn more about the mysterious force known as dark energy.
From Newsweek, Feb. 21, 2018: DES162nm was first spotted in August 2016 using the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The investigations were part of an international collaboration known as the Dark Energy Survey—a project designed to map hundreds of millions of galaxies in a search for the mysterious force that is thought to be behind the accelerating expansion of the universe.