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New DESI Results Strengthen Hints That Dark Energy May Evolve

March 19, 2025 by joannajita

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 19 March 2025

DESI Opens Access to the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Yet

March 19, 2025 by joannajita

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 19 March 2025

New DESI Results Weigh in on Gravity

November 19, 2024 by joannajita

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 19 November 19 2024

First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

April 4, 2024 by sambrieden

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 4 April 2024

DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly Two Million Objects

June 13, 2023 by aberti

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 13 June 2023

New DESI Planetarium Show to Premiere in 2023

March 7, 2023 by aberti

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 27 February 2023

DESI Resumes Cataloguing the Cosmos

October 7, 2022 by aberti

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 7 October 2022

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Creates Largest 3D Map of the Cosmos

January 13, 2022 by aberti

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 13 January 2022

Department of Energy Awards Berkeley Lab’s Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Its Prestigious Project Management Excellence Award

October 29, 2021 by aberti

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 28 October 2021

Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run

May 21, 2021 by almagonzalez

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 17 May 2021

Building a Giant 2D Map of the Universe to Prepare for the Largest 3D Map

January 14, 2021 by sgontcho

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 13 January 2021

Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy

June 3, 2020 by pfagrelius

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 June 2020

DESI Opens Its 5,000 Eyes to Capture the Colors of the Cosmos

November 5, 2019 by geroberts

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 28 October 2019

VIDEO: The Making of the Largest 3D Map of the Universe

October 1, 2019 by geroberts

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 12 April 2019

Topping Off a Telescope with New Tools to Explore Dark Energy

October 1, 2019 by geroberts

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 4 December 2018

VIDEO: 5,000 Robots Merge to Map the Universe in 3D

October 1, 2019 by geroberts

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 17 October 2018

Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See the Night Sky for the First Time

April 9, 2019 by lbearson

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 3 April 2019

Mapping the universe in 3-D: Fermilab contributes to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

August 13, 2018 by lbearson

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 13 August 2018

Solving the Dark Energy Mystery: A New Assignment for a 45-Year-Old Telescope

February 12, 2018 by lbearson

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 12 February 2018

Creating a World of Make-Believe to Better Understand the Real Universe

December 14, 2017 by lbearson

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 14 December 2017