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Tag: Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

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

DESI project management and engineering team posed for a group photo.

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

An image showing the light readings that DESI takes from the Andromeda galaxy

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

Screenshot - A spiral galaxy, viewed with the Sky Viewer tool. (Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys)

Lab Researcher and Physics Undergrad Shares Poster Project Honoring Black Physicists

Collage - A collage showing the first six posters in Ana Lyons' series honoring black physicists. (Credit: Ana Lyons)

Natalie Roe Named Berkeley Lab’s Associate Director for Physical Sciences 

Image - Natalie Roe

VIDEOS: Science Collaborations Find a Way During COVID-19 Pandemic

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

Image - In this rendering, a cutaway view of the Mayall Telescope shows the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. (Credit: Dongjae “Krystofer” Kim/Kryated.com, DESI collaboration)

DESI Team Prepares for Telescope Instrument’s Restart after Unexpected Shutdown

Photo - DESI is installed within the dome of the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab)

Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses

Images - The colorized images, identified in the study as possible gravitational lenses, in side-by-side comparisons with more recent Hubble Space Telescope images (black and white). (Credits: Hubble Space Telescope, Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey)

Looking Up From the Mountaintop: Q&A With a Telescope Instrument’s Lead Observer

Photo - Satya Gontcho A Gontcho

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

DESI first spectra

3 Sky Surveys Completed in Preparation for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Photo - Bok and Mayall telescopes at Kitt Peak