Dark Energy Survey

Overview

The Dark Energy Survey mapped hundreds of millions of galaxies from Cerro Tololo to probe the nature of cosmic acceleration.

Observing bands

Knowledge connections

• Conducted byCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
• ObservesVisible light
• ObservesNear-infrared
• MeasuresStructure Formation
• MeasuresDark Energy
• MeasuresLarge-Scale Structure

Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

• NSF NOIRLabNSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory

  Ground-based optical/infrared observatory data and imagery.