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Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls into View from NSF's NOIRLab in Chile

This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF’ ....

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Giant Comet Found in Outer Solar System by Dark Energy Survey

Giant Comet Found in Outer Solar System by Dark Energy Survey
Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the unusual wandering body will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031
Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Bernardinelli Array G. Bernstein (UPenn)/DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. Music by Zero-project :Through the Looking Glass (zero-project.gr) Acknowledgments: T.A. Rector, M. Zamani & J. Miller
Zooming on Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. This zoom shows an image from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) composed of some of the discovery exposures showing Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein collected by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. ....

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Shining a New Light on Dark Energy

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Elliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared with spiral galaxies (one of which is to the left) which have more flocculent structure interwoven with dust.
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Credit: DES/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/DOE/AURA
Acknowledgments: Image processing: DES, Jen Miller (Gemini Observatory/NSF s NOIRLab), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin
The Dark Energy Survey has released a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of work. Containing data on nearly 700 million astronomical objects, this second data release in the Survey s seven-year history is the topic of sessions today and tomorrow at the 237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.[1] ....

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