- Caption:
- The Dark Energy Survey uses a 570-megapixel camera mounted on the Blanco Telescope, at the CTI Observatory in Chile, to image 5,000 square degrees of southern sky. The survey has already discovered more than 1,000 supernovae and mapped millions of galaxies to help us understand the accelerating expansion of our universe.
- Category:
- Detectors and Computing
- Description:
- Dark Energy Survey, Dark Energy Camera, DES, DECAM, Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile
- Names of People Pictured:
- Date
- 10/08/2012
- Image Number (linked to high res image):
- 12-0328-29
- Photographer
- Reidar Hahn
