Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Now Complete, Telescope Instrument is Poised to Begin Its Search for Answers About Dark Energy
June 02, 2020
June 02, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release:
Even as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, lies dormant within a telescope dome on a mountaintop in Arizona, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DESI project has moved forward in reaching the final formal approval milestone prior to startup.
DESI is designed to gather the light of tens of millions of galaxies, and several million . . .
Even as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, lies dormant within a telescope dome on a mountaintop in Arizona, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the DESI project has moved forward in reaching the final formal approval milestone prior to startup.
DESI is designed to gather the light of tens of millions of galaxies, and several million . . .