An international group of scientists from universities in various parts of the world known as the Dark Energy Survey had a Dark Energy Camera built in order to find out what dark energy is. Dark energy has been posited to be the reason for the universe’s expanding faster and faster. DECam took its first pictures of the southern sky recently. DECam is a 570 MP camera that will have 74 charge-coupled devices. These are made to be sensitive to the redshifted light from distant galaxies and stars.
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Scientists Turn Big Honking Camera Loose on Dark Energy Quest
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 19, 2012 05:00 AMAn international group of scientists from universities in various parts of the world known as the Dark Energy Survey had a Dark Energy Camera built in order to find out what dark energy is. Dark energy has been posited to be the reason for the universe’s expanding faster and faster. DECam took its first pictures of the southern sky recently. DECam is a 570 MP camera that will have 74 charge-coupled devices. These are made to be sensitive to the redshifted light from distant galaxies and stars.