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#DESimages 🥏 (edge-on galaxy, credit: Erin Sheldon) ... See MoreSee Less

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The Dark Energy Survey

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #womeninscienceToday is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! To celebrate, we throwback to this day 2 years ago with this amazing mosaic picture of the Blanco Telescope made with photographs of many of the women of DES. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEMYou can read about many of these women on the DES Scientist of the week page: www.darkenergysurvey.org/education/scientist-of-the-week/Mosaic made by DES scientist Antonella Palmese (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory). Based on a similar project by The Athena X-ray Observatory. ... See MoreSee Less

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The Dark Energy Survey

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Great article on DES Director Rich Kron!Astronomy & Astrophysics Professor Richard Kron will retire from the University of Chicago this year, after over four decades in service of mapping the universe. His legacy includes helping to conceive and lead one of the most influential projects to map the sky, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as well as the creation of the astrophysics major at UChicago and the project to digitize and explore the scientific potential of 100-year-old photographic images of the sky from the Yerkes Observatory. physicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/article/four-decades-and-millions-of-stars-later-sloan-digital... ... See MoreSee Less

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The Dark Energy Survey

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🤩Behold the Southern Pinwheel galaxy in glorious detail!This is one of the deepest images ever taken of the spiral galaxy, combining over 11.3 hours of observations by the Dark Energy Camera, which was built by the US Department of Energy and is mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab.Also known as Messier 83, this stunning face-on spiral galaxy is located about 15 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydra.Its spiral arms are lined with dark lanes of dust and peppered with reddish clouds of hydrogen gas where new stars are being born.Numerous background galaxies, which lie much farther away than Messier 83, appear around the edges of the image.Find out more about this image at: ow.ly/Uukr50DuAAJCredit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAAcknowledgment: M. Soraisam (University of Illinois)Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin#NOIRLab #NSFstories #Astronomy #Space #Universe #DiscoverTogether #CTIO ... See MoreSee Less

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