DOE Approves Construction of 3-D Galaxy-Mapping Project 'DESI'
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 14:51
in Astronomy & Space
A 3-D sky-mapping project that will measure the light of 35 million cosmic objects has received formal approval from the Department of Energy to move forward with construction. Installation of the project, called Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), is set to begin next year at the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, with observations starting up in January 2019.