Dark Energy Camera Publishes First Photos | Talking Points Memo

You haven’t seen anything like this before. Nobody on Earth has.

Astronomers on Monday released the first batch of images taken by an enormous, skyward looking camera situated in the Chilean Andes, known as the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was designed to solve one of the greatest cosmic mysteries: Why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.


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