Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies
began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way
to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly constructed Dark Energy Camera, the
most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it
for the first time.
That light may hold within it the answer to one of the
biggest mysteries in physics – why the expansion of the universe is speeding
up.
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To see the first images captured by the Dark Energy Camera,
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