The Dark Energy Survey

DES uses the Blanco Telescope to peer out into the night sky.

Want to see more images of Blanco and the telescope site? Check out the DES Photo Gallery: http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/multimedia/photo-gallery/

Unlike most stars, white dwarfs don’t support their weight by fusion. Electrons quantum mechanically hold the weight of the star by Pauli’s Exclusion Principle. ‪#‎DarkBites‬ http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/education/darkbites/

How bright is this galaxy? Answering that enables new science but also opens a whole can of worms. ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ -- Michael Brown @mjibrown

I recently attended a seminar, by Scott Dodelson, on the grand plan for understanding the nature of dark energy. It was clear that combining the results from DES and the CMB experiments will be very important in disentangling the many physics effects now complicating a robust determination of our underlying cosmology. ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ -- Eve Kovacs (Argonne National Laboratory)

Κατά την διάρκεια της ζωής σας, υπολογίζεται ότι ένα αστέρι του Γαλαξίας μας θα ανατινάχθεί. ‪#‎DarkBites‬ http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/education/darkbites/ -- Translated by Andreas Papadopoulos (European University Cyprus)

我们大概需要一生的时间，才能等到一颗银河系恒星走到生命的终点，爆发成绚烂的超新星。‪#‎DarkBites‬ http://bit.ly/1XKxQHP --Translated by Yuanyuan Zhang (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Durante el periodo de duración de la vida de una persona, se puede esperar la explosión de una estrella en la Vía Láctea. ‪#‎DarkBites‬ http://bit.ly/1XKxQHP

Las instituciones de DES basadas en el "Nuevo Mundo" (en este caso América y Oceanía) y aquéllas basadas en el "Viejo Mundo" (Europa) empataron 0-0 durante el primer tiempo del tradicional partido de fútbol que se juega en cada reunión de DES. El resultado final fue 0-2 a favor del "Viejo Mundo", ¡pero el "Nuevo Mundo" espera contar con nuevas "contrataciones" (investigadores postdoctorales) para el próximo partido! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6OZCFV6RTU&sns=em ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ --Translated by Andrés Plazas (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology - Caltech)

Good to meet many old and some new colleagues at the DES collaboration meeting last week. Some discussions are much easier face to face. ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ -- Joerg Dietrich @joergdietrich (Univeristy Observatory Munich)

In your lifetime, you can expect about one star to blow up in the Milky Way. ‪#‎DarkBites‬ http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/education/darkbites/

The "New World" institutions held the "Old World" to a nil-nil tie for
the first half of the semi-annual DES Collaboration soccer match. The Old World eventually pulled through to win 2-0, but the New World is expecting some key post-doctoral acquisitions before the next Collaboration Meeting. ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6OZCFV6RTU&sns=em -- Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Attending the DES Collaboration Meeting at SLAC last week, I was excited to see how much progress my colleagues are making in so many different areas of research ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ -- Kyler Kuehn @kwkuehn (AAO)

Want more ‪#‎DarkBites‬? Now you can find them all! http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/education/darkbites/

Want to learn more about new DES science? Look no further than The DArchive http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/news-and-results/darchives/

Darkness is falling ... check out our new website! http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/

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This week I've been working on new features and upgrades for the DES tool that allows access to the database of millions of objects ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ -- Matias Carrasco Kind (National Center for Supercomputing Applications - NCSA)

Dark energy didn’t always dominate the universe’s composition. It was only ~3.9 billion years ago that the universe went from matter to DE dominated. Our sun is older than that! ‪#‎DarkBites‬

When I went observing for DES, I was able to meet a lot of great astronomers and telescope staff, see the southern sky and Magellanic Clouds with my own eyes for the first time, and was lucky enough to catch the Geminids too- thanks DES! ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ -- Dale Mudd (The Ohio State University)

Es asombroso como una mezcla de líneas de código, unos cuantos computadores y muchas personas inteligentes logren hacer que la imagen de la izquierda se convierta en la imagen de la derecha. http://bit.ly/23gT4fy ‪#‎DEST4TD‬

El Telescopio Espacial Hubble es capaz de tomar imágenes muy nítidas y detalladas, pero el gran campo de visión de DECam es ideal para explorar grandes porciones del cielo de una manera rápida.http://bit.ly/1SGvdkD #DEST4TD ‪#‎MLDES‬ -- Translated by Andrés Plazas (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology - Caltech)

Das Universum ist vor allem 'leer'. Man erwartet im Durchschnitt nur ein paar wenige Atome in einem Volumen eines Kühlschrankes zu finden. http://bit.ly/1TnqiES ‪#‎DarkBites‬

Es ist schlicht beeindruckend, dass ein bisschen Computercode, ein paar Computer und viele kluge Köpfe das linke Bild so analysieren können, dass es aussieht wie das Rechte http://bit.ly/23gT4fy ‪#‎DEST4TD‬ ‪#‎MLDES‬ -- Translated by Claudio Bruderer (ETH Zürich)