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April 2013
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April 29, 2013signal to background: Dark Energy Survey launches new photo blogScientists on the Dark Energy Survey share weekly photos taken by and of the world’s most powerful digital camera.
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April 9, 2013day in the life: Arturo Gomez: Life among the telescopesArturo Gomez has spent more than 40 years working with visiting astronomers at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
March 2013
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March 27, 2013signal to background: Astronomers give Dark Energy Camera rave reviewsEven before the Dark Energy Survey begins, the Dark Energy Camera is exceeding expectations in the astrophysics community.
January 2013
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January 28, 2013feature: Illuminating the dark universeThe pursuit of dark matter and dark energy is one of the most exciting—and most challenging—areas of science. Now researchers think they’re beginning to close in.
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January 22, 2013essay: A galaxy with a viewA physicist, a software developer and a writer step outside one night to take in nature’s beauty at a mountaintop observatory in Chile.
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January 2, 2013editorial: The discoveries continueThe discoveries of 2012 point the way to more exciting physics in 2013 and the decades beyond.
December 2012
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December 5, 2012breaking: Scientists propose new projects to unravel dark energy secretsScientists have risen to the challenge to design an experiment that will make measurements of millions of galaxies to probe dark energy in new ways.
September 2012
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September 17, 2012breaking: World’s most powerful digital camera records first imagesThe Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel camera mounted on a telescope in Chile, achieved first light on Sept. 12.
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September 5, 2012feature: The Dark Energy Camera opens its eyesA long-awaited device that will help unravel one of the universe’s most compelling mysteries gets ready to see first light.
December 2011
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December 20, 2011breaking: U.S. ships world’s largest digital camera to ChileA four-ton digital camera landed safely in Chile this month on its way to making history by enabling the world’s largest galaxy survey, starting next year. Getting the camera there was a worldwide feat of technology and transportation prowess.
May 2011
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May 1, 2011deconstruction: Dark Energy Camera goes to ChileDoing big science takes big effort and big cooperation. Building and installing one of the world''s largest digital cameras to conduct the most extensive galaxy survey to date requires scientists and manufacturers from across the globe. Researchers from 26 institutions enlisted the help of 129 companies in the United States and about half a dozen foreign ones to fabricate the often one-of-a-kind components for the Dark Energy Camera.
April 2011
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April 16, 2011breaking: Dark Energy Camera ready for shipping to ChileBuilding and installing one of the world’s largest digital cameras to solve the mystery of dark energy requires the collaboration of scientists and industry from across the globe. The Dark Energy Survey’s combination of survey area and depth will far surpass the scope of previous projects and provide researchers for the first time with four search techniques in one powerful instrument.
November 2010
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November 22, 2010breaking: A camera's odysseyComponents of a fragile, multi-ton, one-of-a-kind camera have begun making the trek from the windswept Illinois prairie to the barren mountaintop of Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes.
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November 11, 2010breaking: Giant sky-scanning digital camera taking shapeScientists are close to completing the Dark Energy Camera, a monster, 570-megapixel camera that will enable the world's largest galaxy survey.
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November 9, 2010breaking: Fermilab physicist transforms dark energy lens into dark matter detectorA Fermilab physicist recently took technology used to search for signs of dark energy and transformed it into the best detector in the world for spotting low-mass dark matter particles.
April 2010
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April 1, 2010signal to background: A recycling tale that's hard to topThere's luck, and then there is LUCK. Brenna Flaugher has the latter.
August 2009
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August 1, 2009feature: Superconducting technology, Chicago styleFermilab is cooking up a hot technology—and the serving is ultracold. The laboratory is stepping up efforts to develop and test superconducting radio-frequency cavities, a key technology for the next generation of particle accelerators and the future of particle physics.
May 2009
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May 12, 2009breaking: Crafting the camera's eyesWith a surgeon's precision, Fermilab technician Michelle Jonas cuts a one-millimeter square of tape that helps hold in place a charge-coupled device, or CCD, which acts like digitized film on a camera. What she is handling is as vital to the dark energy camera as a retina is to the human eye.
May 2007
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May 1, 2007feature: The search for dark energyWhat is this stuff that fills the vacuum of space, accelerates the expansion of the universe, and accounts for 70 percent of everything? More than two dozen experiments aim to find out.
