The Circinus West molecular cloud has been captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam). DECam is mounted on the ...

The Dark Energy Camera does more than its name would lead you to believe. The Dark Energy Camera, or DECam, peers deep into space from its mount on the 4-meter Victor Blanco Telescope high in the ...

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) puts it into perspective right away: "Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth." It's important ...

A beautiful image showing two interacting galaxies has been captured by a camera originally designed to study dark energy. The two galaxies in this image, NGC 1512 and NGC 1510, are part of an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) the colliding galaxy ...

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the faintest type of galaxy in the Universe. Typically containing just a few hundred to a thousand stars — compared with the hundreds of billions that make up the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a dense stellar nursery packed with infant stars in a vast "cosmic ink blot." The team made the discovery using one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world: the ...

An astonishing number of celestial objects were captured in unprecedented detail by an instrument built by the United States Department of Energy at the NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in ...

The Lobster Nebula shines in a sea of stars, thanks to a commemorative image from a telescope located nowhere near water. From this location, DECam has spent the last ten years scanning the sky from ...

Countless images of galaxies have been snapped over the decades, but thanks to ever-advancing imaging technology, they just keep getting better and better. A new photo of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy ...

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