World’s most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy

Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth

Credit:

Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

About the Image

Id:noao1204c
Type:Collage
Release date:Sept. 17, 2012
Related releases:noao1204
Size:2560 x 1362 px

About the Object

Category:Cosmology

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