University of Michigan to help build next-generation dark energy probe

Update to blog post of Thursday, September 5, 2013 ( http://lowbrows.blogspot.com/2013/09/we-may-be-able-to-watch-dark-energy.html )

University of Michigan to help build next-generation dark energy probe
By Aimee Balfe (Department of Astronomy) and Carol Rabuck (Department of Physics)

University of Michigan scientists and students will build components of a giant camera that will map 30 million galaxies' worth of the universe in three dimensions.

The camera is officially known as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and it's designed to help answer one of the most puzzling scientific questions of our time: Why is the expansion of the universe accelerating?

To read the rest of the article, go to: http://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-help-build-next-generation-dark-energy-probe