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

'We may be able to watch dark energy turn on': U-M involved in unprecedented sky survey

"Through the Dark Energy Survey, which began Aug. 31, more than 200 researchers from 25 institutions, including U-M, will search for answers to a fundamental question about the cosmos: Why is its expansion speeding up?"

This is a paragraph from the University of Michigan news service article "'We may be able to watch dark energy turn on': U-M involved in unprecedented sky survey." This survey, if successful, may shed light on the nature of the mysterious dark energy.

http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/21661-we-may-be-able-to-watch-dark-energy-turn-on-u-m-involved-in-unprecedented-sky-survey