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Doubling the Number of Known Gravitational Lenses Machine learning key to discovery of over 1200 gravitational lenses CosmoView Episode 19: Doubling the Number of Known Gravitational Lenses KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey Gravitational lenses found in the DESI Legacy Survey data. Examples of gravitational lenses found in the DESI Legacy Survey data. KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey Gravitational lens found in the DESI Legacy Survey data. An example of a gravitat...

Loading video... VIDEO: This is CosmoView Episode 18 for press release noirlab2103: Giant Map of the Sky Sets Stage for Ambitious DESI Survey view more  Credit: Images and Videos: KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey, P. Marenfeld, D. Munizaga, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Music: Stellardrone - Airglow. Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have created the largest ever map of the sky, comprising over a b...

Building a Giant 2D Map of the Universe to Prepare for the Largest 3D Map Nearly 200 researchers pitched in to gather, process, and stitch together images for half of the sky to prepare for the start of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s observations January 13, 2021 82 Shares This video describes the monumental effort that went into constructing a 2D map of the universe to prepare for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which will produce the largest-ever 3D map of the universe...