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Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey took two years to conclude. 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 Chile.
A citizen scientist investigated NSF's NOIRLab's library of 4 billion celestial objects, NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2, to discover brown dwarfs with
"This amazing result clearly demonstrates that NOIRLab's data archive has a reach far beyond that of professional astronomers."
Last Updated: Stunning Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Captured By Dark Energy Camera In All Its Glory; Watch With the help of DECam, an observatory in northern Chile captured a stunning view of Messier 83, also known as the Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel galaxy. With the help of Dark Energy Camera (DECam), an observatory in northern Chile captured a stunning view of Messier 83, also known as the Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel. Astro Data Archive at the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) Program at NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research (NOIR) Lab captured the image of the S...