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Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy

Posted by timothy on from the that's-what-my-huge-lenses-do-too dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "UK astronomers, as a part of the Dark Energy Survey collaboration, have reached a milestone in the construction of one of the largest ever cameras to detect dark energy by completing the shipment of the glass required for the five special lenses. Each step in the process of completing this sophisticated camera brings scientists closer to detecting the invisible matter that cosmologists estimate makes up around 75% of our universe."

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  1. Dark Energy Transport by EEPROMS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hurry Quantum boy, get into the dark energy mobile...
    [Presses Big Red Button]
    (((((((((((((((BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM))))))))))))
    Narrative: Somewhere on a distant planet
    Astronomer "Did you see that flash, hah proof dark energy doesn't exist"

  2. Re:Oymoron anyone? by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I see nothing... nothing!" Yup, must be dark energy out there.

  3. Re:Oymoron anyone? by TapeCutter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you sure you removed the world's largest lens cap.

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  4. huge lenses by ouachiski · · Score: 5, Funny

    scientists needing huge optics 8-) whood a thought it

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  5. Pardon The Pun, But... by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I did not find TFA very illuminating. Of course the topic was optically sensing the effects of Dark Energy which doesn't radiate, so maybe I wasn't supposed to be illuminated.

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