By RYAN MORRISON FOR MAILONLINE
The most detailed 3D map of the universe is currently under construction, with astrophysicists unveiling details of the first 7.5 million galaxies out of 35 million.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its first seven months of a survey that is expected to take a total of five years.
An international collaboration of scientists, led by the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, are using the survey to create a ‘phenomenally detailed 3D map’ that will help explain dark energy.
It has so far catalogued over 7.5 million galaxies, and is adding more at about a million a month, on its mission to have a map showing 35 million unique galaxies.
The aim of the project is to shed light on the mysterious dark energy, a force that makes up 68 per cent of the universe and is accelerating its expansion…
