A glittering diagonal group of glowing yellow galaxies shine out of the image filled with glowing points of light.

DECam’s Deep View of Abell 3667 Illuminates the Past of a Galaxy Cluster and the Future of Astronomical Imaging

An actively merging galaxy cluster is featured in this image assembled from a total of 28 hours of observations with ...
An overall red glittery image with a dark back crack running diagonally through it.

Circinus West: A Dark Nebula Harboring a Nest of Newly Formed Stars

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated ...
Three images side by side of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that reside in a region of space isolated from the environmental influence of larger objects.

DECam and Gemini South Discover Three Tiny ‘Stellar-Ghost-Town’ Galaxies

By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ultra-faint dwarf ...
Artist Illustration of Early-Universe Quasar Cosmic Neighborhood

DECam Confirms that Early-Universe Quasar Neighborhoods are Indeed Cluttered

Observations using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) confirm astronomers’ expectation that early-Universe quasars formed in regions of space densely populated ...
A multitude of stars and galaxies on a dark background. In the center are two brighter galaxies with a yellow glow around them.

Queen Berenice II’s Hair Tied Together by Dark Matter

The Dark Energy Camera captures an image of the dazzling Coma Cluster, named after the hair of Queen Berenice II ...