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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...