Optical Surveys
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Research Projects
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Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
DESI is the heart of a ground-based survey that will spend the first half of the next decade pinpointing the locations and spectra of up to 35 million galaxies and 2.4 million quasars across one-third of the night sky. -
Dark Energy Survey
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a large survey of distant galaxies that aims to unravel the mystery of cosmic acceleration. -
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST) is a mission designed to study dark energy, the evolution of galaxies, and the populations of extrasolar planets. -
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is a planned 10-year survey of the southern sky that will take place at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on the El Peñon peak of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile. -
Via
The Via Project is using the Milky Way galaxy as a laboratory to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Via will conduct an all-sky survey of stars using the 6.5-meter MMT (Arizona) and Magellan (Chile) telescopes.
