DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :) I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭 @desisurvey.bsky.social
Dreia Carrillo
@dreiacarrillo.bsky.social
Filipina Galactic Archaeologist | Assistant Professor at Carleton College
An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky! DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/04/15/d...
DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and will continue.
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Finally made a Blue Sky account! Also yay read our paper on the destruction of my favorite galaxy!
Published in #MNRAS: "From order to chaos: the blurred out metallicity gradient of the Gaia-Enceladus/Sausage progenito", Carrillo et al. This is Fig. 4: please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com