Unique Dark-energy Probe To Measure More Than A Million Galaxies And Quasars
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 19:35
in Astronomy & Space
A unique dark-energy probe called BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is a crucial component of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's third program. Led by physicists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BOSS will use the Sloan 2.5-meter, wide-field telescope in New Mexico to collect and measure more than a million galaxies and quasars.