A graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Claire Lamman studies the orientations and alignments of galaxies and what they can tell us about cosmology and the cosmic web. She is also a talented artist and the recipient of a National Academies of Sciences Excellence in Science Communication Award for work that includes the […]

by Andrea Muñoz Gutiérrez On 20 June 2024, the DESI planetarium show “5000 Eyes” premiered in Mexico City at the Luis Enrique Erro Planetarium. Previously shown in traveling planetariums across the country, it is now, for the first time, part of the regular programming at the oldest planetarium in the nation. Authorities from several DESI […]

Over the past two weeks, we released another batch of supporting papers of fundamental importance for the ongoing DESI DR1 release. In particular, we present six new supporting papers within the category  DESI 2024 II: Sample definitions, characteristics, and two-point clustering statistics. These papers are: Paper 1: Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for Data from […]