HETDEX Graduate Student Featured on CBS
December 8, 2022
UT Graduate Student Lindsay House talks to CBS about the Dark Energy Explorers Citizen Science Project. See the CBS Interview Here Join our Dark Energy Explorers team by classifying HETDEX galaxies as real distant galaxies or fake signals. Download the […]
Read MoreHETDEX Project On Track to Probe Dark Energy
December 30, 2020
Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever. The team will create a three-dimensional map of 2.5 […]
Read More‘Crown Jewels’ Ready for Telescope
June 1, 2020
Sophisticated set of mirrors will sharpen, widen HET’s view of the sky. The “crown jewels” of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope upgrade — a set of four mirrors designed to sharpen the view to pinpoint precision — have been installed on the […]
Read MoreUpgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope Sees First Light
July 30, 2017
Project team prepares to test scientific instruments After several years and a massive team effort, the upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope has achieved “first light,” taking its first images of the sky — a critical step on the path to beginning HETDEX […]
Read MoreUpgraded Telescope Ready to ‘Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe’
April 9, 2017
Astronomers and friends re-dedicated the giant telescope in a ceremony at McDonald Observatory The upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope is “one of the best tools in the world for us to unlock the mysteries of the universe,” McDonald Observatory Director Taft Armandroff […]
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