Undergraduate HETDEX Researcher wins Scholarship
January 3, 2023
Isaiah Pipkin, University of Texas at Austin Physics and Astronomy undergraduate, won the TEAM-UP Together Award. It was given this year to 31 African American Students from across the country in physics and astronomy. TEAM-UP Together is a collective action initiative […]
Read MoreUniversity of Texas scientists use dating app tech to locate distant galaxies, dark energy
December 12, 2022
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Researchers at the University of Texas are turning to some rather unusual tech to locate distant galaxies. “I’ve been calling it Astro Tinder for a long time,” said UT Professor of Astrophysics Karl Gebhardt. Gebhardt is part […]
Read MoreHETDEX 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 MoreVolunteers Help Identify Nearly a Quarter-Million Galaxies
December 2, 2022
Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to help in their quest. Now they hope to significantly scale up their volunteer force for a unique project that could […]
Read MoreThe Active Galactic Nuclei in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX)
April 29, 2022
We present the first Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) catalog in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment Survey (HETDEX) observed between January 2017 and June 2020. HETDEX is an ongoing spectroscopic survey with no pre-selection based on magnitudes, colors or morphologies, […]
Read MoreHETDEX and the ‘Quest for the Rest’
March 18, 2021
“The hundreds of billions of galaxies it contains, each of them home to billions of stars, planets, and moons as well as massive star-and-planet-forming clouds of gas and dust, and all of the visible light and other energy we can […]
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 […]
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