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The beam on the left is filled with moving blue orbs and the beam on the right is filled with two larger orbs containing small galaxy depictions." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152605' aria-label='View all articles of type: Mysteries of Matter'>Mysteries of Matter</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/12/13/newly-released-roadmap-for-particle-physics-includes-support-for-berkeley-lab-projects/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="grid" title="Experiment to Capture Universe’s Earliest Moments Reaches Funding Milestone" date="October 26, 2023" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/10/26/experiment-to-capture-universes-earliest-moments-reaches-funding-milestone/" link-target="_self" text="The National Science Foundation has awarded up to $21.4 million for the design of telescopes for CMB-S4, an international experiment that will study the cosmic microwave background and help us understand the beginning, history, and makeup of the universe" > <lbl-image slot="media" > <img width="890" height="594" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Left_DSC06656_Geoff_Chen_crop_sm-890x594.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="Telescopes at the South Pole against starry skies." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152606' aria-label='View all articles of type: Cosmic Frontiers'>Cosmic Frontiers</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/10/26/experiment-to-capture-universes-earliest-moments-reaches-funding-milestone/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="grid" title="New Map of Space Precisely Measures Nearly 400,000 Nearby Galaxies" date="October 18, 2023" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/10/18/new-map-of-space-precisely-measures-nearly-400000-nearby-galaxies/" link-target="_self" text="The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be an invaluable tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter, and the structure of our universe" > <lbl-image slot="media" > <img width="890" height="612" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ngc520_20230916_TAR-CC4-890x612.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="NGC 520, one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152606' aria-label='View all articles of type: Cosmic Frontiers'>Cosmic Frontiers</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/10/18/new-map-of-space-precisely-measures-nearly-400000-nearby-galaxies/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="grid" title="Listening to the Radio on the Far Side of the Moon" date="September 26, 2023" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/09/26/listening-to-the-radio-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/" link-target="_self" text="LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment" > <lbl-image slot="media" > <img width="890" height="612" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lander-firefly-aerospace-890x612.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152606' aria-label='View all articles of type: Cosmic Frontiers'>Cosmic Frontiers</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/09/26/listening-to-the-radio-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="grid" title="DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly Two Million Objects" date="June 13, 2023" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/06/13/desi-early-data-release-holds-nearly-two-million-objects/" link-target="_self" text="The first batch of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is now available for researchers to mine. Taken during the experiment’s “survey validation” phase, the data include distant galaxies and quasars as well as stars in our own Milky Way" > <lbl-image slot="media" > <img width="816" height="540" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Optimized_EDR-4K_1_816x540px_10fps.gif" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="A 3D map of space, with streams of light pointing in different directions from a central focal point. Researchers took detailed images in 20 different directions on the sky, creating a 3D map of 700,000 objects and covering roughly 1% of the total volume DESI will study." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152606' aria-label='View all articles of type: Cosmic Frontiers'>Cosmic Frontiers</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/06/13/desi-early-data-release-holds-nearly-two-million-objects/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="grid" title="New DESI Planetarium Show to Premiere in Spring 2023" date="February 27, 2023" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/02/27/new-desi-planetarium-show-to-premier-in-2023/" link-target="_self" text="“5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI” presents a fly-through of the project’s first year of data" > <lbl-image slot="media" > <img width="890" height="594" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DESI-Kitt-Peak-photo-Marilyn-Sargent-4web.jpg" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) atop Kitt Peak." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152606' aria-label='View all articles of type: Cosmic Frontiers'>Cosmic Frontiers</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/02/27/new-desi-planetarium-show-to-premier-in-2023/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> <lbl-grid-card layout="grid" title="Lost Video of Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang Theory, Recovered" date="January 26, 2023" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/01/26/georges-lemaitre-video-recovered/" link-target="_self" text="European broadcast network VRT found a 20-minute recording that is thought to be the only video of Lemaître. His interview, originally aired in 1964 and conducted in French, has now been transcribed and translated into English by physicists at Berkeley Lab and the Vatican Observatory." > <lbl-image slot="media" > <img width="785" height="565" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-20-at-6.43.08-PM.png" class="attachment-lbl-components-md size-lbl-components-md" alt="Still frame from a black and white video that shows Georges Lemaître, a man with short hair and glasses, at the end of the interview." slot="media" decoding="async" /> </lbl-image> <lbl-tags icon='article' slot='byline'><ul><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?type=article' aria-label='View all articles of type: Article'>Article</a></li><li><a href='https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/?topic=152606' aria-label='View all articles of type: Cosmic Frontiers'>Cosmic Frontiers</a></li></ul></lbl-tags> <lbl-button slot="btn" type="inline" link-url="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2023/01/26/georges-lemaitre-video-recovered/" link-target="_blank" text="Read the article" > </lbl-button> </lbl-grid-card> </lbl-grid> <lbl-container no-container-padding-bottom> <nav class="navigation pagination" aria-label="Posts"> <h2 class="screen-reader-text">Posts navigation</h2> <div class="nav-links"><span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current">1</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/page/2/?topic=152606">2</a> <a class="next page-numbers" href="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/all-news/page/2/?topic=152606">></a></div> </nav> </lbl-container> </lbl-container> </article> </div> </main> </div> </div> </div>  <lbl-bottom-footer></lbl-bottom-footer>  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-NBLMGLR');</script>  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://newscenter.lbl.gov/wp-content/themes/lbl-theme/dist/bundle.js?ver=3.0.8" id="lbl-theme-script-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery('.soliloquy-container').removeClass('no-js'); </script> </div> </body> </html>

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