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  "id": 6151841,
  "title": "The DESI legacy imaging survey releases the largest 2D map of the universe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/the-desi-legacy-imaging-survey-releases-the-largest-2d-map-of-the",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-07T16:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-desi-legacy-imaging-survey-largest.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In 2012, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was commissioned to measure the effect of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the expansion of the cosmos. Since then, the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys have obtained optical images of tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, including through NOIRLab's Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). In…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}