Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission

International collaboration co-founded by the University of Portsmouth finished mapping a 5,000-square-degree area of the sky in a quest to understand dark energy.

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Helping visually impaired children to ‘feel’ the Universe

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Big turnout for night of science and stargazing

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RAS Eddington Prize awarded to Prof Claudia Maraston

Portsmouth researcher wins prestigious award

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Cosmic Gold

Portsmouth researchers herald new era of gravitational wave astronomy

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Map of the cosmos ‘sees’ the dark Universe

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Applications open for Fellowships at the ICG

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