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DESI's Dizzying Results

17 pointsby beltertoday at 5:39 PM3 commentsview on HN

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swiftcodertoday at 8:18 PM

> They’re aiming for 50 million galaxies once the survey is complete... Sure, the DESI survey is less than 1% of all the galaxies in the observable volume of the cosmos

That just broke my brain. Had to look it up. 2+ trillion galaxies in the observable universe? That puts things in perspective all right

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jgalt212today at 9:26 PM

I wish there was a prediction market for dark energy: real or fudge factor.