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SmartMoves™ Spotlights: University of California Observatories

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How did galaxies form? What is "dark matter"? How old is the universe ? Is the universe expanding and picking up speed? Helping to solve such mysteries of the universe and its origin is one of the driving goals of astronomers working for University of California Observatories (UCO), a Multi-Campus Research Unit of the University of
California (UC).


As part of their quest, the UCO team is working on creating the first comprehensive map of the distant universe. Called the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP), this multi-year program uses twin 10-m W.M. Keck Telescopes located in Hawaii, the Lick Observatory on top of Mount Hamilton in California, and the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to conduct its survey of distant and faint galaxies.

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