Outreach
New Planetarium show - '5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI'
June 13, 2023
Observational Cosmology GroupA stunning documentary film featuring recent discoveries from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has been released to planetariums worldwide. A catalan version of this new documentary has been produced by the ERC COSMO-LYA project in collaboration with the UAB.
5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI is a new feature-length planetarium show created in collaboration with DESI‘s consortium of worldwide collaborators, a dedicated group of scientists and engineers who are creating the most complete map of our universe.
The 22-minute planetarium film provides a rare glimpse into modern cosmology by introducing viewers to DESI researchers and featuring original footage of the telescope and interviews with DESI scientists from all over the world.
Andreu Font-Ribera features in the documentary and, together with his collaborators, has produced the catalan version of the documentary in the context of the ERC COSMO-LYA project and in collaboraion with the UAB.
The documentary has been premiered in the Planetari de Granollers and the Centre Astronòmic del Pedraforca . The show was accompanied by an outreach talk.
On July 6th and August 3rd 2023 the documentary will be shown in Cosmocaixa together with a talk. Andreu Font-Ribera will give the talk on July 3rd.
The film’s exciting conclusion is a fly-through of DESI’s first year of data. The positions of over 14 million extra-galactic objects are visualized in 3D for the first time, revealing the largest structures in the universe as never seen before.