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satellite and to complete the survey required some 160 clear nights of telescope time. The data enabled a three dimensional computer model of the galaxies to be calculated. The large number of observations makes it possible to study variations in the distribution of the galaxies caused by such
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of 240,000 galaxies in the Southern sky. Redshift is the increase in the wavelength of light emitted by a galaxy caused by its speed of motion away from an observer on Earth, enabling the distance of the galaxy from Earth to be computed according to
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The work was carried out by a core team of 14 Australia-based astronomers led by Chris Blake and including Sarah Brough,
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Dayton, Leigh (20 May 2011). "After study of 240,000 galaxies, dark energy comes to light".
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The underlying purpose of the survey was to improve understanding of the phenomenon of "
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in the distribution of galaxies (“the baryon wiggles”).
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redshift survey
Anglo-Australian Telescope
Siding Spring Observatory
baryon acoustic oscillations
redshift
Hubble's law
AAOmega spectrograph
GALEX
Warrick Couch
Karl Glazebrook
dark energy
Cosmic microwave background
Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Apache Point Observatory
Dark Energy Survey
Blanco telescope
"WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey"
"The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey"
The Australian
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Astronomical surveys
Digitized Sky Survey
The INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey
NGS-POSS
Palomar Distant Solar System Survey

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