Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration just dropped their first official data release, covering the first 13 months of the instrument’s operation.

Dark energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories. The universe is expanding, driven by the unknown force that we've named Dark Energy. Dark Energy is also accelerating the rate of expansion.

Dark energy, this still poorly understood force that accelerates the expansion of the Universe, might be even more intriguing than previously thought. The latest data from the DESI project