ArticleCosmic Frontiers Key Takeaways The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration has publicly released the first 13 months of data from its main survey — a treasure trove that will help other researchers investigate big questions in astrophysics. Although DESI’s Data Release 1 is only a fraction of what the experiment will capture, the 270-terabyte dataset holds a vast amount of information, including precise distances to millions of galaxies. DESI’s data release contains more than t...