Its aim is to help us understand the past and future of the universe.

We reported on the project all the way back in 2016 when the team of scientists launched 5,000 small robots into space to help develop the first map of the universe beyond earth.

However, that wasn't the end of the DESI team's inputs to the telescope. “It’s constant work that goes on to this instrument perform,” concluded physicist Klaus Honscheid of Ohio State University, co-instrument scientist on the project.

It is work that has paid off well providing a never-before-seen map that will one day help us understand the past and future of the universe.