The Flood Gates Open Up, and the Majesty of the Cosmos Just Gets Open

With dark energy, once again, it was the development of highly sensitive ccdes and large forma cecires that would allow you to image swaths of the sky every night. Computation has been transformative as well in terms not just the capture of the amount of data, but also the kinds of analysis that we could do with data. For me, what is fascinating is that we really have a grand convergence right now in terms of our theoretical understanding - there's something spectacular that we're finding out.