- ID:
- ivo://sdss.jhu/openskynode/sdss
- Title:
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Short Name:
- SDSS
- Date:
- 05 Dec 2018 19:59:33
- Publisher:
- JHU
- Description:
- This SkyNode points to the latest public SDSS catalog data release available at http://cas.sdss.org/ The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken. The survey will map one-quarter of the entire sky in detail, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of hundreds of millions of celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars. The SDSS addresses fascinating, fundamental questions about the universe. With the survey, astronomers will be able to see the large-scale patterns of galaxies: sheets and voids through the whole universe. Scientists have many ideas about how the universe evolved, and different patterns of large-scale structure point to different theories. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will tell us which theories are right - or whether we will have to come up with entirely new ideas.
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- ID:
- ivo://sdss.jhu/openskynode/SDSSDR5
- Title:
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (DR5)
- Short Name:
- SDSSDR5
- Date:
- 20 Feb 2014 22:00:17
- Publisher:
- JHU
- Description:
- This node contains data from the fifth data release (DR5) of SDSS. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken. The survey will map one-quarter of the entire sky in detail, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of hundreds of millions of celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars. The SDSS addresses fascinating, fundamental questions about the universe. With the survey, astronomers will be able to see the large-scale patterns of galaxies: sheets and voids through the whole universe. Scientists have many ideas about how the universe evolved, and different patterns of large-scale structure point to different theories. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will tell us which theories are right - or whether we will have to come up with entirely new ideas.
