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Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Press Releases
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) released
the largest digital color image of the sky ever made at
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217th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting
held on January 9-13, 2011 in Seattle, WA. AAS
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The SDSS-III collaboration announced on January 11, 2011
the publication of Data Release Eight (DR8), which can
be found at www.sdss3.org/dr8.
The SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research
Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III
Collaboration, including JINA Participation Group.
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological
Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago, and Adler
Planetarium hosted the 10th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop
(GLCW X) from June 14th - 16th, 2010 in Chicago, IL. As is tradition,
the Workshop provided a forum for advanced graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty from the Great
Lakes region working on all areas of cosmology and particle-astrophysics.
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A new release of the Quasar Catalog complete through DR7. Click here.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will map one-quarter of the entire sky and perform a redshift survey of galaxies, quasars and stars. The DR7 is the seventh major data release and provides images, imaging catalogs, spectra, and redshifts for download. It is the third and final data release of SDSS-II, an extension of the original SDSS consisting of three subprojects: The Legacy Survey, SEGUE and a Supernova survey. Read
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An overview reference for SEGUE. Click here.
Colors of Quasars Reveal a Dusty Universe: The vast expanses
of intergalactic space appear to be filled with a haze
of tiny, smoke-like "dust" particles that dim the light
from distant objects and subtly change their colors, according
to a team of astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(SDSS-II). More
SDSS-III, a program of four new surveys using SDSS facilities, began observations in July 2008, and will continue through 2014.
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An International Symposium on Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Asteroids to Cosmology was held from August 15 to 18, 2008 in Downtown Chicago, USA. Website
New measurements reveal slimmer Milky Way.
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Dark energy, the Milky Way galaxy and giant planets: Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues.
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SDSS reveals hidden population of powerful black holes. Details
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The Milky Way has a double halo. Read more
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A giant astronomical survey completes its mission: A new mission begins.
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Road Map of the Sky now comes with pictures: Drawing on 20 terabytes of data gathered over the last eight years, two scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) helped develop a tool that allows internet users to "step into their virtual backyard" and view images of hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies.
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SDSS-II releases 10 terabytes of data to the public: One of the largest catalogs of the universe — a "Road Map of the Sky" — was made public by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), in the survey's sixth public data release (DR6).
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With the prospect of finding dozens of new dwarf systems in our Local Group of galaxies, an international team of researchers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) has moved the count ahead with the discovery of seven — and perhaps eight — new satellites of the Milky Way. Details
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Gravity helps SDSS-II reveal a brilliant jewel of the early universe. More
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How big is big? Probing the conditions of the universe on the largest scales. Details
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New Milky Way companions found: SDSS-II first to view two dim
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) announced
discoveries of two new faint companion galaxies to the Milky
Way. More
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SDSS-II Supernova Survey explodes with new findings.
The population of supernovae - exploding stars in distant galaxies -- has exploded here on Earth with an unprecedented number of new discoveries logged in just 90 days by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II).
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The extension of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(SDSS-II) announced in an International Astronomical Union Circular
the discovery of five supernovae on September 19. This is the
start of a multi-year program that will discover several hundred
supernovae and use them to estimate properties of dark matter
and dark energy. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
(JINA) based at the University of Notre Dame is partner in the
SDSS-II effort.
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A New Survey - SDSS-II will map the Universe, the Milky Way
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Der Sloan Digital Sky Survey geht weiter - das Astrophysikalische
Institut Potsdam beteiligt sich Read
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