SDSS - The Largest Colour Image of the Sky Ever Made

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III has released some incredible images of the night sky, and announced plans to image even more. Now, the first catalogues of spectroscopy results...

25 January 2011

By Chris Smith.

Part of the show Antimatter Storms and the Universe's Dark Ages

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Northern Galactic Cap image

Credit:

M. Blanton and the SDSS-III

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III has released some incredible images of the night sky, and announced plans to image even more. Now, the first catalogues of spectroscopy results have been released online, allowing anyone to access this enormous collection of data...