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Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Mapping the Universe

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Mapping the Universe

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Mapping the Universe

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Sloan Sweeps the Sky

Why pinpoint one galaxy when you can map a million? The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is casting the widest net yet on the cosmos.

The Big Questions

Can the Sloan Digital Sky Survey help answer our deepest, darkest questions about the Universe?

The 142-Megapixel Digital Camera

For ten years, the Sloan telescope’s digital camera was the most complex imaging instrument ever created.

One in a Million

When you’re looking at everything, you’re bound to find an oddball. Here are three cosmic jewels discovered while mining the mountain of data from the Sloan telescope.

What does it take to plot a Universe's worth of galaxies, clusters, quasars, nebulae, stars, dwarfs, and supernovae?

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Two Telescopes, Two Techniques
How Far is Far? Measuring Distance in Space
Q & A with SDSS founding member Jeremiah Ostriker
Cosmic Collisions Space Show

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