Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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.

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/sdss.jhu/openskynode/sdss
Related Identifier http://cas.sdss.org/
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://sdss.jhu/openskynode/sdss
Provenance
Creator William O'Mullane
Publisher JHU
Publication Year 2004
OpenAccess true
Contact vo-helpdesk <vo-help(at)skysrv.pha.jhu.edu>
Representation
Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Physics