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Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Posted by michael on from the pan-and-scan dept.

Swannie writes: "There's a story in today's Chicago Tribune about a joint project that Fermi Lab is taking on with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. The goal is to produce a 3D map of the universe using a really big digital camera, and a really creative way to add "depth" to the image. The article has some decent technical details for a newspaper, including a pretty picture." Update: 03/12 15:44 GMT by M : The blurb is in error. A particular scientist from Rensselaer is mentioned in the article, but Rensselaer isn't part of the project as an institution.

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  1. What about this one ? by kraf · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've been playing around with this prog, it has quite a big 3d map in it.

  2. Excellent! Finally SDSS Gets Public! by hondo_san · · Score: 3, Informative

    Howdy all. I've been following the project online for over a year. The cool part is that this is sort of a googlebot for the heavens. See: http://www.astronomy.com/content/dynamic/articles/ 000/000/000/502vwthx.asp

  3. Forgive me, but... `news'?? by Cally · · Score: 4, Informative
    I know this is a lame sorta thing to say but really, the Sloan DSS has been running for... what, 3? 4? years now? Interesting, I grant you, but hardly news.

    Now the 2df galaxy cluster mapping project which are giving us maps of our galaxy's position out to about 1B light-years -- /that's/ interesting AND news. hell,

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  4. Insider's view by srhuston · · Score: 3, Informative
    Since I'm the sysadmin at Princeton's astrophysics department, perhaps I can shed a few more links for the picture-hungry (and the information hungry):

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