Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Posted by michael on Monday March 11, 2002 @10:57PM 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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Forgive me, but... `news'?? by Cally · 2002-03-11 23:59 · 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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