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Sloan Survey Second Data Release

Posted by timothy on from the tax-sink dept.

TMB writes "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a large survey for distant galaxies and quasars that will cover 1/4 of the sky, just celebrated Data Release 2. The imaging data covers 3324 square degrees, with 88 million objects, plus spectra of 367,360 objects (mostly galaxies)."

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  1. Re:square degrees? by mroch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which sounds more impressive to someone that doesn't know what either means, 1 or 3324?

  2. Is anyone else annoyed... by drox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... at the line that indicated this is in the "tax-sink dept."?

    With all the useless and/or downright dangerous and scary things are taxes are spent on, it seems very small-minded and petty to complain about the embarassing pittance that's spent on learning more about our universe.

  3. mindboggling indeed by Roman_(ajvvs) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    When you think a sizeable portion of our interstellar and -galactic sight is obscured by our own galaxy, to see "mostly galaxies" just boggles the mind. If there are billions of stars in each galaxy, and you're seeing more galaxies than you see stars in your own galaxy, how mindbogglingly many stars are there to eventually to look at?

    *head explodes*

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