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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. 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.