SDSS-III, a program of four new surveys using SDSS facilities, began observations in July 2008, and will continue through 2014.
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New measurements reveal slimmer Milky Way.
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Dark energy, the Milky Way galaxy and giant planets: Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues.
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SDSS reveals hidden population of powerful black holes. Details
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The Milky Way has a double halo. Read more
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A giant astronomical survey completes its mission: A new mission begins.
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Road Map of the Sky now comes with pictures: Drawing on 20 terabytes of data gathered over the last eight years, two scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) helped develop a tool that allows internet users to "step into their virtual backyard" and view images of hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies.
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SDSS-II releases 10 terabytes of data to the public: One of the largest catalogs of the universe — a "Road Map of the Sky" — was made public by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II), in the survey's sixth public data release (DR6).
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With the prospect of finding dozens of new dwarf systems in our Local Group of galaxies, an international team of researchers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) has moved the count ahead with the discovery of seven — and perhaps eight — new satellites of the Milky Way. Details
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Gravity helps SDSS-II reveal a brilliant jewel of the early universe. More
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How big is big? Probing the conditions of the universe on the largest scales. Details
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New Milky Way companions found: SDSS-II first to view two dim
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) announced
discoveries of two new faint companion galaxies to the Milky
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SDSS-II Supernova Survey explodes with new findings.
The population of supernovae - exploding stars in distant galaxies -- has exploded here on Earth with an unprecedented number of new discoveries logged in just 90 days by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II).
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The extension of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
(SDSS-II) announced in an International Astronomical Union Circular
the discovery of five supernovae on September 19. This is the
start of a multi-year program that will discover several hundred
supernovae and use them to estimate properties of dark matter
and dark energy. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
(JINA) based at the University of Notre Dame is partner in the
SDSS-II effort.
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A New Survey - SDSS-II will map the Universe, the Milky Way
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Der Sloan Digital Sky Survey geht weiter - das Astrophysikalische
Institut Potsdam beteiligt sich Read
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