Sloan Digital Sky Survey Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. William O'Mullane
  2. Published by
    JHU
Abstract

This SkyNode points to the latest public SDSS catalog data release available at http://cas.sdss.org/ The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious astronomical survey ever undertaken. The survey will map one-quarter of the entire sky in detail, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of hundreds of millions of celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars. The SDSS addresses fascinating, fundamental questions about the universe. With the survey, astronomers will be able to see the large-scale patterns of galaxies: sheets and voids through the whole universe. Scientists have many ideas about how the universe evolved, and different patterns of large-scale structure point to different theories. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey will tell us which theories are right - or whether we will have to come up with entirely new ideas.

Keywords
  1. OpenSkyNode
  2. Galaxy
  3. Star
See also HTML
http://cas.sdss.org/
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://sdss.jhu/openskynode/sdss

Access

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Capability for unknown standard ivo://ivoa.net/std/openskynode. The VO Registry may have more details; look for IVOID ivo://sdss.jhu/openskynode/sdss.

History

2004-11-22T12:22:54Z
Resource record created

Contact

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vo-helpdesk
E-Mail
vo-help@skysrv.pha.jhu.edu