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    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope...
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    Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomers measure role of dark matter, dark energy and gravity in the distribution of galaxies". Sloan Digital Sky Survey....
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    III, Mario Jurić, and their colleagues, based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The wall measures 1.37 billion light-years (1.30×1025 m) in length...
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    identifiers in sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Greek philosopher Democritus (450–370 BCE) proposed that the bright band on the night sky known...
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  • of Technology, United States Sloan (band), a Canadian rock band Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a major astronomical survey Sloan Great Wall, a galactic filament...
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    all known cosmic voids. 2009 – The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data combined with previous large-scale surveys now provide the most complete view...
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    largest redshift survey between 1998 (overtaking Las Campanas Redshift Survey) and 2003 (overtaken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey). Matthew Colless...
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    the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm) Footprint 500 m (Blue Marble Next Generation) 15 m (Landsat imagery; except for polar areas) U.S. USGS Digital Ortho: 1 m...
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    ISSN 0004-637X. Fan, Xiaohui; et al. (December 2001). "A Survey of z > 5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial...
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  • the observable universe. It was discovered using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey by the team of Alexia M. Lopez, a doctoral candidate in cosmology...
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    light-years away. 2020 – After a 20-year-long survey, astrophysicists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey publish the largest, most detailed 3D map of the...
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    in 2005, in two large galaxy redshift surveys, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. Combining the CMB observations with BAO...
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    Advisory Council of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. A minor planet discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point Observatory was named...
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  • non-commercial use. The DSS data rights are held by multiple institutions. Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images are now in the public domain, although earlier data...
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  • Guide Star Catalog Pan-STARRS Sloan Digital Sky Survey SkyMapper Two Micron All-Sky Survey B. Lasker, "Digitized Optical Surveys at STScI", STScI Newsletter...
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  • by Ivana Damjanov found over 600 red nugget candidates in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database, of which 9 were confirmed as red nuggets. These...
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    redshift surveys became feasible. Notable examples are the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (221,000 redshifts, completed 2002); the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (approximately...
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  • FIRST survey 1997 — Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) commences, first version of Hipparcos Catalogue published 1998 — Sloan Digital Sky Survey commences...
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    Vol. 6 (2006), No. 1, 35–42 "Super-Large-Scale Structures in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-06-10. Retrieved...
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  • Whiteoak extension Southern Sky Survey Palomar Observatory Sky Survey II Two Micron All-Sky Survey Sloan Digital Sky Survey Minnesota Automated Plate Scanner...
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    the internet. The SDSS 2.5 m (98 in) telescope is used for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and began operating in 2000. It is a Ritchey-Chretien reflector...
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    1997 and 2002 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) – an optical and spectroscopic survey, 2000–2006 (first pass) Photopic Sky Survey – a survey with 37,440 individual...
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    in the constellation Boötes from observations captured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The End of Greatness is an observational scale discovered at roughly...
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  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey Discover Most Distant Quasar Dec 1998 Fan, Xiaohui; et al. (January 2001). "High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky...
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    the COMBO-17 survey that clarified the bimodal distribution of red and blue galaxies as seen in the analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data and even...
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    completed, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey will surpass POSS I and POSS II in depth, although the POSS covers almost 2.5 times more area on the sky. POSS II also...
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  • Matter model. The scientific consensus interpretation is that the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) suggests that things do indeed smooth out above 100 Megaparsecs...
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    "Identification of Superclusters and Their Properties in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using the WHL Cluster Catalog". The Astrophysical Journal. 958...
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    "Identification of Superclusters and Their Properties in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using the WHL Cluster Catalog". The Astrophysical Journal. 958...
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    served as Fermilab's third director, served as director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and oversaw the shutdown of the Superconducting Super Collider...
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