On Tuesday, January 11, at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, WA, astronomers and physicists with the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) announced the release of the largest color image of the sky yet made. In the following press release issued by the SDSS-III collaboration, cosmologist David Schlegel of Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division, principal investigator of SDSS-III’s Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), discusses future maps of the sky and the role the giant image has played in targeting over a million galaxies for BOSS’s study of dark energy and the history of the expansion of the universe.
Objavili su i dosta alata za pregled te "slike". Jedan od njih je i http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/navi.asp
Taj alat ima i spektralnu dijagnostiku. Ima i podatke u vezi objekta koji posmatrate (da li je vec u katalogu i dosta drugih)
Najbolje u svemu tome je da vecina informacija sa slike nije istrazena tj. tamo negdje mozda nesto ceka da bude otkriveno... a i mi obicni smrtnici imamo sansu da to i uradimo.
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They say I look like daddy :D