Star Light, Star Bright, First One Million Galaxies I See Tonight.... / Geoff Brumfiel.
by Brumfiel, Geoff; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 65Science. Publisher: Brumfiel/Geoff, 2001ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Astronomy -- Observations | Brown dwarfs | Galaxies -- Clusters | Quasars | Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Spectrograph | Telescopes -- Design and construction | Universe -- Origin | Universe -- StructureDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Mapping the stars has never been easy....Now, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey housed at the Apache Point observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, has changed mapping forever....The Sloan will do more than answer questions about the origins of our universe--it will forever change the way astronomy is done. When the survey is completed, it will contain information on over 200 million celestial objects. This data, enough to fill 60,000 sets of encyclopedias, will be accessible to researchers worldwide via the Internet." (JOHNS HOPKINS MAGAZINE) This article briefly reviews cosmology and examines an extensive and innovative astronomic survey that will be accessible via the Internet.
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Originally Published: Star Light, Star Bright, First One Million Galaxies I See Tonight..., April 2001; pp. 54-61.
"Mapping the stars has never been easy....Now, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey housed at the Apache Point observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, has changed mapping forever....The Sloan will do more than answer questions about the origins of our universe--it will forever change the way astronomy is done. When the survey is completed, it will contain information on over 200 million celestial objects. This data, enough to fill 60,000 sets of encyclopedias, will be accessible to researchers worldwide via the Internet." (JOHNS HOPKINS MAGAZINE) This article briefly reviews cosmology and examines an extensive and innovative astronomic survey that will be accessible via the Internet.
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