{"id":724,"date":"2006-11-20T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2011-02-22T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:23:03","slug":"mapping-the-universe-sloan-digital-sky-survey-sdss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Mapping The Universe: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/11\/skySurvey.jpg\" alt=\"skySurvey.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">update 22.02.2011: the above image is a still from the below referenced film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdss.org\/background\/\">SDSS homepage<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SDSS is systematically mapping a quarter of the entire sky, producing a detailed image of it and determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It is also measuring the distances to a million of the nearest galaxies, giving us a three-dimensional picture of the universe through a volume one hundred times larger than that explored to date. SDSS is also recording the distances to 100,000 quasars \u2014 the most distant objects known \u2014 giving us unprecedented knowledge of the distribution of matter to the edge of the visible universe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ele4gWuQnsg\">youtube link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>update 22.02.2011: the above image is a still from the below referenced film. From the SDSS homepage: SDSS is systematically mapping a quarter of the entire sky, producing a detailed image of it and determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It is also measuring the distances to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,17,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}