Astronomers release the largest color image of the sky ever made
We provide here the AAS press release and supplementary material and links.
The presentations made at the press conference can be found here
Links to the two associated arXiv e-Print papers describing DR8 and the SDSS-III project:
We also provide here the images used in the press release (with and without labels):
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Меня завораживает это изображение неба!
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[...] latest release of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey happened yesterday (SDSS3 blog article about the release). This has been widely talked about as providing the largest ever digital image of the sky, but one [...]
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[...] yet made: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is taking pictures large portions of the sky, released what they are calling the largest picture ever made, over 1 trillion pixels. I’d suggest against downloading the full-resolution picture [...]
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