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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper
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Proud member of @sdssurveys.bsky.social. Honoring our ancestor surveys SEGUE and APOGEE. Grateful for the Gaia, TESS, & eROSITA satellites. Observing all the stars
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Sep 1
Milky Way!
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · Aug 29
Always a privilege to help with a creativets.org astrophotography workshop over the weekend. Good company and good views in the Idaho Dark Sky Reserve idahodarksky.org
The bright, colorful core of the Milky Way crossing the night sky over a silhouetted mountain range above the still waters of a lake reflecting the stars. Alturas Lake, Idaho. Photo: Bill Dunford Plato, the most bestest and most patient boy in the world, posing for a night portrait. Sun Valley, Idaho. Photo: Bill Dunford Veterans capturing the night sky at Alturas Lake, Idaho. Photographers standing in the shadows of tall pines at night, attending to camera equipment that glows in colors in the darkness. Photo: Bill Dunford Clouds of countless stars and dark lanes of dust in the Milky Way, seen directly overhead above the silhouettes of tall pine trees in a forest at night. Photo: Bill Dunford
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · Jul 15
Recent scholarship suggests the Milky Way was represented in Ancient Egypt as early as 1077–943 BCE. The sky goddess, Nut, was sometimes depicted with an “undulating black curve,” thought to symbolize the Great Rift, a ribbon of dark space that divides the Milky Way.
Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way
Representations of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut on 3,000-year-old coffins shows evidence of the galaxy being accurately represented.
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Jul 10
a wrestler named king corbin walks down the aisle in front of a large number 19
Alt: a wrestler named king corbin walks down the aisle in front of a large number 19
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Jul 10
And Data Release 19 from @sdssurveys.bsky.social is live to the whole world:
www.sdss.org/dr19/
Data Release 19 - SDSS
DR19 is the second data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR19 data release paper. What's New in DR19 Data Access Scope DR...
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Jul 10
It's data release day!
homer simpson is running with his mouth open
ALT: homer simpson is running with his mouth open
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · Jul 10
Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19
Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the sky with multi-object...
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Oct 23
My chocolate count has not been rising quickly with the last few talks. Awesome radio/mm/far-IR etc talks, but a little lacking in distances to do the face-on versions.....
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Oct 23
Sean Carey comes through. We are now 2 for 2. Will be 3 for 3 after the next talk, 'cause it's ours and we definitely have that image #MilkyWay23
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Oct 23
Not *all* the surveys #MilkyWay23 🔭🌌
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Dr. Luisa Rebull @lrebull.bsky.social · Oct 23
🔭🧪#MilkyWay23 Neal Evans recognizes all the many surveys!
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Oct 23
We need start the game that whenever someone shows the Robert Hurt artist's conception of the Milky Way at #MilkyWay23, everyone gets a chocolate treat.
A face-on spiral galaxy with spiral arms labeled.
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SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper @milkywaymapper.bsky.social · Oct 23
An entire conference devote to "Surveying the Milky Way". #MilkyWay23. We will be wallowing for the next week. Please excuse us. 🤩🌌
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