
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has created the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe ever made, with deep multi-color images of one third of the sky, and spectra for more than three million astronomical objects. Learn and explore all phases and surveys—past, present, and future—of the SDSS.

News
SDSS Press Releases
- Astronomers map a record-breaking 1.2 million galaxies to study the properties of dark energy
July 14, 2016
SDSS Science Blog
- Wear the SDSS-III BOSS Data
September 6, 2016 - SDSS THIRTEENTH DATA RELEASE
August 1, 2016 - SDSS Collaboration Meeting 2016: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
July 13, 2016
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been one of the most successful surveys in the history of astronomy.
Learn about our rich scientific history, explore and analyze the data, and use our resources in science education.
Looking for the original SDSS.org website? It and Data Releases 1-7 are fully intact and can now be found on the “SDSS Classic” website.
We continue to maintain the SDSS3.org website. Data Releases 8-10 can be found there.
Acknowledgments
Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of
Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS acknowledges
support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at
the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org.
SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, The Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) / University of Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), National Astronomical Observatory of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observatório Nacional / MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Oxford, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.


