SDSS Press Releases

• Dark energy, the Milky Way galaxy and giant planets: Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues
  (January 10, 2008)
• SDSS reveals hidden population of powerful black holes
  (January 9, 2008)
• The Milky Way has a double halo
  (December 12, 2007)
• Road map of the sky now comes with pictures
  (August 29, 2007)
• The Galaxy Zoo welcomes a flood of visitors
  (August 8, 2007)
• SDSS-II releases 10 terabytes of data to the public
  (June 28, 2007)
• Distant quasars live in massive dark matter halos
  (February 9, 2007)
• Search continues for SDSS contributor Jim Gray
  (February 1, 2007)
• Sloan and the seven — make that eight — dwarfs
  (January 9, 2007)
• Gravity helps SDSS-II reveal a brilliant jewel of the early universe
  (November 7, 2006)
• How big is big? Probing the conditions of the universe on the largest scales
  (May 15, 2006)
• New Milky Way companions found: SDSS-II first to view two dim dwarf galaxies
  (May 8, 2006)
• Multiple galaxy mergers continue in the Milky Way
  (May 8, 2006)
• SDSS-II Supernova Survey explodes with new findings
  (January 12, 2006)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey turns its eye on the galaxy
  (January 11, 2006)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey reveals a new Milky Way neighbor
  (January 9, 2006)
• A New Survey — SDSS-II will map the Universe, the Milky Way and dark energy
  (July 11, 2005)
• SDSS uses 200,000 quasars to confirm Einstein's prediction of cosmic magnification
  (April 26, 2005)
• Gunn honored by AAS and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  (January 27, 2005)
• The Cosmic Yardstick — Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomers measure role of dark matter, dark energy and gravity in the distribution of galaxies
  (January 11, 2005)
• A New Galaxy Atlas — Sloan Digital Sky Survey findings comprise new compendium of galaxy families
  (January 11, 2005)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey finds mysterious new Milky Way Companion:
  A building block of the Milky Way
  (October 20, 2004)
• Cosmic Clumping: Sloan Digital Sky Survey measurements of gas between the galaxies bolsters the case for inflation and dark energy, and improves the case limiting neutrino mass
  (July 19, 2004)
• Andromeda 9 — The faintest galaxy ever
  Sloan Digital Sky Survey discovers the lowest luminosity galaxy yet: Andromeda IX, a new satellite of M31
  (May 31, 2004)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey releases six terabytes of data to public
  (March 15, 2004)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomers find wealth of new exotic star pairs
  (January 6, 2004)
• Could galactic find be Andromeda's food? Sloan Digital Sky Survey reveals giant clump of stars near the Andromeda galaxy
  (January 5, 2004)
• Visual "mirages" probe distribution of dark matter
  (December 17, 2003)
• 3D Map of universe bolsters case for dark energy and dark matter
  (October 28, 2003)
• New Metal-poor Galaxies: The youngest in the universe?
  (August 18, 2003)
• Dark Energy's Shadow: Sloan Digital Sky Survey detects physical evidence for dark energy
  (July 19, 2003)
• Link between black holes and galaxies discovered in our own backyard
  (July 14, 2003)
• SDSS Founder Bahcall honored with the Dan David Prize and the Franklin Medal in Physics
  (June 25, 2003)
• Citing "profound influence on astronomy" Gunn receives first Joseph Weber Award from AAS
  (June 25, 2003)
• Baldwin remembered at Apace Point Observatory
  (June 25, 2003)
• Kron named to succeed Peoples as SDSS director
  (June 23, 2003)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey probes dark matter theory
  (May 21, 2003)
• Three distant quasars found at edge of universe
  (January 9, 2003)
• Distant ring of stars found circling the Milky Way
  (January 6, 2003)
• Gunn wins first Weber Award from American Astronomical Society
  (June 27, 2002)
• Sky Survey unveils star cluster shredded by the Milky Way
  (June 3, 2002)
• Researchers say new star structures found in the Milky Way alter galactic model
  (Jan 9, 2002)
• Afterglows the Hard Way: Fermilab scientists find the glow without the burst — a first
  (Nov 8, 2001)
• Sky Survey lowers estimate of asteroid impact risk
  (Nov 7, 2001)
• First Light: Astronomers use distant quasar to probe cosmic 'Dark Age,' universe origins
  (Aug 3, 2001)
• Early results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: From under our nose to the edge of the universe
  (June 5, 2001)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey finds most distant object ever observed
  (April 13, 2000)
• Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy... Methane? Sloan Digital Sky Survey scientists discover new celestial dwarfs
  (May 31, 1999)
• Scientists of Sloan Digital Sky Survey discover most distant quasar
  (December 8, 1998)
• Historic new sky survey achieves first light
  (June 8, 1998)
• Last piece for advanced new telescope heads for the mountain
  (February 11, 1998)

SDSS Features

• Lamb, Szalay honored by American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows
  (May 22, 2003)
• SDSS Astronomer Xiaohui Fan is 2003 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize winner
  (January 21, 2003)
• Official dedication of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  (October 5, 2000)
• SDSS discovers its first comet
  (August 13, 1999)
• The Sky Survey replaces its monitor telescope
  (October 23, 1998)

Articles

• Sky surveys reveal cosmic ripples
  (BBC News - January 12, 2005)
• Digital Sky Survey Detects New Stars in the Milky Way
  (National Geographic Today - January 31, 2003)
• Halo Reveals Remains of Milky Way's Galactic Snacks
  (New York Times - April 11, 2000)
• Seven Wonders of Modern Astronomy (SDSS is #4)
  (Scientific American Special Issue: Extreme Engineering - December 1999)
• Survey Reveals Massive Galaxies
  (New York Times - December 14, 1999)
• Stars and Strips Forever
  (Astronomy Magazine - February 1999)
• First Light on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  (by Gillian Knapp - June 9, 1998)
• Mapping the Universe/Virtual Sky
  (StarDate - May 12/13, 1998)
• The Universe: Only a Mouse Click Away
  (Wired News - March 20, 1998)
• Census of the Heavens Asks: What Else Lurks Out There?
  (New York Times - March 17, 1998)
• A Million Galaxies to Be Tracked
  (Johns Hopkins Gazette - February 1998)
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Pi on the Sky
  (entire periodical [1454 KB PDF] or reprinted article [779 KB PS])
  (SLAC Beam Line - Fall 1997)
• Mining the Heavens: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  (Sky & Telescope - August 1997)

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