SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper
@milkywaymapper.bsky.social
Proud member of @sdssurveys.bsky.social. Honoring our ancestor surveys SEGUE and APOGEE. Grateful for the Gaia, TESS, & eROSITA satellites. Observing all the stars
Milky Way!
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
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Milky Way!
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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.
hyperallergic.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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.
It's data release day!
homer simpson is running with his mouth open
ALT: homer simpson is running with his mouth open
media.tenor.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It's data release day!
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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...
arxiv.org
July 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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
Not *all* the surveys #MilkyWay23 🔭🌌
🔭🧪#MilkyWay23 Neal Evans recognizes all the many surveys!
October 23, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Not *all* the surveys #MilkyWay23 🔭🌌
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.
October 23, 2023 at 4:27 PM
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.
An entire conference devote to "Surveying the Milky Way". #MilkyWay23. We will be wallowing for the next week. Please excuse us. 🤩🌌
October 23, 2023 at 4:12 PM
An entire conference devote to "Surveying the Milky Way". #MilkyWay23. We will be wallowing for the next week. Please excuse us. 🤩🌌