Sloan Digital Sky Surveys
@sdssurveys.bsky.social
Mapping the Universe since 1998. Featuring @milkywaymapper.bsky.social, @blackholemapper.bsky.social, and @localvolumemapper.bsky.social. We'll let you know when we are done.
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We are devastated to learn that Patrick Gaulme ((@patrickgaulme.bsky.social) has passed away. He had an illustrious career in planetary and red giant seismology and was an Astronomer for SDSS-IV. He was awarded Architect status in SDSS-IV for all of his work on observations.
July 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We are devastated to learn that Patrick Gaulme ((@patrickgaulme.bsky.social) has passed away. He had an illustrious career in planetary and red giant seismology and was an Astronomer for SDSS-IV. He was awarded Architect status in SDSS-IV for all of his work on observations.
Thank you!
I remember the first SDSS data release. Hard to appreciate how transformative it was, both for the data and how they made it publicly available. Awesome to see them keep trucking. Congratulations to all involved!
Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19
July 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Thank you!
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With the release of DR19 of @sdssurveys.bsky.social we published a suite of tutorials to help astronomers use the data. I’d like to highlight two tutorials that are a little different and are targeted at introductory astronomy undergrad classes. 1/4
July 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
With the release of DR19 of @sdssurveys.bsky.social we published a suite of tutorials to help astronomers use the data. I’d like to highlight two tutorials that are a little different and are targeted at introductory astronomy undergrad classes. 1/4
DR19 also includes nine brand-new Value Added Catalogs (VACs). These catalogs are based on SDSS-V spectra and data products, and produced by SDSS-V collaboration members. Find these 9, and the 67 VACs from earlier data releases all here: www.sdss.org/dr19/data_ac... #DR19
July 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
DR19 also includes nine brand-new Value Added Catalogs (VACs). These catalogs are based on SDSS-V spectra and data products, and produced by SDSS-V collaboration members. Find these 9, and the 67 VACs from earlier data releases all here: www.sdss.org/dr19/data_ac... #DR19
@localvolumemapper.bsky.social is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and other Local Volume Galaxies. Read more about what they are doing here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/abo... #DR19
July 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
@localvolumemapper.bsky.social is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and other Local Volume Galaxies. Read more about what they are doing here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/abo... #DR19
@blackholemapper.bsky.social had already released a few spectra in DR18, but they are going all out for DR19, with lots of galaxy and quasar spectra #DR19
July 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
@blackholemapper.bsky.social had already released a few spectra in DR18, but they are going all out for DR19, with lots of galaxy and quasar spectra #DR19
Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19
July 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19
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🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨
Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...
Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...
July 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨
Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...
Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...
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The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉
For the first time, LVM data is released.
Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨
A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻
For the first time, LVM data is released.
Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨
A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻
July 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉
For the first time, LVM data is released.
Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨
A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻
For the first time, LVM data is released.
Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨
A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻
We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #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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July 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19
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Discover the ✨amazing✨ possibilities of LVM in this image of IC 434 in the Orion constellation, featuring the Horsehead Nebula emerging on the left (credit: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26...).
Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...
Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...
July 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Discover the ✨amazing✨ possibilities of LVM in this image of IC 434 in the Orion constellation, featuring the Horsehead Nebula emerging on the left (credit: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26...).
Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...
Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...
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So many webpages........
July 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
So many webpages........
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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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
How do astronomers decide that objects to observe? You and your students can now map the cosmos with our new card game.
We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below
voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...
We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below
voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...
June 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
How do astronomers decide that objects to observe? You and your students can now map the cosmos with our new card game.
We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below
voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...
We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below
voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...
Want to hear about how SDSS scientists are studying huge bubbles and shockwaves in the Milky Way and beyond?
Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German
Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German
Tom Herbst und Niv Drory zeigen euch am 4. Juni um 19 Uhr am HdA wie man die riesigen Blasen und Schockwellen, die von heißen Sternen in unserer Milchstraße und ihren Begleitgalaxien erzeugt werden kartiert. Tickets erhaltet ihr online unter ztix.de/hp/events/27... und an der Abendkasse 🔭
May 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Want to hear about how SDSS scientists are studying huge bubbles and shockwaves in the Milky Way and beyond?
Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German
Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German
We love to see it Alex! Congratulations!
Because nucleosynthesis is still spectacular! #barbenheimerstar
Because nucleosynthesis is still spectacular! #barbenheimerstar
Still not quite believing it but feeling very fortunate to be among the 2025 Sloan Research Fellow cohort!
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/...
February 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We love to see it Alex! Congratulations!
Because nucleosynthesis is still spectacular! #barbenheimerstar
Because nucleosynthesis is still spectacular! #barbenheimerstar
If you have a chance to see the incredible @emilyjogriffith.bsky.social give a Planetarium talk -- DO IT!!!!
She is one of our fearless leaders in SDSS working toward understanding our Milky Way!
She is one of our fearless leaders in SDSS working toward understanding our Milky Way!
Excited to be giving a public planetarium talk at Embry Riddle University tonight! Love showing off the @sdssurveys.bsky.social data :) Sold out show!!
February 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you have a chance to see the incredible @emilyjogriffith.bsky.social give a Planetarium talk -- DO IT!!!!
She is one of our fearless leaders in SDSS working toward understanding our Milky Way!
She is one of our fearless leaders in SDSS working toward understanding our Milky Way!
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who loves stars and sees nothing but 💗 in their CMDs, HRDs, MHDs, PhDs, etc.
February 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who loves stars and sees nothing but 💗 in their CMDs, HRDs, MHDs, PhDs, etc.
The return-on-investment for the SDSS surveys is truly extraordinary.
It is mid-scale, it is efficient, it is open, it is reasonable, it is diverse, it is inclusive.
All of the data is returned to all of humanity for the benefit all of humanity.
Join us!
It is mid-scale, it is efficient, it is open, it is reasonable, it is diverse, it is inclusive.
All of the data is returned to all of humanity for the benefit all of humanity.
Join us!
February 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The return-on-investment for the SDSS surveys is truly extraordinary.
It is mid-scale, it is efficient, it is open, it is reasonable, it is diverse, it is inclusive.
All of the data is returned to all of humanity for the benefit all of humanity.
Join us!
It is mid-scale, it is efficient, it is open, it is reasonable, it is diverse, it is inclusive.
All of the data is returned to all of humanity for the benefit all of humanity.
Join us!
Love this account, especially when they show the picture of a galaxy that we took 🔭📷
A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.
It is at redshift 0.090 (lookback time 1.22 billion years) with coordinates (193.67645, 32.97523).
45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
It is at redshift 0.090 (lookback time 1.22 billion years) with coordinates (193.67645, 32.97523).
45 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
December 14, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Love this account, especially when they show the picture of a galaxy that we took 🔭📷
A story we ❤️about how exploring the Universe can re-ignite passion. And we don't mind that it's about looking at our white dwarf spectra in @jjhermes.bsky.social group 🤩🔭
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
Written in the Stars: How a BU Undergrad Rediscovered Her Passion for Space Science
Astrophysics student Ariyana Bonab has studied the composition of 54,000 white dwarf star images—but she almost gave up on the subject
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December 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
A story we ❤️about how exploring the Universe can re-ignite passion. And we don't mind that it's about looking at our white dwarf spectra in @jjhermes.bsky.social group 🤩🔭
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
Go, Stroopwafel, go!
December 10, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Go, Stroopwafel, go!
