- SDSS astronomers observe theoretically predicted effect in the remnants of dead starsA student-led team has observed that the mass-radius relation of white dwarf stars depends on the temperature of the star. Scientists have long searched for this subtle effect, detected here for the first time using a method from General Relativity – along with the largest catalog of white dwarf data of its kind.
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- Astronomers find quasar winds speeding up
A team of astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has used eight years of careful, constant observations to discover unexpected changes in the winds surrounding a distant black hole. Their work, presented at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, reveals that the winds surrounding the supermassive black hole at the […] - The “Barbenheimer Star”: Evidence for Spectacular Nucleosynthesis in the Early UniverseAstronomy’s new blockbuster is now playing in New Orleans. Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have discovered evidence for what they call the “Barbenheimer Star” – an enormous ancient star that exploded in a way previously thought impossible, resulting in an unusual pattern of elemental ashes that left behind a trail of evidence still visible billions of years later.
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- Mapping Everything Everywhere All At OnceThe newest mapmaking effort of the long-running Sloan Digital Sky Survey has begun. The Local Volume Mapper (LVM) Instrument has seen first science light.
- SDSS-V’s Robots Turn their Eyes to the Sky
After twenty-one years of observers loading heavy aluminum plates night after night, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is now seeing the cosmos through robotic eyes.
