.Three main priorities of the plan include developing SDSs monitoring stations and equipping weather forecast stations, eliminating internal SDSs hotspots and promoting public participation, ISNA ...

A star of exceptional purity has just been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud. With only 0.005% metals compared to the ...

A team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today announced discovery of the brightest known image of a galaxy from the early universe. While furious ...

At the 29th meeting of the national specialized working group on SDSs management, held on Tuesday, the 150-page comprehensive plan was developed with cross-sectoral collaboration of 15 executive ...

WASHINGTON DC — The population of supernovae — exploding stars in distant galaxies — has exploded here on Earth with an unprecedented number of new discoveries logged in just 90 days by the Sloan ...

A collaboration of researchers from around the world has just made the largest ever digital color image of the sky available to the scientific community and the public. The image has been put together ...

After a decade of construction and eight years of operation (SDSS-I, 2000-2005; SDSS-II, 2005-2008), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) completed its observations in mid-July and will release its ...

A team led by Vasily Belokurov at the University of Cambridge in England has found the largest optical Einstein ring known. The astronomers say the object, which they dub the Cosmic Horseshoe, ...

After 20 years and four previous phases, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Phase V(SDSS V) is ready to give Yale astronomers a new look at the wonders of the cosmos. The survey’s mission is ambitious: It ...

Can we get out of here? That’s the question pondered for centuries. How do we permanently leave Earth? A cannonball fired upward always returned. With a greater explosive charge and a higher speed, a ...