Sentences with phrase «digital sky images»

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Since 2000, the $ 85 million Sloan Digital Sky Survey at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico has imaged more than one - third of the night sky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasaSky Survey at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico has imaged more than one - third of the night sky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasasky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasars.

Early this year astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey released the largest color image of the universe ever made, a trillion - pixel set of paired portraits that covers one - third of the night sSky Survey released the largest color image of the universe ever made, a trillion - pixel set of paired portraits that covers one - third of the night skysky.

The image is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and was taken by the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.

Volunteers for the Galaxy Zoo project have classified a million images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, leading to about 20 scientific publications and one genuine enigma: a peculiar green intergalactic blob.

But when the team compared them to a better image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, they found a surprising mismatch.

Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson found what they think is a dual black hole while examining more than 17,000 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which obtained data, images, and spectra of more than one - fourth of the sSky Survey, which obtained data, images, and spectra of more than one - fourth of the skysky.

Two digital SLRs (single - lens reflex cameras), equipped with fisheye lenses and GPS units, captured these two simultaneous all - sky images of aurora in Alaska, USA.

Their two digital SLRs, equipped with fisheye lenses and GPS units, captured two simultaneous all - sky images that the researchers combined to create a 3D photograph of the aurora and measure the emission altitude.

The 800 - megapixel image comprises nearly 1,200 photos, but no high - powered telescopes were involved — just the dark, clear skies of the Chilean desert and Canary Islands and a Nikon D3 digital camera.

The picture is created by adding the color information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Note 1) to the monochromatic image acquired by the HSC.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

Related sites Abstract of research paper, with link to full text NRAO Very Large Array, used to make the radio image Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which spotted the quasar

In order to get a strong enough signal to see it, the researchers took 1 million pairs of galaxies found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, all separated by a similar distance, and stacked their images together.

Every night a mosaic of 112 charge - coupled devices (CCDs) snaps digital images of a hand - size patch of sky.

(See Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Theta Persei from WikiSky.org.)

(Images by Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Gemini, Sloan Digital Sky Survey)

The quasar image in the original image of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which has been used for the actual survey to identify gravitational lensing, looks only slightly extended, but the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image clearly exhibits two distinct quasar images (white) as well as a massive galaxy in between the quasar images (orange) that produces gravitational lensing.

(See Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Alpha Centauri AB from WikiSky.org, and and at Astronomy Picture of the Day.)

(See a Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Alpha Centauri A and B from WikiSky.org, and at APOD.)

(See Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Zeta Doradus from WikiSky.org.)

Galaxy Zoo is an effort to classify about 250,000 galaxies that were imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey over the past eight years.

This formally begins with the selection criteria («We selected galaxy images for this study from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, Abazajian et al. 2009) including all objects classified as Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG) that have a spectroscopic redshift measurement.

(See Sloan Digital Sky Survey field images of Denebola from WikiSky.org.)

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There are a few extra images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to work through, but we've also lined up images from the latest Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS) data release.

They have traditionally created their illustrations with a mix of graphite and Photoshop drawings, but for Ocean Meets Sky, they experimented with some entirely digital images.

It questions the use of high technology for the purpose of constructing an alternative digital image of the sky, a synthesis of real - time processed data (Light, location, temperature) collected at the project space.

Seen at eye level through a square aperture cut into the white steel cube, the moving image of the sky is not a digital projection or display — it is the actual three - dimensional sky.