New instrument peers through the heart of the Milky Way
Monday, January 9, 2012 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomy has a powerful new tool to probe the structure of our galaxy. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectrograph is the newest instrument deployed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). The revolutionary capabilities of this high-resolution infrared spectrograph were presented today by Steven Majewski and John Wilson of the University of Virginia at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, TX.