New data help astronomers explore the hidden Milky Way
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Today, astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, or SDSS-III – including University of Virginia astronomers – released a new online public data set featuring 60,000 stars that are helping to tell the story of how our Milky Way galaxy formed, the subject of scientific speculation and debate for hundreds of years.