03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
... data from telescopes dedicated to generating vast data sets on the structure of the Universe such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), Lior...
07 September 2016
Astronomers reveal the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers based at Notre Dame have used colours to identify the approximate ages of more than ...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
... Universe over the last 10 billion years. The map, created by an international collaboration of scientists using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), not only reveals the large-scale structure of the Universe, but it could also...
11 October 2017
Have astronomers found the missing mass in the Universe?
...-Zel'dovich effect between ∼260,000 pairs of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG’s) taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. They suggest that the apparent over-density of baryons could be due to filaments in merger systems...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... data from over 7000 quasars, and combining them with UV observations from the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with additional information from NASA’s Chandra and Swift X-ray observatories, the duo...
07 August 2020
Huge city-wide lunar lava tubes identified in new study
... tube has collapsed, leaving a circular hole that can be observed by overhead orbiters. Using satellite images and digital terrain models (DTMs) of lunar and Martian volcanic regions where skylights and other features known as collapse...
