Astronomy

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one of the most ambitious and influential surveys in the history of astronomy. Over eight years of operations (SDSS-I, 2000-2005; SDSS-II, 2005-2008), it obtained deep, multi-color images covering more than a quarter of the sky and created 3-dimensional maps containing more than 930,000 galaxies and more than 120,000 quasars. SDSS data have been released to the scientific community and the general public in annual increments, with the final public data release from SDSS-II scheduled for October 31, 2008. SDSS-III, a program of four new surveys using SDSS facilities, began observations in July 2008, and will continue through 2014.

"You can Control Online Telescopes, Watch LIVE Streaming Events, Participate in the Community and more."

"Celebrating 50 years in providing the vital link to space exploration."

"AstroNet: A Neural Network for Identifying Exoplanets in Light Curves"

"Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. This amounts to about 1 per cent of the Galactic stellar population. "

"Share, discuss and improve your data, tools, workflow and overall knowledge of our Solar System"

"Deep Space Map allows you to view celestial objects, including stars, constellations, galaxies and planets. The images seen here are identical to those found in version 1 that uses Google Earth API."

" the starting point for access to data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS).  This page provides a brief summary of the facilities and data products to guide Pan-STARRS archive users.  More complete information is provided on linked pages (see below)."