“We believe the SDSS II discoveries that lie ahead will further scientific discoveries and lay the groundwork for future astronomical exploration.
“The dedicated scientists and engineers of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have worked tirelessly to open new ways of seeing the Universe. “We are very excited with the funding agencies’ decision to support this important mission,” said Kron of the University of Chicago. The exciting results from the SDSS data to date include the discovery of distant quasars seen when the universe was just 900 million years old the definitive measurement of the large-scale distribution of galaxies, confirming the role of gravity in growing structures in the universe and evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy grew by cannibalizing smaller companion galaxies. The consortium of more than 300 scientists and engineers at 23 institutions around the world - and hundreds of other scientists working in collaboration - are using these data to address fascinating and fundamental questions about the universe. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the most ambitious astronomical survey project ever undertaken, already having measured precise brightnesses and positions for hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and quasars during the last five years. SDSS-II will complete observations of a huge contiguous region of the Northern skies and will study the structure and origins of the Milky Way Galaxy and the nature of dark energy. The SDSS has been carrying out a massive survey of the sky using a dedicated 2.5-m telescope at Apache Point Observatory near Sunspot, New Mexico. Department of Energy and the member institutions. Sloan Foundation of New York City, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Late last month the funding package for a new, three-year venture called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) was completed, led by the Alfred P.
This survey will add new partners and undertake new research missions, and will run through summer 2008. Richard Kron, director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, announced a new undertaking that will complete the largest survey of the universe. NGC 5919 is a member of a galaxy cluster Abel 2063.
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