Великолепная штука, этот SDSS!
А будет ли он продолжаться на остальное небо? Какие у них планы?
На сайте обзора о планах ни слова...
Сегодня в отпуск прилетит человек, у которого смогу спросить.
Все небо они вряд ли будут делать.
Но на сайте они пишут о SDSS-II, который уже идет.
The SDSS completed its first phase of operations - SDSS-I - in June, 2005. Over the course of five years, SDSS-I imaged more than 8,000 square degrees of the sky in five bandpasses, detecting nearly 200 million celestial objects, and it measured spectra of more than 675,000 galaxies, 90,000 quasars, and 185,000 stars. These data have supported studies ranging from asteroids and nearby stars to the large scale structure of the Universe.
The SDSS has entered a new phase, SDSS-II, continuing through June, 2008. With a consortium that now includes 25 institutions around the globe, SDSS-II will carry out three distinct
surveys - the Sloan Legacy
Survey, SEGUE, and the Sloan Supernova
Survey - to address fundamental questions about the nature of the Universe, the origin of galaxies and quasars, and the formation and evolution of our own Galaxy, the Milky Way.