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Mapping the Universe since 1998. Featuring @milkywaymapper.bsky.social, @blackholemapper.bsky.social, and @localvolumemapper.bsky.social. We'll let you know when we are done. sdss.org

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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New planetarium film! SDSS-V: Mapping the Hidden Universe is produced in collaboration with @fiskeplanet.bsky.social. The film takes you from Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico to Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to see how SDSS astronomers are mapping the cosmos www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXU...
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SDSS-V: Mapping the Hidden Universe (English)
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SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper @blackholemapper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Mapping Monsters: SDSS-V Data Release 20 Unveils All-Sky Views of Supermassive Black Holes - SDSS www.sdss.org/black-hole-m...
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Mapping Monsters: SDSS-V Data Release 20 Unveils All-Sky Views of Supermassive Black Holes - SDSS
The Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across th...
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Want to see our DR20 highlights? Have a look at our DR20 news item on our website: www.sdss.org/sdss-launche... #DR20
This image highlights the three mappers that make up SDSS-V. On the right we see a nebula in the Milky Way, observed by Local Volume Mapper. In the middle we see a map of all the galaxies and quasars observed by Black Hole Mapper, while on the right we see a map of all the stars observed by Milky Way Mapper.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Want to see our DR20 data? Go to our Splash Page, which lists all the different ways that you can interact with SDSS data: dr20.sdss.org #DR20
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SDSS Splashpage
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And we are live! Our twentieth data release, DR20, is now available on our website: www.sdss.org/dr20/ #dr20
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Data Release 20 - SDSS
DR20 is the second data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR20 data release paper. What's New in DR20 Data Access Scope DR...
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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Really excited for #DR20 today from @sdssurveys.bsky.social. Over 50,000 white dwarf spectra, with many new ones from the Southern Hemisphere!
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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
✨ Our fantastic release elves are putting the finishing touches on SDSS DR20! While they work their magic, take a sneak peek at what the LVM part of DR20 has in store. #Astronomy#Astrophysics#SDSS#DataRelease#LVM#MilkyWay
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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
✨ SDSS DR20 is almost here! Get ready for a new release packed with exciting science and data products. While you wait, take a peek at what's coming in the DR20 paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26149 Stay tuned! 🚀 #Astronomy#Astrophysics#SDSS#DataRelease
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The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy survey that is mappi...
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Big day for us today at the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: it's Data Release Day! Our twentieth(!!!) data release will go out later today, with lots of spectra and catalogs of stars, galaxies and quasars, and some new webtools! Our DR20 paper has all the details: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26149 #DR20
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The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy survey that is mappi...
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Alex Ji @alexji.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Two new pipelines for @sdssurveys.bsky.social with great names: BOSS-CLAM arxiv.org/abs/2607.22822 and Payne4GAIN arxiv.org/abs/2607.22499 Coming to you in DR20 this week!!
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BOSS-CLAM: Utilizing a Constrained Linear Absorption Model to Infer Stellar Parameters from BOSS Spectra
Large spectroscopic surveys require robust pipelines capable of inferring stellar parameters over a wide range of the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram from data of varying quality. SDSS-V is one such ...
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Last day! Come by the SDSS booth for our logo M&Ms #aas248
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Come visit our friendly booth at #aas248 - and there are 3 plates left to win in the axe-throwing competition.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Carnegie fellows in the house #aas248
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Caltech is dominating in our booth at #aas248
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At AAS in Pasadena? Come find us at booth #248! Throw an axe for a chance to win an SDSS plate!
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Fast and furious! Check out this discovery of the fastest ultraviolet wind ever detected near a supermassive black hole, with gas racing at 30% of the speed of light! www.yorku.ca/news/2026/06...
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Fastest and most furious ultraviolet wind near a black hole found by York University researchers - News@York
A team led by York University researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black hole ever found at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by the disc of matter, or quasar, surrounding the...
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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Incredibly proud to see the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's transformative approaches to data-sharing and public outreach highlighted in the Sloan Foundation's 2025 report. 🔭 🫶 @sdssurveys.bsky.social sloan.org/storage/app/...
The SDSS telescope at Apache Point Observatory is pictured as it takes calibration observations under the night sky.

The associated article's title reads: "Share Tactics -- How the Sloan Digital Sky Suvey's two-decade commitment to open data is revolutionizing astronomy"
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thank you to AAS Nova for highlighting the recent SDSS-V overview paper! Check out their article (and the overview paper!) to learn how SDSS is expanding our view of the universe through panoptic, spectroscopic mapping of the night sky. 🌌
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Exhibition of paintings inspired by @sdssurveys.bsky.social plug plates happening at UW in Seattle next month: uwplanetariumarts.myportfolio.com/constelacion... 👩‍🔬🔭
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UW Planetarium Arts - Constelaciones y Supernovas 2026
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
DocuCharm is almost done and we are a bit tired. Much was done, still have a long to-do list
A group of people looking very exhausted in front of their laptops
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Overheard as we document our Data Release 20 at DocuCharm : "I was trying to be artistic"
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Upping our game from yesterday
The flowchart is now in the computer
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Yesterday, we thought deeply at DocuCharm
A complicated flowchart on a whiteboard
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Back at it for DocuCharm
A roomful of people working, including people on a Zoom meeting in big screens
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
DocuCharm is going well. We are documenting the local brews
A selfie around a bar table with beer
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
At our Documentation workshop (DocuCharm) in Baltimore. The power going into typing away at webpages, wikis, GitHub, etc could power a small city
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a black cat is playing with an apple laptop computer .
Alt: a black cat with adorable white paws that remind me of my cat Adelie is typing furiously on an apple laptop computer .
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We have 470 webpages to update for Data Release 20. Which is in July.
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and saying everything is fine .
Alt: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and saying everything is fine .
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sad news today about the passing of Don York, an absolutely vital part of SDSS: news.uchicago.edu/story/donald...
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Donald G. York, co-founder of Sloan Digital Sky Survey and ‘visionary’ astronomer, 1944-2025
UChicago professor emeritus helped transform modern astronomy, mapped interstellar medium
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We are devastated to learn that Patrick Gaulme ((@patrickgaulme.bsky.social) has passed away. He had an illustrious career in planetary and red giant seismology and was an Astronomer for SDSS-IV. He was awarded Architect status in SDSS-IV for all of his work on observations.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Thank you!
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Niall Deacon @nialldeacon.com · 11/07/2025
With the release of DR19 of @sdssurveys.bsky.social we published a suite of tutorials to help astronomers use the data. I’d like to highlight two tutorials that are a little different and are targeted at introductory astronomy undergrad classes. 1/4
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
DR19 also includes nine brand-new Value Added Catalogs (VACs). These catalogs are based on SDSS-V spectra and data products, and produced by SDSS-V collaboration members. Find these 9, and the 67 VACs from earlier data releases all here: www.sdss.org/dr19/data_ac... #DR19
M-dwarf infrared spectrum in black, and model fit in red, showing good agreement. This figure is taken from Behmard et al. 2025, and their M-Dwarf VAC is available in DR19 from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/data_access/value-added-catalogs/, together with 8 other DR19 brand-new value added catalogs.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
@localvolumemapper.bsky.social is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and other Local Volume Galaxies. Read more about what they are doing here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/abo... #DR19
This image shows the Orion Nebula as observed by Local Volume Mapper, and published in Kreckel et al. 2024 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...689A.352K/abstract). Different emission lines (hydrogen, silicon and oxygen) are represented with different colour, tracing the ionisation structure of the nebula, carving a bubble in the surrounding dense gas shown by WISE 12micrometer imaging. The ionized gas emission traces wispy, filamentary structures and dusty eroding clouds and clumps. Figure taken from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/about/.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
@blackholemapper.bsky.social had already released a few spectra in DR18, but they are going all out for DR19, with lots of galaxy and quasar spectra #DR19
This image shows the location of Black Hole Mapper targets on the sky, with each purple point depicting an object. All fields are in the North taken with the Sloan Telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, US. Fields in the South by the du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory will be part of the next data release, DR20. There is a pink blob around right ascension = 9 hours, which are the eFEDS fields (eROSITA Full Equatorial Depth Survey) released in DR18. Figure taken from https://www.sdss.org/dr19/bhm/
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Yesterday we released our nineteenth data release into the wild: www.sdss.org/dr19, let’s now take a closer look on what is in this data release. #DR19
The figure is the banner from the SDSS website www.sdss.org. In the middle it has an image of the Milky Way, showing the bulge, disc and dust lanes. On the left we see an stylised version of the Hertzsprung Russel diagram, while on the right the image transforms into the cosmic web. This image showcases the range of science covered by the three mapper programs in SDSS-V.
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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨ Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...
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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉 For the first time, LVM data is released. Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨ A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19
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Data Release 19 - SDSS
DR19 is the second data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR19 data release paper. What's New in DR19 Data Access Scope DR...
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SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper @localvolumemapper.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Discover the ✨amazing✨ possibilities of LVM in this image of IC 434 in the Orion constellation, featuring the Horsehead Nebula emerging on the left (credit: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26...). Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...
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Jennifer Johnson @jajohnson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
So many webpages........
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the sky with multi-object...
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
How do astronomers decide that objects to observe? You and your students can now map the cosmos with our new card game. We've distributed copies of to several SDSS institutions and anyone can download and print their own copy from the link below voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act...
Decks of cards marked Event, Time and Science Goal. Some of the cards lie face up. A scoresheet lies next to the cards.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Want to hear about how SDSS scientists are studying huge bubbles and shockwaves in the Milky Way and beyond? Then come to our public talk next Wednesday evening at Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg. The talk will be in German
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We love to see it Alex! Congratulations! Because nucleosynthesis is still spectacular! #barbenheimerstar
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you have a chance to see the incredible @emilyjogriffith.bsky.social give a Planetarium talk -- DO IT!!!! She is one of our fearless leaders in SDSS working toward understanding our Milky Way!
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who loves stars and sees nothing but 💗 in their CMDs, HRDs, MHDs, PhDs, etc.
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The return-on-investment for the SDSS surveys is truly extraordinary. It is mid-scale, it is efficient, it is open, it is reasonable, it is diverse, it is inclusive. All of the data is returned to all of humanity for the benefit all of humanity. Join us!
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Sloan Digital Sky Surveys @sdssurveys.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Love this account, especially when they show the picture of a galaxy that we took 🔭📷
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