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Lawrence Berkeley Lab releases first part of space survey to general public

For each 15-minute exposure of the deep sky, astronomers plug a thousand optical fibers into a plate that fits at the focal plane of the Sloan Telescope. Each fiber feeds the light of an individual galaxy to BOSS’s advanced spectrograph.
Dan Long, Apache Point Observatory/Courtesy
For each 15-minute exposure of the deep sky, astronomers plug a thousand optical fibers into a plate that fits at the focal plane of the Sloan Telescope. Each fiber feeds the light of an individual galaxy to BOSS’s advanced spectrograph.

BOSS uses the wide-field Sloan telescope located at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico to map the night sky for data on the spectra of distant objects. Read More…