Milky Way!

Milky Way!

Recent scholarship suggests the Milky Way was represented in Ancient Egypt as early as 1077–943 BCE. The sky goddess, Nut, was sometimes depicted with an “undulating black curve,” thought to symbolize the Great Rift, a ribbon of dark space that divides the Milky Way.

And Data Release 19 from @sdssurveys.bsky.social is live to the whole world: www.sdss.org/dr19/

It's data release day!

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

Not *all* the surveys #MilkyWay23 🔭🌌

We need start the game that whenever someone shows the Robert Hurt artist's conception of the Milky Way at #MilkyWay23, everyone gets a chocolate treat.

An entire conference devote to "Surveying the Milky Way". #MilkyWay23. We will be wallowing for the next week. Please excuse us. 🤩🌌