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Juna A. Kollmeier, et al.: Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06989 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.06989

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy. Juna A. Kollmeier et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989

Reminding you that what makes @sdssurveys.bsky.social data releases special (and particularly awesome) is that we don't just give you a ton of data that only a black-belt pro can use, but we give you tutorials and value-added catalogs and data that are actually USABLE not just public.

@sdssurveys.bsky.social will be taking data through 2027 and is pioneering the spectroscopic panopticon! Our @milkywaymapper.bsky.social *ALONE* will have >7 million stars total and >4 million with very high resolution spectra! Join us!

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

Also, check out his amazing video visualising the @milkywaymapper.bsky.social survey on our YouTube Channel, by Szabolcs Mészáros of the MWM Survey Calibration working group: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w2...

🔭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...

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... 💻

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w2... @sdssurveys.bsky.social DR19 stars in the @milkywaymapper.bsky.social! There are a LOT more stars to come in SDSS-V, but this visualization by Szabolcs Mészáros, and Vanda Lendvai is quite beautiful.

Need something awesome to cleanse a dystopian timeline? Here you go! Have fun storming the castle!

If you love your data, set it free!

It's data release day!

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...

Map all the things. arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989

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

Wanna try your hand at Sky Mapping, but don't have your own telescope? Play "Mapping the Cosmos" designed by @sdssurveys.bsky.social EPO Coordinator @nialldeacon.com! Download for free here: voyages.sdss.org/hands-on-act... or contact Niall to get a copy!

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!

We love to see it Alex! Congratulations! Because nucleosynthesis is still spectacular! #barbenheimerstar

This is the main character, Juna! The clumsy girl who drops her coffee and destroys the world🫠 #oc #art #concept #conceptart #illustration #digitalart #sketch #gamedev #indiedev #indie #godot

Night at the Museum! www.lacma.org/event/galler... We'll reflect on cosmic history and on the global human struggle to understand it throughout space and time.

The @sdssurveys.bsky.social Local Volume Mapper is meeting in La Serena -- love this! Image credit: J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado.

Our @sdssurveys.bsky.social booth "theme" was "Keep Looking Up!" or alternately "Think outside the box (that is your office/computer)" We can't stomach the large fees for rental equipment on site, so this year, we ordered camping gear and raffled it off to early-career scientists (1/n) #aas245

"Juna is obviously 100% right" --email today from an esteemed colleague I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead for today! Happy Friday people! ❤️🤓

Happy Birthday to Emily Dickinson who captured the theoretical mindset so well in her work! December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886 🎂✏️💻

Welp, the Local Volume Mapper data is officially, amazing. See the gif below dropped into the SDSS team slack courtesy of the outstanding Dr. Ivan Katkov from New York University Abu Dhabi. Holy smokes. Join us!

WE. NEED. NEW. ACADEMIC. INSTITUTIONS. medium.com/@thejunavers...

www.ted.com/talks/juna_k... Make maps, not war. Still.

If you are following me here, you should know that I find "social media" deeply, fundamentally, and wrongly anti-social. It's not that I don't love you. ❤️❤️❤️

The Ring of Power in Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" comes from Book 2 of Plato's most famous Dialogue "The Republic" where Socrates tells the story of Gyges - a shepherd who steals it off a dead guy in a tomb revealed after an earthquake File Under: Things I didn't know until 2024

King Ludwig was murdered by the German Deep State for spending too much money trying to impress his boyfriend Richard Wagner. File this under: Things I didn't know until 2024

If you are in LA and you haven't experienced Josiah McElheny's Island Universe at the LACMA, you aren't living in LA -- you are existing in LA. (Is that enough hyperbole for modernity?)

A couple of our favorite t🔭