Talk:Sloan Digital Sky Survey

License?
I would appreciate an addition of licensing details under the "Data access" section. It would be informative as well as aiding Wikipedia editors in seeing whether their images can be used here or not. -- Northgrove 23:14, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Aw, found out that it may not be used commercially without written permission, so it's not GFDL compatible. Bummer. :-( -- Northgrove 23:16, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

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Pea galaxies
I have added a link in the "See also" section to the "Pea galaxy" article as I'm sure that it is relevant to this subject. Richard Nowell (talk) 11:34, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that the following be merged into Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A separate article is unnecessary. A section within the destination article would best serve visitors.


 * Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey
 * Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
 * Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
 * Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration 2

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:14, 11 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I think that would be fine. Unless the individual surveys articles are expanded on, they can be folded into the SDSS article just fine. Once the projects proposed for after SDSS-III start, we could add them to their own sections, though that would start to get a bit long. - Parejkoj (talk) 04:35, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

✅ Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:52, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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Update needed
This article apparently has not been significantly updated since the SDSS-III completed in 2014. I've changed the tense of the prose in that section, but I will leave it to others more familiar with the subject matter to update and add to the information contained therein, based on what was actually observed. (And soon the SDSS-IV section will have to be similarly updated.) - dcljr (talk) 03:55, 30 January 2020 (UTC)


 * ScienceDaily reported that a purported BAO structure was detected in 2016 from Sloan data, and named Hoʻoleilana in 2023. See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/09/230905202510.htm and also https://www.sci.news/astronomy/hooleilana-12250.html. The 2016 discoverers (Einasto et al.) did not believe it to be a BAO shell. Beyond that I couldn't understand the original journal article, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aceaf3 ~ 2601:441:5000:13E0:B194:985F:2FF7:147 (talk) 15:24, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

‘Fossil galaxy’ news item to consider for APOGEE section
A ‘fossil galaxy’ hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way, news item, November 21, 2020. Referenced to an Arxiv preprint of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: arxiv.org/abs/2007.10374 Interesting work. --Pete Tillman (talk) 18:11, 21 November 2020 (UTC)