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Mapping The Universe: with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS Data Release 4)
02:43  - 4 years ago
An Astronomy documentary concerning recent progress in observational cosmology. This movie presents the story of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's mapping of the galaxy distribution. It flys you backward through over half a million galaxies and quasars mapped by the SDSS Survey, and finally through the Cosmic Microwave Backround mapped by NASA's WMAP satellite. Finally it returns to the control room at Apache Point Observatory.
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