A three-panel image. The center panel shows a circle over part of the night sky. The left and right panels point to objects in the center panel. Left is an image and a spectrum of a quasar, right is an image and a spectrum of a white dwarf.

Next-gen astronomical survey makes its first observations toward a new understanding of the cosmos

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation collected its very first observations of the cosmos at 1:47 a.m. on October 24, 2020. As the world’s first all-sky time-domain spectroscopic survey, SDSS-V will provide groundbreaking insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies — like our own Milky Way — and of the supermassive black holes that lurk at their centers. También en Español

A three-panel image. The center panel shows a circle over part of the night sky. The left and right panels point to objects in the center panel. Left is an image and a spectrum of a quasar, right is an image and a spectrum of a white dwarf.

La próxima generación de estudios astronómicos realiza sus primeras observaciones para una nueva comprensión del cosmos

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La quinta generación del Sloan Digital Sky Survey recogió sus primeras observaciones del cosmos a la 1:47 a.m. del 24 de octubre de 2020. Este innovador estudio del cielo reforzará nuestra comprensión de la formación y evolución de las galaxias – incluyendo nuestra Vía Láctea – y los agujeros negros supermasivos que acechan en sus centros.