SDSS-III Luminous Galaxies (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

SDSS-III Luminous Galaxies

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III surveyed 14,000 square degrees of the sky, more than a third of its total area, and delivered over a trillion pixels of imaging data. This image shows over a million luminous galaxies at redshifts indicating times when the universe was between seven and eleven billion years old, from which the sample in the current studies was selected.

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David Kirkby of the University of California at Irvine and the SDSS collaboration

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