Almost a Million Stars and Counting: Mapping the history of the Milky Way with APOGEE and beyond

Almost a Million Stars and Counting: Mapping the history of the Milky Way with APOGEE and beyond

Space Daily

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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2022

On December 6th 2021, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released the largest-ever detailed census of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, with the complete release of data from its Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). "For the last decade we have been working to map the Milky Way, and measure extremely detailed properties of the stars within it,"

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