SDSS Data Art
With science communicators, artists, programmers, and mathematicians from all over, we are developing an interactive web and gallery based audiovisual platform driven by data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope, which has created the most detailed 3D maps of the universe ever made.
We are recruiting mathematicians experienced in Graph Theory to join our team.
Our Role
Advanced Technology
Strategic Partnerships
History of SDSS
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has created the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe ever made, with deep multi-color images of one third of the sky, and spectra for more than three million astronomical objects. The SDSS began regular survey operations in 2000 after a decade of design and construction and has progressed through several phases. Each of these phases has involved multiple surveys with interlocking science goals including surveying galaxies and quasars to measure the Universe, exploring the Milky Way from both hemispheres, mapping the inner workings of thousands of nearby galaxies, and discovering the Universe at all scales. Learn more.
Lead Artist
A creative inspired by the latest technologies, Kavya combines her interests in drawing and painting, music composition and violin, physics communication and coding to communicate in imaginative ways through expressions and movements. Kavya was a 2018 Junior Breakthrough Challenge Finalist and currently pursues physics at University of Delhi.
Kavya Negi, ISM Fellow
Call for Mathematicians
We are looking for mathematicians experienced in Graph Theory to work with us to interpolate black holes data, which will assist in designing an interface for the public to engage meaningfully with science. Explore SDSS Data Access.
Lead Artist
A creative inspired by the latest technologies, Kavya combines her interests in drawing and painting, music composition and violin, physics communication and coding to communicate in imaginative ways through expressions and movements. Kavya was a 2018 Junior Breakthrough Challenge Finalist and currently pursues physics at University of Delhi.
Kavya Negi, ISM Fellow
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team's work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, imaging millions of stars, black holes and galaxies in unprecedented detail. If we maintain our pace, she says, we can map every large galaxy in the observable universe by 2060. "We've gone from arranging clamshells to general relativity in a few thousand years," she says. "If we hang on 40 more, we can map all the galaxies."