After 21 years of observers loading heavy aluminum plates night after night, the cosmos are now visible through robotic eyes.
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SDSS-V’s robots turn their eyes to the sky
New effort to map the universe, unravel mysteries of ‘dark energy’
The international collaboration that includes the University of Utah aims to construct a 3-D map of the universe in more detail than ever before.
Largest 3-D map of the universe ever created
The results are measurements of more than 2 million galaxies and quasars covering 11 billion years of cosmic time.