universe

SDSS-V’s robots turn their eyes to the sky

Lisa Potter
science writer, University of Utah Communications
January 13, 2022

After 21 years of observers loading heavy aluminum plates night after night, the cosmos are now visible through robotic eyes.

New effort to map the universe, unravel mysteries of ‘dark energy’

Lisa Potter
research communications, University of Utah Communications
May 25, 2021

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.

A bowtie-shaped spectral of lights representing the universe. The center is bright green, then radiates the hot pink, magenta, yellow, and then white and finally gray.

Largest 3-D map of the universe ever created

Adapted from a release by Jordan Raddick
SDSS public information officer
July 20, 2020

The results are measurements of more than 2 million galaxies and quasars covering 11 billion years of cosmic time.