Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Pictured above is the 2.5-meter telescope poised to create the most ambitious sky map in the history of astronomy. SDSS is expected to store about 200 Gigabytes of data each night. Astronomers will work to cull from this information an unprecedented three-dimensional view of our local universe. However, the SDSS may one day be remembered not only for the hundreds of millions of objects which it could see, but for how it indicated the nature and composition of the rest of the universe which it could not see.
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