Sonoma State University
December 1, 2003

Into the Depths of the Universe: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Dr. Stephanie Snedden
New Mexico State University

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Stephanie Snedden ('83) of New Mexico State University and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey will describe how positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects and distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars are being measured in the short span of five years.