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Mapping the heavens: Xiaohui Fan and David Law reflect on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

24 Jan 2017

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has been working since the start of the millennium to create a “map” of the universe. During that time, hundreds of astronomers have built their careers on its data. Here, two of them, Xiaohui Fan and David Law, reflect on how the collaboration shaped their development as researchers

The SDSS telescope
Data capture The SDSS telescope is located at Apache Point Observatory (APO) in Sunspot, New Mexico. (Courtesy: SDSS/David Kirkby)
Physics World: How did you get involved in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)? Xiaohui Fan: In 1994

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Xiaohui Fan is a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, US. David Law is an assistant astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, US
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