The first data published to produce the first map of the hidden Milky Way

Scientists in the international SDSS-III collaboration working with the APOGEE spectrograph.//Dan Long(Apache Point Observatory). High resolution image at: http://bit.ly/sdssdr10image2
Scientists in the international SDSS-III collaboration working with the APOGEE spectrograph.//Dan Long(Apache Point Observatory). High resolution image at: http://bit.ly/sdssdr10image2
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The international SDSS-III collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is a participant, publishes observations of 60 000 stars in our Galaxy.

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