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What can I see on SkyServer?

April 26, 2017skyserver

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What can I see on SkyServer?

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SkyServer offers two types of data: images and spectra. Images are pictures of the night sky taken by our digital camera. Spectra are measurements of the amount of light a star or galaxy gives off at different wavelengths. SkyServer has images of about 300 million stars and galaxies, and spectra for about 1,163,520. For more about our data, see the Getting Started pages (link opens in a new window). SkyServer offers photometric and spectroscopic data, preview images and spectra, and links to FITS images and spectra. The SkyServer main page leads to data from the most current SDSS data release, but data for all previous releases are still available at http://skyserver.sdss.org/DRX, where X is the release number.