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featuring an SDSS observing plate, on display in the Byre Theatre in St Andrews (UK), November 2015. Credit: T. Fitzpatrick" class="wp-image-255" style="width:505px;height:328px" width="505" height="328"/></figure></div> <p>The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is committed to working towards making the science and engineering results of our surveys accessible to the public. We are also enthusiastic about supporting the use of SDSS data for training and education. We aim to do this through informal and formal education, citizen science, news, and social media. A selection of our Education and Public Engagement activities are described below.</p> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">SDSS in Schools</h2> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" src="https://voyages.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/60high.png" alt="The SDSS voyages logo" style="width:264px;height:45px" width="264" height="45"/></figure></div> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voyages.sdss.org" target="_blank">SDSS Voyages</a> is a custom resource for education focused explorers of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Specifically designed to meet the needs of educators, SDSS Voyages provides the pathways and supporting resources needed to enable student-led discovery of a variety of astronomical phenomena using the same data utilized by professional astronomers. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/es" target="_blank">Spanish language versions of these resources</a> are now available!</p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/">Explore SDSS Voyages</a></div> </div> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-full"><img decoding="async" width="300" height="273" src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IAUplate1_cropped-300x273-1.jpeg" alt="Three people, including Karen Masters, pose with an SDSS plate" class="wp-image-3188"/></figure></div> <p>Through our program “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/for-educators/sdss-plates-for-education/" target="_blank">Plates for Education</a>” we distribute used plug plates to educators at formal and informal educational institutions. Plates are distributed via <a href="/collaboration/">SDSS Institutions</a> and accompanied by a custom-made poster showing the patch of sky the plate was used to observe, a package of educational materials, and training on the use of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/" target="_blank">SDSS Voyages</a>.</p> <p>If you are interested in participating in this program, please <a href="/education/#connect">contact us</a>, and we will help to link you to your nearest <a href="/collaboration/affiliate-institutions/">SDSS Institution</a>.</p> <div style="height:19px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">SDSS in Undergraduate Education</h2> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="275" height="206" src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/fast-sdss.png" alt="The FAST logo" class="wp-image-3187"/></figure></div> <p>The SDSS <a href="/education/faculty-and-student-team-fast-initiative/">Faculty and Student Team</a> (FAST) program works with faculty and their students at US institutions with strong track records of serving underrepresented minority students.</p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="/education/faculty-and-student-team-fast-initiative/">FAST Program</a></div> </div> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">SDSS SkyServer and SciServer</h2> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://skyserver.sdss.org" target="_blank">SDSS SkyServer</a> hosts all the latest data from SDSS, freely available for all to use. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/" target="_blank">SDSS Voyages</a> provides a user-friendly introduction to SkyServer tools, in addition to educational guides and projects designed to help new users explore the data. Some of the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/expeditions/" target="_blank">Voyages Expeditions</a> may also be suitable for use in college-level astronomy labs.</p> <p>A growing set of Jupyter notebooks for use with the <a href="https://sciserver.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">SciServer</a> platform are being developed for use in college astronomy lab courses, including introductory notebooks on <a href="https://github.com/ritatojeiro/SDSSEPO" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">galaxies</a> and <a href="https://github.com/nialldeacon/SDSS_EPO" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">stars</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/brittlundgren/SDSS-EPO" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a broader set of upper-level college course</a> notebooks. These Python-based activities, which are designed to be run in the cloud from your web browser, enable the analysis and visualization of the vast SDSS dataset without the need for any additional software or data downloads.</p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="https://voyages.sdss.org/">Voyages</a></div> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="https://www.sciserver.org/outreach">SDSS university-level labs</a></div> </div> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Public Engagement with SDSS</h2> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><a href="https://www.galaxyzoo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/galaxy-zoo.jpg" alt="Galaxy Zoo logo" class="wp-image-2146" style="width:286px;height:111px" width="286" height="111"/></a></figure></div> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.galaxyzoo.org" target="_blank">Galaxy Zoo</a> launched in 2007 to deal with the 1 million images in the SDSS Main Galaxy Sample. It’s now the most productive citizen science project in existence, and this success spawned a “Zooniverse” of other citizen science projects across all areas of science. Join more than a million members of the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.zooniverse.org" target="_blank">Zooniverse</a> to do real science online at the Zooniverse.</p> <div class="clearfix"></div> <p>Additionally, the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.zooteach.org/" target="_blank">Zooteach website</a> includes lesson plans and ideas to use Zooniverse projects (including Galaxy Zoo) in education.</p> <p>SDSS has also inspired various artists, and some of their work can be admired at the <a href="/education/sdss-in-art/">SDSS in Art</a> page.</p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="https://www.zooniverse.org/">Explore the Zooinverse</a></div> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="/education/sdss-in-art/">SDSS in Art</a></div> </div> <p></p> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sensing the Dynamic Universe</h3> <div class="wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:33.33%"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-medium"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="287" height="300" src="https://test.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SDUlogo2020sep22-287x300.png" alt="" class="wp-image-3789" srcset="https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SDUlogo2020sep22-287x300.png 287w, https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SDUlogo2020sep22.png 470w" sizes="(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px" /></figure> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:66.66%"> <p>The <a href="http://cfa.harvard.edu/sdu">Sensing the Dynamic Universe</a> (SDU) project is an engaging new website with sonified videos and accompanying explanations exploring the multitude of celestial variables and transients such as stars, supernovae, quasars, gamma ray bursts and more.  The SDU project presents the astrophysics of variables and transients to the general public, with particular attention to accessibility for those with visual and/or neurological differences.  We directly translate intensity to pitch to sonify the lightcurves and spectra.  Most of the variables have sonified spectra from SDSS, in particular the <a href="https://www.sdss4.org/surveys/eboss/#tdss" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey.</a> Light curves are predominantly from the <a href="https://www.ztf.caltech.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Zwicky Transient Facility</a> or <a href="http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/DataRelease/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Catalina Sky Survey. </a></p> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/sdu/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sensing the Dynamic Universe</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix"> </div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="map">Map of the Universe</h3> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignright size-full"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MapoftheUniverse-beautiful-2k.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="400" height="295" src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MapoftheUniverse-beautiful-tn.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2987" srcset="https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MapoftheUniverse-beautiful-tn.png 400w, https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MapoftheUniverse-beautiful-tn-300x221.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The SDSS map of the universe (<a href="/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MapoftheUniverse-beautiful-2k.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click for a larger version</a>)<br></figcaption></figure></div> <p>SDSS researchers and developers led by Brice M茅nard of Johns Hopkins University have created <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://mapoftheuniverse.net/" target="_blank">the most detailed and accurate map</a> of the universe ever devised, from near-Earth asteroids to distant quasars. You can explore the map, read about each feature, and download a poster showing the entire map. </p> <p>You can also read about how M茅nard and his colleagues created this new map from the <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/11/17/interactive-universe-map/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">press release from Johns Hopkins University</a>.</p> <p>Visit <a href="https://mapoftheuniverse.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">mapoftheuniverse.net</a></p> <div class="wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex"> <div class="wp-block-button"><a class="wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color wp-element-button" href="https://mapoftheuniverse.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mapoftheuniverse.net</a></div> </div> <div class='clearfix'></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/> <p>Do you want to carry around the SDSS Universe on a t-shirt, mug or tote bag? Then please visit our <a href="https://www.cafepress.com/sdss" class="broken_link">shop</a>, and help us celebrate and learn about our mission to map the Universe: from planets to stars, galaxies and distant black holes. All profits go to help fund our educational programs as well as efforts to improve the diversity of scientists engaged in our surveys.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="350" height="350" src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug.png" alt="a mug showing the SDSS telescope and text reading 'SDSS surveys, mapping the universe while we still can' " class="wp-image-3190" srcset="https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug.png 350w, https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug-300x300.png 300w, https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></figure></div> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="350" height="350" src="/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug2.png" alt="Same mug from the other side" class="wp-image-3191" srcset="https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug2.png 350w, https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug2-300x300.png 300w, https://www.sdss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SDSS_mug2-150x150.png 150w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px" /></figure> <p></p> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-css-opacity"/> <p>Scroll through the SDSS Skies with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://skyserver.sdss.org/public/VisualTools/navi/" target="_blank">SkyServer Navigate</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Any SDSS image on the SDSS Web site may be downloaded, linked to, or otherwise used provided that you maintain the image credits (unless otherwise stated, images should be credited to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, or SDSS) and link back to our site at <a href=""></a>.</p> <p>We have recently changed our license. 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