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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Fermi%27s_Gamma-ray_Pulsars.jpg/330px-Fermi%27s_Gamma-ray_Pulsars.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Fermi%27s_Gamma-ray_Pulsars.jpg/440px-Fermi%27s_Gamma-ray_Pulsars.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2552" data-file-height="1374" /></a><figcaption>Gamma-ray pulsars detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope</figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>astronomical survey</b> is a general <a href="/wiki/Celestial_cartography" title="Celestial cartography">map</a> or <a href="/wiki/Astrophotography" title="Astrophotography">image</a> of a region of the <a href="/wiki/Sky" title="Sky">sky</a> (or of the whole sky) that lacks a specific observational target. Alternatively, an astronomical survey may comprise a set of images, spectra, or other observations of objects that share a common type or feature. Surveys are often restricted to one band of the <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum" title="Electromagnetic spectrum">electromagnetic spectrum</a> due to instrumental limitations, although multiwavelength surveys can be made by using multiple detectors, each sensitive to a different bandwidth.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Surveys have generally been performed as part of the production of an <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_catalog" title="Astronomical catalog">astronomical catalog</a>. They may also search for <a href="/wiki/Transient_astronomical_event" class="mw-redirect" title="Transient astronomical event">transient astronomical events</a>. They often use wide-field <a href="/wiki/Astrograph" title="Astrograph">astrographs</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scientific_value">Scientific value</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_survey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Scientific value"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sky surveys, unlike targeted observation of a specific object, allow astronomers to catalog celestial objects and perform statistical analyses on them without complex corrections for <a href="/wiki/Selection_effects" class="mw-redirect" title="Selection effects">selection effects</a>. In some cases, an astronomer interested in a particular object will find that survey images are sufficient to make new telescope time entirely unnecessary. </p><p>Surveys also help astronomers choose targets for closer study using larger, more powerful telescopes. If previous observations support a hypothesis, a telescope scheduling committee is more likely to approve new, more detailed observations to test it. </p><p>The wide scope of surveys makes them ideal for finding foreground objects that move, such as asteroids and comets. An astronomer can compare existing survey images to current observations to identify changes; this task can even be performed automatically using <a href="/wiki/Image_analysis" title="Image analysis">image analysis</a> software. </p><p>Besides science, these surveys also detect <a href="/wiki/Potentially_hazardous_object" title="Potentially hazardous object">potentially hazardous objects</a>, providing a service to <a href="/wiki/Spaceguard" title="Spaceguard">Spaceguard</a>. For example, the <a href="/wiki/Asteroid_Terrestrial-impact_Last_Alert_System" title="Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System">Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System</a> (ATLAS) system surveys the entire night sky every night and, like <a href="/wiki/NEOSTEL" title="NEOSTEL">NEOSTEL</a>, is intended to detect objects as they approach. Broader surveys include the <a href="/wiki/Uppsala%E2%80%93DLR_Asteroid_Survey" title="Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey">Uppsala–DLR Asteroid Survey</a> and the 20th-century <a href="/wiki/U.K._Schmidt%E2%80%93Caltech_Asteroid_Survey" title="U.K. Schmidt–Caltech Asteroid Survey">U.K. Schmidt–Caltech Asteroid Survey</a>. Old surveys can be reviewed to find <a href="/wiki/Precovery" title="Precovery">precovery</a> images. </p><p>Similarly, images of the same object taken by different surveys can be compared to detect <a href="/wiki/Transient_astronomical_event" class="mw-redirect" title="Transient astronomical event">transient astronomical events</a> such as variable stars.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_sky_surveys">List of sky surveys</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_survey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: List of sky surveys"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg/400px-Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg/600px-Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg/800px-Uncertain_size-frequency_distribution_of_interstellar_visitors.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2567" data-file-height="1817" /></a><figcaption>Spectrum of types of observations of <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a> objects.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg/220px-A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg/330px-A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg/440px-A_large_slice_of_the_Universe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3371" data-file-height="1309" /></a><figcaption>The positions in space of just some of the galaxies identified by the VIPERS survey (see <a href="/wiki/Visible_Multi_Object_Spectrograph" title="Visible Multi Object Spectrograph">Visible Multi Object Spectrograph</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Astronomical_surveys" title="Category:Astronomical surveys">Category:Astronomical surveys</a></div> <ul><li>Optical <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hipparchus" title="Hipparchus">Hipparchus</a> - created the first known star catalogue with more than 850 stars. The data was incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/Almagest" title="Almagest">Almagest</a> along with the first list of <a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">stellar magnitudes</a> and was the primary astronomical reference until modern times, 190-120 BC.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonner_Durchmusterung" class="mw-redirect" title="Bonner Durchmusterung">Bonner Durchmusterung</a> - whole-sky astrometric star catalog, 1859–1903</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carte_du_Ciel" title="Carte du Ciel">Astrographic Catalogue</a> - international astronomical survey of the entire sky. The survey was performed by 18 observatories using over 22,000 photographic plates. The results have been the basis of comparison for all subsequent surveys, 1887–1975.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Draper_Catalogue" title="Henry Draper Catalogue">Henry Draper Catalogue</a> - spectral classifications based on photographic plates, 1918–1924, extension 1925–1936</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalina_Sky_Survey" title="Catalina Sky Survey">Catalina Sky Survey</a> - an astronomical survey to discover comets and asteroids.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-Andromeda_Archaeological_Survey" title="Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey">Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_Society_%E2%80%93_Palomar_Observatory_Sky_Survey" title="National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey">National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey</a> (NGS–POSS) – survey of the northern sky on photographic plates, 1948–1958</li> <li><a href="/wiki/CfA_Redshift_Survey" title="CfA Redshift Survey">CfA Redshift Survey</a> – A program from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It began in 1977 to 1982 then from 1985 to 1995.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digitized_Sky_Survey" title="Digitized Sky Survey">Digitized Sky Survey</a> – optical all-sky survey created from digitized photographic plates, 1994</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2dF_Galaxy_Redshift_Survey" title="2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey">2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey</a> (2dfGRS) – redshift survey conducted by the Anglo-Australian Observatory between 1997 and 2002</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sloan_Digital_Sky_Survey" title="Sloan Digital Sky Survey">Sloan Digital Sky Survey</a> (SDSS) – an optical and spectroscopic survey, 2000–2006 (first pass)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Photopic_Sky_Survey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Photopic Sky Survey (page does not exist)">Photopic Sky Survey</a> – a survey with 37,440 individual exposures, 2010–2011.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DEEP2_Redshift_Survey" title="DEEP2 Redshift Survey">DEEP2 Redshift Survey</a> (DEEP2) – Used <a href="/wiki/Keck_Telescopes" class="mw-redirect" title="Keck Telescopes">Keck Telescopes</a> to measure redshift of 50,000 galaxies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VIMOS-VLT_Deep_Survey" title="VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey">VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey</a> (VVDS) – Franco-Italian study using the <a href="/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope" title="Very Large Telescope">Very Large Telescope</a> at <a href="/wiki/Paranal_Observatory" title="Paranal Observatory">Paranal Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palomar_Distant_Solar_System_Survey" title="Palomar Distant Solar System Survey">Palomar Distant Solar System Survey</a> (PDSSS)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WiggleZ_Dark_Energy_Survey" title="WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey">WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (2006–2011) used the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Astronomical_Observatory" title="Australian Astronomical Observatory">Australian Astronomical Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_Energy_Survey" title="Dark Energy Survey">Dark Energy Survey</a> (DES)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a survey about one-tenth of the sky to find clues to the characteristics of dark energy.-</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calar_Alto_Legacy_Integral_Field_Area_Survey" title="Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey">Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey</a> (CALIFA) – a spectroscopic survey of galaxies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SAGES_Legacy_Unifying_Globulars_and_GalaxieS_Survey" title="SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey">SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS</a> (<a href="/wiki/SAGES_Legacy_Unifying_Globulars_and_GalaxieS_Survey" title="SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey">SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS Survey</a> (SLUGGS) survey<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – a near-infrared spectro-photometric survey of 25 nearby <a href="/wiki/Early-type_galaxies" class="mw-redirect" title="Early-type galaxies">early-type galaxies</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LAMOST" title="LAMOST">Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – an extra-galactic and stellar spectroscopic survey</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_INT_Photometric_H-Alpha_Survey" title="The INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey">IPHAS</a> and VPHAS+ – surveys of the Galactic bulge and inner disk using the <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton_Telescope" title="Isaac Newton Telescope">Isaac Newton Telescope</a> (north) and <a href="/wiki/VLT_Survey_Telescope" title="VLT Survey Telescope">VLT Survey Telescope</a> (south) in u, g, r, Hα, and i bands, 2003–present</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-STARRS" title="Pan-STARRS">Pan-STARRS</a> – a large-field survey system to look for transient and variable sources. 2010–present</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment" title="Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment">Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment</a> (OGLE) – large-scale variability sky survey (in I and V bands), 1992–present</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dark_Energy_Spectroscopic_Instrument#DESI_Legacy_Imaging_Surveys" title="Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument">DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys</a> (Legacy Surveys) - large imaging survey of the extragalactic sky, in three bands and covering one third of the sky, 2013–present</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globalsupernovasearchteam.space">GSNST - Global Supernovae Search Team</a> - an all sky survey launched in August 2018 to look for Astronomical Transients</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaia_catalogues" title="Gaia catalogues">Gaia catalogues</a> of over a billion parallax distances</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zwicky_Transient_Facility" title="Zwicky Transient Facility">Zwicky Transient Facility</a> (ZTF) - a wide-field sky astronomical survey of the northern transient sky, 2018–present</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory" title="Vera C. Rubin Observatory">Vera C. Rubin Observatory</a></li></ul></li> <li>Infrared <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg/220px-Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg/330px-Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg/440px-Massive_galaxies_discovered_in_the_early_Universe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="809" /></a><figcaption>Massive galaxies discovered in the early Universe of the UltraVISTA field.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IRAS" title="IRAS">Infrared Astronomical Satellite</a> did an all sky survey at 12, 25, 60, and 100 μm, 1983</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2MASS" title="2MASS">The 2-micron All-Sky Survey</a> (2MASS), a ground-based all sky survey at J, H, and Ks bands (1.25, 1.65, and 2.17 μm) 1997–2001</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akari_(Astro-F)" class="mw-redirect" title="Akari (Astro-F)">Akari (Astro-F)</a> a Japanese mid and far infrared all-sky survey satellite, 2006–2008</li> <li><a href="/wiki/WISE_mission" class="mw-redirect" title="WISE mission">Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer</a> (WISE) was launched in December 2009 to begin a survey of 99% of the sky at wavelengths of 3.3, 4.7, 12, and 23 μm. The telescope is over a thousand times as sensitive as previous infrared surveys. The initial survey, consisting of each sky position imaged at least eight times, was completed by July 2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UKIRT_Infrared_Deep_Sky_Survey" title="UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey">UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey</a> (UKIDSS) – a collection of ground based northern hemisphere surveys (GPS, GCS, LAS, DXS, UDS) using the <a href="/w/index.php?title=WFCAM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="WFCAM (page does not exist)">WFCAM</a> camera on <a href="/wiki/UKIRT" class="mw-redirect" title="UKIRT">UKIRT</a>, some wide and some very deep, in Z, Y, J, H, & K bands 2005–</li> <li><a href="/wiki/VISTA_(telescope)" title="VISTA (telescope)">VISTA</a> public surveys – a collection of ground based southern hemisphere surveys (<a href="/wiki/Vista_Variables_in_the_Via_Lactea" title="Vista Variables in the Via Lactea">VVV</a>, VMC, VHS, VIKING, VIDEO, UltraVISTA), of various areas and depths, in Z, Y, J, H, & Ks bands, 2009–present</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SCUBA-2_All_Sky_Survey" class="mw-redirect" title="SCUBA-2 All Sky Survey">SCUBA-2 All Sky Survey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope" title="Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope">Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope</a> to be launched in 2027</li></ul></li> <li>Radio <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third_Cambridge_Catalogue_of_Radio_Sources" title="Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources">Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources</a> ("3C") - Survey at 159 and 178 MHz published in 1959</li> <li><a href="/wiki/HIPASS" title="HIPASS">HIPASS</a> – Radio survey, the first blind <a href="/wiki/Hydrogen_line" title="Hydrogen line">HI</a> survey to cover the entire <a href="/wiki/Celestial_hemisphere" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial hemisphere">southern sky</a>. 1997–2002</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sao.ru/cats/doc/BOLOGNA.html">B2 — Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz</a> (9929 radio sources) performed with the <a href="/wiki/Medicina_Radio_Observatory" title="Medicina Radio Observatory">Northern Cross Radio Telescope</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sao.ru/cats/doc/BOLOGNA3.html">B3 — The New Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz</a> (13354 radio sources) performed with the <a href="/wiki/Medicina_Radio_Observatory" title="Medicina Radio Observatory">Northern Cross Radio Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Sky_Survey" title="Ohio Sky Survey">Ohio Sky Survey</a> – Over 19,000 radio sources at 1415 MHz. 1965–1973.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NRAO_VLA_Sky_Survey" title="NRAO VLA Sky Survey">NVSS</a> – Survey at 1.4 GHz mapping the sky north of −40 deg</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faint_Images_of_the_Radio_Sky_at_Twenty-Centimeters" title="Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters">FIRST</a> – Survey to look for faint radio sources at twenty cms.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_University_Molonglo_Sky_Survey" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey">SUMSS</a> - Survey at 843 MHz, mapping the sky south of -30 deg with similar sensitivity and resolution to the northern NVSS <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PALFA_Survey" title="PALFA Survey">PALFA Survey</a> – On-going 1.4 GHz survey for radio <a href="/wiki/Pulsar" title="Pulsar">pulsars</a> using the <a href="/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory" title="Arecibo Observatory">Arecibo Observatory</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GALEX_Arecibo_SDSS_Survey" title="GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey">GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey</a> GASS<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> designed to measure the neutral hydrogen content of a representative sample of ~1000 massive, galaxies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-Band_All_Sky_Survey" title="C-Band All Sky Survey">C-BASS</a> – On-going 5 GHz all sky survey to aid in the subtraction of galactic foregrounds from maps of the <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_Microwave_Background" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic Microwave Background">Cosmic Microwave Background</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_Map_of_the_Universe" title="Evolutionary Map of the Universe">EMU</a> – A large radio continuum survey covering 3/4 of the sky, expected to discover about 70 million galaxies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_Metrewave_Radio_Telescope" title="Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope">GMRT</a> - The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope's TGSS ADR mapped the sky at 150 MHz.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=High_Time_Resolution_Universe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="High Time Resolution Universe (page does not exist)">HTRU</a> – A pulsar and radio transients survey of the northern and southern sky using the Parkes Radio Telescope and the Effelsberg telescope.</li></ul></li> <li>Gamma-ray <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope" title="Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope">Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope</a>, formerly referred to as the "Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)." 2008–present; the goal for the telescope's lifetime is 10 years.</li></ul></li> <li>Multi-wavelength surveys <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_And_Mass_Assembly_survey" title="Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey">GAMA</a> – the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> combines data from a number of ground- and space-based observatories together with a large <a href="/wiki/Redshift_survey" title="Redshift survey">redshift survey</a>, performed at the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Australian_Telescope" title="Anglo-Australian Telescope">Anglo-Australian Telescope</a>. The resulting dataset aims to be a comprehensive resource for studying the physics of the galaxy population and underlying mass structures in the recent universe.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Observatories_Origins_Deep_Survey" title="Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey">GOODS</a> – The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey.</li> <li>COSMOS – The <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_Evolution_Survey" title="Cosmic Evolution Survey">Cosmic Evolution Survey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CANDELS" class="mw-redirect" title="CANDELS">CANDELS</a> - The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey</li> <li>(The latter three surveys are joining observations obtained from space with the <a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spitzer_Space_Telescope" title="Spitzer Space Telescope">Spitzer Space Telescope</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory" title="Chandra X-ray Observatory">Chandra X-ray Observatory</a> and the <a href="/wiki/XMM-Newton" title="XMM-Newton">XMM-Newton</a> satellite, with a large set of observations obtained with ground-based telescopes).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_3d_survey" title="Atlas 3d survey">Atlas 3d Survey</a> – sample of 260 galaxies for the Astrophysics project.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li>Planned <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory" title="Vera C. Rubin Observatory">Vera C. Rubin Observatory</a> – a proposed very large telescope designed to repeatedly survey the whole sky that is visible from its location</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Widefield_ASKAP_L-Band_Legacy_All-Sky_Blind_Survey" title="Widefield ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-Sky Blind Survey">Widefield ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-Sky Blind Survey</a> (WALLABY)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NEO_Surveyor" title="NEO Surveyor">NEO Surveyor</a> - mid-infrared survey focused on <a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_object" title="Near-Earth object">near-Earth objects</a>, with other objects also surveyed</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surveys_of_the_Magellanic_Clouds">Surveys of the Magellanic Clouds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_survey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Surveys of the Magellanic Clouds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Catalogues_of_H-%CE%B1_emission_stars_and_nebulae_in_the_Magellanic_Clouds&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Catalogues of H-α emission stars and nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds (page does not exist)">Catalogues of H-α emission stars and nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds</a> - published 1956 (Astrophys. J. Suppl., 2, 315)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MCELS_(Magellanic_Cloud_Emission-line_Survey)" class="mw-redirect" title="MCELS (Magellanic Cloud Emission-line Survey)">MCELS (Magellanic Cloud Emission-line Survey)</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Magellanic_Clouds_Photometric_Survey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey (page does not exist)">The Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey</a> – UBVI (optical)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Near_Infrared_Survey" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep Near Infrared Survey">Deep Near Infrared Survey</a> (DENIS) – near-IR</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Astronomical_survey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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