The Sloan Digital Sky Survey an ongoing effort to map the universe by an international collaboration that includes Penn State scientists has developed a new system of robots for their telescopes that will replace a time-intensive manual process. The new system will improve the collaboration's ability to study galaxies and black holes in our galaxy.
Thanks to a breakthrough robotic innovation, an international collaboration that includes the University of Toronto has advanced the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a 20-year-long research project that has been investigating the structure and evolution of our cosmic home, the Milky Way galaxy.