🚀 The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is now available in SDSS-V DR20! Explore LVM's wide-field IFU observations to study star formation, the ionized interstellar medium, and the galaxy's chemical enrichment. ✨ Explore the data with LVMvis: dr20.sdss.org/lvmvis/ #SDSS #SDSSV #LVM #Astronomy #M33

🚀 The Trifid Nebula (M20) is now part of SDSS-V DR20! Explore reduced LVM IFU spectra and more to study the interplay of ionized gas, dust, and young stars in one of the Milky Way's most iconic star-forming regions. ✨ Explore with LVMvis: dr20.sdss.org/lvmvis/ #SDSS #SDSSV #LVM #Astronomy #M20

🚀 The Rosette Nebula is now available in SDSS-V DR20! Dive into LVM's wide-field IFU observations to investigate feedback from massive stars and the surrounding ionized gas. ✨ Explore with LVMvis: www.sdss.org/dr20/data_ac... #SDSS #SDSSV #LVM #Astronomy #RosetteNebula

🚀 SDSS-V DR20 includes a wealth of LVM observations for iconic targets including the Rosette, Trifid, Flame & Horsehead, and Helix Nebulae, as well as M33 and NGC 4945. Explore the LVM data interactively with LVMvis: dr20.sdss.org/lvmvis/ #Astronomy#Astrophysics#SDSS#LVM#DataRelease#Orion

Want to see our DR20 highlights? Have a look at our DR20 news item on our website: www.sdss.org/sdss-launche... #DR20

Want to see our DR20 data? Go to our Splash Page, which lists all the different ways that you can interact with SDSS data: dr20.sdss.org #DR20

🚀 SDSS-V Data Release 20 (DR20) is here! Check out our press releases highlighting some of the exciting science: ✨ DR20: www.sdss.org/sdss-launche... ✨ BHM: www.sdss.org/black-hole-m... ✨ LVM: www.sdss.org/local-volume... ✨ MWM: www.sdss.org/milky-way-ma... #Astronomy#Astrophysics#SDSS#DR20

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And we are live! Our twentieth data release, DR20, is now available on our website: www.sdss.org/dr20/ #dr20

✨ Our fantastic release elves are putting the finishing touches on SDSS DR20! While they work their magic, take a sneak peek at what the LVM part of DR20 has in store. #Astronomy#Astrophysics#SDSS#DataRelease#LVM#MilkyWay

Big day for us today at the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: it's Data Release Day! Our twentieth(!!!) data release will go out later today, with lots of spectra and catalogs of stars, galaxies and quasars, and some new webtools! Our DR20 paper has all the details: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26149 #DR20

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy survey that is mappi...

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✨ SDSS DR20 is almost here! Get ready for a new release packed with exciting science and data products. While you wait, take a peek at what's coming in the DR20 paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2607.26149 Stay tuned! 🚀 #Astronomy#Astrophysics#SDSS#DataRelease

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy survey that is mappi...

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📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V LVM: Verifying what, and where, the 'Galactic center lobe' is" (scixplorer.org/abs/2026A%26...) to learn how LVM helps unravel the nature of this "greatly confused loop" ✨🔭

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Helix Nebula Public data, Data Analysis Pipeline data products" (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026RMxA...) if you want to see a spectroscopic analysis of the released (SDSS-V, DR19) Helix Nebula LVM tile ✨🔭

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V LVM: A Spatially Resolved Study of the Physical Conditions and the Chemical Abundance Discrepancy in the Lagoon Nebula (M 8)" (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ....) if you want to read about the abundance discrepancy problem in the Lagoon Nebula with LVM ✨🔭

LVM Science Meeting ist happening at IAC in La Laguna ✨️ A week full of inspirational science talks and discussions on the wondeful island of Tenerife⛰️

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V LVM: Collisionless Shocks in the Supernova Remnant RCW86" (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ....) if you want to learn about shocks in RCW 86 with LVM ✨🔭

📃Check out this paper: "Unified Spectrospatial Forward Models: Spatially Continuous Maps of Weak Emission Lines in the Rosette Nebula with SDSS-V LVM" (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ....) if you want to see spectrospatial models applied to LVM data of the Rosette Nebula ✨🔭

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V LVM: Resolving physical conditions in the Trifid Nebula"(www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...) if you want to learn about resolved and integrated electron densities, temperatures and oxygen abundances in the Trifid Nebula with LVM ✨🔭

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V LVM: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars and their HeII ionizing flux in low-metallicity environments: I. The weak-lined, early-type WN3 stars in the SMC"(ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26...) if you want to learn about Wolf-Rayet stars with LVM ✨🔭

📃Check out this paper: "SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): revealing the structure of the Rosette Nebula"(ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRA...) if you want to see the Rosette Nebula with LVM ✨🔭

The SDSS-V DR19 is now online at www.sdss.org 🎉 For the first time, LVM data is released. Get a sneak peak into LVM data and download our amazing LVM tile of the Helix Nebula!✨ A tutorial showing how to access, read in, and work with the data is available here: www.sdss.org/dr19/lvm/tut... 💻

🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨ Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...

We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19

Data Release 19 - SDSS

DR19 is the second data release for the fifth phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V). Its content is described in detail on the DR19 data release paper. What's New in DR19 Data Access Scope DR...

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Discover the ✨amazing✨ possibilities of LVM in this image of IC 434 in the Orion constellation, featuring the Horsehead Nebula emerging on the left (credit: ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26...). Find more information here: sdss.org/robotic-tele...

Stay tuned!!✨

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Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19

Following this weeks SDSS-V Collaboration Meeting in Heidelberg, there will be a public talk about LVM and its science at Haus der Astronomie on Wednesday, June 4 at 7 pm. Come and join our SDSS scientists! ✨🔭 More information can be found here: www.haus-der-astronomie.de/events/41361...

Heiße Sterne, Schockwellen und riesige Blasen: Eine neue Erforschung der Milchstraße und der Magellanschen Wolken

Dieser öffentliche Vortrag begleitet die Tagung des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konsortiums, das die Himmelsdurchmusterung "Sloan Digital Sky Survey" (SDSS) organisiert. Im Mittelpunkt steht ei...

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