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Contact: Paul Preuss
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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Caption: David Schlegel, principal investigator of BOSS, shows one of the numerous "plug plates" used to map and select hundreds of galaxies for each exposure. Light from each galaxy enters a hole in the plate and is carried to the CCD camera by its own optical fiber.
Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Related news release: BOSS: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
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