The Southern Sky Survey

The Southern Sky Survey will digitally map the southern sky and provide detailed physical parameters of more than a billion objects. This data will enable us to answer five fundamental questions about the Universe we live in. What does our Solar System look like beyond Neptune? How do stars emerge from clusters and evolve into the solar systems we see today? What were the properties of the first stars to form in the Milky Way? What is the shape and extent of our Galaxy s Dark Matter Halo? When and how did the first stars and black holes light up the Universe?