Popular Science Magazine picks SDSS as one of the world’s ten “most amazing” databases:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-10/amazing-databases-sloan-digital-sky-survey-database

and shows how much our view of the Universe has changed in the last 60 years due to the data from SDSS and other large-scale astronomical surveys:

http://www.popsci.com/content/visible-universe-then-and-now