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HTTP:: European Initiative to Vitalize Astronomical Research
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Over the past few decades, the number of astronomical observatories around the world has increased considerably, and a wealth of new data has come to scientists' attention. But, at this point, a researcher looking to combine, for example, information obtained by NASA with data from ESA or the European Southern Observatory (ESO) cannot really do this. A new European initiative plans to make space research easy, and to facilitate new astronomical discoveries, by providing a large infrastructure for the world's virtual observatories, ScienceDaily reports. “It is a question of equality, too. Ultimately, all scientists will have equal access to all possible data on any astronomical object,” Euro-VO DCA project coordinator Francoise Genova says. Virtual observatories (VO) have been touted as a potent scientific tool over the past few years, but one of their main flaws is that they usually combine data from only one space agency, such as, for example, NASA. Every bit of per!
tinent data recorded by its ground- or space-based telescopes is centralized into an all-sky map of the Universe, with objects of interest highlighted to draw attention. But, regardless of how complete such a map is, it may still not contain all available data of a single object, so the Euro-VO DCA project plans to elimi...
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