The next really big observatory won’t sit on a mountaintop or out in the desert. Nor will it fly aboard a spacecraft.
Panoramic view of the sky as seen by the Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. A proposed National Virtual Observatory would integrate this and a multitude of images and spectra from other surveys into one huge database, enabling astronomers–and the public–to explore the universe from their own computers.
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