Google has struck a partnership with scientists building a huge sky-scanning telescope, with hopes of helping the public access digital footage of asteroids, supernovas and distant galaxies.
Astronomers have demonstrated the use of internet technologies and the principle of interferometry to create a giant "virtual telescope" that has a resolution 5 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope.
An international group of scientists from has been working on an ambitious project whose goal is to simulate on a supercomputer the evolution of the entire universe, from just after the Big Bang until the present.
Astronomers, swamped by a tsunami of data from advances in computing and digital imaging, are developing a new, computational branch of astronomy based on simulations and data exploration. Because its primary tools are computers rather than giant, multimillion telescopes, this new form of astronomy has the potential to democratize science.
Astronomers, schoolchildren and interested amateurs could soon be watching the sky with the help of a network of telescopes controlled via the internet.
Astronomers could be among the first to reap the rewards of plans to turn the internet into a vast pool of computer processing power. The three-year Astrogrid project is attempting to give astronomers a common way of accessing and manipulating diverse data archives.
Astronomy's next great discovery may be found not by telescope, but instead with little more than a laptop computer, an Internet connection and a learned and persistent amateur. In fact, astronomers are already pulling new findings from old data, the start of what some say is a looming change in how science gets done.
Astronomers from 17 research institutions have announced that they're starting an ambitious new project to put the universe online. The National Virtual Observatory (NVO) will unite astronomical databases of many earthbound and orbital observatories, taking advantage of the latest computer technology and data storage and analysis techniques. The goal is to maximize the potential for new scientific insights from the data by making them available in an accessible, seamlessly unified form to professional researchers, amateur astronomers, and students.
A detailed description of the goals of the National Virtual Observatory project which will unite astronomical databases of many earthbound and orbital observatories, taking advantage of the latest computer technology and data storage and analysis techniques.
Increasing computing power and advances in the development of algorithms, or computer codes representing subtle physics, have deepened scientists' understanding of the cosmic web and revealed its links to recent observational discoveries in the cosmos.