Digital Sky Virtual Observatory

The Digital Sky Virtual Observatory (DSVO) Project will help create a "National Virtual Observatory" (NVO) that will provide an intuitive, comprehensive way to remotely navigate immense celestial datasets.

Researchers will be able to access and interrelate geographically distributed datasets from multiple sky surveys at arbitrary resolutions. DSVO routes large data streams from diverse locations over high-speed networks like the NASA Research and Education Network (NREN), CalREN2, Abilene, and NTON; combines them on the fly; and projects them for viewing using Virtual Observatory software.

The joined image is a multi-spectral, multi-resolution view of the sky. This demonstration represents the coordinated efforts of three NASA centers and Caltech, and constitutes a significant step in developing the capabilities and partnerships needed to eventually make the NVO an operational reality.

Additional Information

http://alphabits.jpl.nasa.gov/nvo/

http://www.nren.nasa.gov