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Sky Server
At the Tech.Ed 2004 speech Jim Gray, one of the speakers, who works for Microsoft's Research Division, talked us through the work he is doing on linking very large databases together across the web. One of these is Skyserver which is an attempt to bring together all of the data from Sky surverys into one interface. Amazing pictures here.
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr2/en SDSS SkyServer: "This website presents data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project to make a map of a large part of the universe. We would like to show you the beauty of the universe, and share with you our excitement as we build the largest map in the history of the world"

posted by Pete Gilbert @ 9:13 am