Mining the digital skies.(role of virtual observatories in future of astronomy) From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 3, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2000 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Astronomers of the future will use large databases as "virtual" telescopes that are capable of seeing things that real telescopes cannot

ON THE face of it, telescopes and databases sound like very different things. Telescopes sit on the tops of mountains, and are pointed at the skies; databases sit on computer hard disks, humming away and going nowhere. Yet they have something in common: both allow astronomers to explore the universe.

Modern telescopes are hi...

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