NVO - Facilitating Scientific Discovery

NVO's objective is to enable new science by greatly enhancing access to data and computing resources. NVO makes it easy to locate, retrieve, and analyze data from archives and catalogs worldwide.

• Find data from source catalogs, observation logs, and image archives.
• Explore and compare data from archives and data center around the world.
• Query databases and cross-correlate object lists from some of the largest on-line catalogs in astronomy.
• Explore and analyze spectra from the Sloan, 2dF, and other spectral surveys.
• Detect objects in your own images and match them with objects in the major survey catalogs.

For help in getting started, read this overview of these applications or skim these one page application descriptions.

NVO - Education and Public Outreach

Astronomical images are treasured by the public for their beauty, and thus are an excellent vehicle for science education at all levels. We seek partnerships with educational organizations, museums, and planetariums to help them use our tools to incorporate NVO-ready data into their programs and curricula. See www.virtualobservatory.org for more information.

The NVO web site is a community-maintained collection with content control by the NVO Executive Committee.  Content is judged by the extent to which it: (a) reflects an aspect of the Virtual Observatory, such as astronomy with federated data, (b) uses VO standards or software, or (c) exemplifies grid-based astronomical computing.  If you would like a description of your project, data, or software included here, please write to web at us-vo.org with a short description of your work.