john_ee - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Forgive me, but... `news'?? (Score 1) 90

by john_ee on Tuesday March 12, 2002 @02:13PM (#3150584) Attached to: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

To me, the big news is that the NVO (National Virtual Observatory) got funded - $10 million from NSF's ITR program. Their proposal is here. In a nutshell, the point of the NVO is to federate as many sky surveys as they can under one interface, and in one pixel space.

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