The National Virtual Observatory
National
- distributed in scope across institutions and agencies
- available to all astronomers and the public
Virtual
- not tied to a single ìbrick-and-mortarî location
- supports astronomical ìobservationsî and discoveries via remote access to digital representations of the sky
Observatory
- general purpose
- access to large areas of the sky at multiple wavelengths
- supports a wide range of astronomical explorations
- enables discovery via new computational tools