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Astronomy Data in the Cloud

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Astronomy generates a huge amount of data, so researchers are embracing storing it in the cloud,reports Nature. 

Astronomers typically work by asking observatories for time on a telescope and downloading the resulting data. But as the amount of data that telescopes produce grows, well, astronomically, old methods can’t keep pace.

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