Over the past decade, astronomers have been using an increasingly larger number of web-based applications and archives to conduct their research. However, despite the early success in creating links across projects and data centers, the promise of a single integrated digital library environment supporting e-science in astronomy has proven elusive. While some of the issues hampering progress in ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—Professional astronomers have long fled the British Isles in search of darker and clearer skies. But light pollution is now ruining things for stargazers who stayed at home, concludes a report issued this week by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. It warns that the growing glow will soon blind a thriving corps of amateur astronomers and urges the government t...

Large archives of astronomical data (images, spectra and catalogues of derived parameters) are being assembled worldwide as part of the Virtual Observatory project. In order for such massive heterogeneous data collections to be of use to astronomers, development of Computational Intelligence techniques that would combine modern machine learning with deep domain knowledge is crucial. Both fields...