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Fornax Now in Public Beta

NASA's Fornax is a cloud-based platform for analyzing data from its three primary astrophysics archives: HEASARC, MAST, and IRSA. Data from these archives are already available on the cloud, but Fornax is specifically designed for cross-archive research. If you've already used the MAST-provided TIKE or RRN, you'll be familiar with the Jupyter-based interface.

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a still frame from the fornax introductory video. a stylized white cloud is on a blue background. within the cloud, data from HEASARC, MAST, and IRSA are all connected to a central computer lableed "fornax compute
A screenshot from the Fornax introduction video, showing the data from the three primary NASA archives coexisting in the cloud. Working in the cloud is a good way to avoid slow transfers of large data volumes; Fornax is a good way to do this across all of NASA astrophysics.

 

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