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https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/
Imagine a world without resources like ADS, NED, Horizons etc.
I also hear that the NIST Atomic Spectra Database is scheduled to go darkRobin
European institutions including British will need to step up to fill some of these gaps. We’ve relied on the Americans too much to provide important parts of our infrastructure, in science as in other areas.
European institutions including British will need to step up to fill some of these gaps.
There are other important resources like this in Europe like CDS (SIMBAD etc) for example, and others which form a global “astro-ecosystem”. This is less to do with money and more to do with politics and cultural shifts in the US though of course.
<p class=”wp-dark-mode-bg-image”>Is there anything like JPL Horizons anywhere else?
Some of us have been discussing the provision of globally distrubuted backups on https://bsky.app/ where you may like to subscribe to #astronomy.
It’s not actually that difficult to store relatively static data like the abstract service. With my resources alone I could contribute a terabyte of storage and half a gigabit per second bandwidth. Dynamic data such as provided by the JPL and MPC sites are harder because of the need to install the requisite software.
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