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Since its inception in the early 2000, the Virtual Observatory (VO), developed as a collaboration of many national and international projects, has become a major factor in the discovery and ...

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Artificial intelligence is transforming astronomy by automating celestial object classification, detecting exoplanets with high precision, and analyzing historical sky records to date supernovae.