Case study
CosmoHub is a web-based service designed to facilitate an interactive exploration, visualisation, and distribution of large astronomical datasets. Powered by a highly specialised big-data infrastructure, it supports users while providing excellent performance. CosmoHub officially collaborates with numerous European and international projects, such as Gaia, Euclid, PAUS, DES, MICE, LSST and CTAO.
Problem addressed
CosmoHub tackles the challenge of managing, accessing, and distributing massive scientific datasets by providing a centralised, intuitive, and scalable platform that supports multi-experiment data exploration and the delivery of customised data subsets. By streamlining data access, it enhances collaboration, efficiency, and reproducibility in large-scale research projects.
Added value
Providing a centralised open data repository, adhering to FAIR principles.
Interacting with and distributing massive, structured datasets through the fastest platform in the astronomy and cosmology community.
Offering an easy and intuitive interface to advanced features through custom-defined functions, such as HEALPiX, array aggregation, and spherical geometry operations.
CosmoHub plot showing the large-scale structure of the Universe, using a simulated dark matter halo catalogue containing 2.13 billion entries. CosmoHub – CC 4.0 BY-NC-ND
