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AI Research 54% 1 min readJul 1, 2026, 1:07 AM

80TB+ of astronomy for the HDD-poor: crossmatch the Universe from your laptop [R]

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Astronomy data from over 30 surveys is now accessible in one place, requiring only 4GB of RAM. The dataset is over 80TB and can be crossmatched from a laptop.

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Today is the day you (🫡!) get access to 80TB plus of data from over 30 astronomical surveys in one place. 4GB of RAM is enough even at Gaia Scale. Check out our writeup here:

https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-science/multimodal-universe-hats

And a tutorial here https://asciinema.org/a/1259218

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