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Expand Up @@ -21,8 +21,10 @@ PyVO is a package providing access to remote data and services of the
Virtual observatory (VO) using Python.

Its development was launched by the NSF/NASA-funded Virtual Astronomical
Observatory (VAO, www.usvao.org) project (formerly under the name
VAOpy) as part of its initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop.
Observatory (VAO) project (formerly under the name VAOpy) as part of its
initiative to bring VO capabilities to desktop. The VAO website has since
gone offline; an archived snapshot is available at
https://web.archive.org/web/20190106160759/http://usvao.org/.
Its goal is to allow astronomers and tool developers to access data and
services from remote archives and other web resources. It takes
advantage of VO standards to give access to thousands of catalogs,
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