NASA’s Fornax Initiative is now accepting beta users on our Science Console, a JupyterLab environment in the cloud for computing next to NASA astrophysics archival data. Cloud data in the HEASARC, IRSA, and MAST archives can be used directly in the Fornax Science Console, including Euclid, SPHEREx, JWST, Fermi, and others. Users can also import their own datasets within some size restrictions.

The Fornax Science Console can be accessed with a Web browser and contains pre-installed data analysis software plus Jupyter tutorial notebooks for common analysis tasks. Beta users get an account with cloud resource “credits” that can be used for compute, storage, etc. There is no charge to users.

In this beta phase, we are looking for you to inform us about what resources and features the community needs, so if you require anything, please do not hesitate to ask the helpdesk. We can add credits if you have a scientific use case that requires more than our initial estimate, for example. If there is something you need and cannot see how to do, again, please ask. We may know a solution, and if we do not, your input can be added to the list of improvements under development.

For further information see:

Fornax Quick Start Guide - to get an account and get started

Fornax User Documentation - detailed info about Fornax and the Fornax Science Console

Fornax JupyterHub Notebooks - notebooks that run in the Science Console or standalone

Fornax Community Forum - ask questions, connect with other users, find support