ESASky: A science-driven discovery portal for space-based astronomy missions

In the era of “big data” and with the advent of web 2.0 technologies, ESASky (http://sky.esa.int) aims at providing a modern and visual way to access astronomical science-ready data products and metadata. The main goal of the application is to simplify the interaction between the scientific community and the ever-growing amount of data collected over the past decades from the most important astronomy missions.