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The ever growing use of high precision experimental instruments in astronomical projects amounts to an avalanche of data to be stored, curated and analysed. Ingestion of gigabytes and even terabytes of data on a daily basis is taking place in many projects, while planned experimental devices are expected to scale ingestion up to petabytes soon. Efficient data management as part of a data exploration infrastructure has become a discriminative factor for scientific progress. SkyWatch taps into infrastructures around the world to create the first Universal API for astronomical data. SkyWatch will give astronomical data the accessibility it deserves but has never received. This opens up great new possibilities to researchers, government agencies, and the average web consumer. In just under six months SkyWatch has gone on to the win the 2014 NASA International Space Apps Challenge and currently resides in the Google for Entrepreneurs program in Waterloo, Canada.