Astroinformatics: A 21st Century Approach to Astronomy

This is what I do every day. When your niche becomes a university degree, it must be growing. Maybe it's time to ask for a new title. Lead Astro-info-maniac?

Also note, regardless of the degrees offered, some schools are way ahead of the curve on this: ASU, AU, Brown. Wash U. They all have long-time relationships with NASA to store/analyze data.

I also posted it couple of months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=845606

From time to time I see a software development job posts at some observatory ( Hawaii..) or Space Telescope Science Institute (on python.org/community/jobs/) Dream jobs :)