Astronomy
Space
- Explore the solar system with The Planetary Society,
founded by renowned scientists Carl Sagan and Bruce
Murray to promote the exploration of the planets and the
search for extraterrestrial life. Join scientists,
engineers, educators, and others as they work to
understand our world and reach for worlds beyond our own.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory takes aim at Pluto, the only
planet not yet visited by a spacecraft from Earth.
Pictures
- A list of astronomical anonymous ftp servers. A
catalog of the main astronomical resources on the
Internet relating to amateur astronomy.
- Information and images of the Hubble space telescope,
planets, eclipses, and the space shuttle.
- This site includes an archive of astronomical images.
The images include information on Nebulaes, Galaxies,
Star clusters, Supernovas, Black holes, the Aurora
phenomenon and our solar system. There are links to
similar sites of interest.
- Each day features a different image or photograph of
our fascinating universe and a brief explanation written
by a professional astronomer.
- An Observatory that provides general information and
images on various subjects like newly discovered planets,
the solar system, galactic nebulae, extragalactic
objects, as well as specialized images of galaxies and
UFOs. There is also educational materials such as
publications, web talks, movies demonstrations and text.
- This site contains information, images, animations,
and other resources regarding the collision of fragments
of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, which took
place on July 16-22.
- Declassified satellite photographs and information
collected by the U.S. intelligence community during the
1960's.
- Form allows you to retrieve GIF or FITS images from
astronomical coordinates or object name.
- You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day
and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from
the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any
location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude
and altitude, or from a satellite in Earth orbit.
- A collection of large, bright and well resolved images
of 113 nearby galaxies assembled at the Department of
Astrophysics, Princeton University.
- Various pictures of the moon in different
phases.
- A browsable, zoomable and scrollable atlas of Mars.
Thousands of high-resolution Viking Orbiter images. This
atlas has complete coverage of Mars as grayscale maps and
interesting color maps of all of Mars.
- Various images of Mars, Phobos, and Deimos.
- A collection of images organized by object and/or
phenomenon. The source of the image has been included
wherever possible.
- A index table of information which leads to various
images that includes nebulaes and other space phenomenon.
- A reference library providing planetary science
researchers with access to the extensive collection of
image data obtained from planetary missions. Over 300,000
photographs and images of the planets and their
satellites. Cartographic products generated from these
images are also available. This page is continually
updated.
- Sketches of galaxies, nebulae and clusters, as viewed
through a 6; reflector.
- SkyView is a Virtual Observatory. SkyView generates
images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all
regimes from radio to gamma-ray. This site also includes
links to other sites of similar interest.
- A variety of sources for space-related images.
- An archive of astronomical and solar system bodies,
spacecraft and rocketry, as well as every manned U.S.
space mission.
- An extensive collection of photographs taken by space
shuttle astronauts using hand-held cameras as well as
some radar imagery. The collection contains photographs
from STS-41C to the present and is continually growing
with each space shuttle mission. Spectacular
Earth-looking views as well as photographs of EVA's and
spacecraft and satellite deployments. Shuttle photographs
are available as an archive to researchers in the
scientific community.
- Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures. Access Files
and Related Information Directly.
- Images of various nebulae chosen for aesthetic more
than scientific value.
