AstroWeb: Pretty Pictures

A Wormhole in the Cosmos

Have you ever wondered why Black Holes are black or how Supernovae helped develop life on Earth ? A Wormhole in the Cosmos provides answers to these questions, and others. Includes a Gallery of beautiful space images, and many educative astronomy resources.

http://www.intothecosmos.com/

APM Galaxy Survey

The APM Galaxy Survey contains over 2 million galaxies with Bj < 20.5 in the South Galactic Cap. This page provides a summary of the survey and some pretty pictures.

http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~wjs/apm_survey.html

APS Catalog of POSS I (Univ. Minnesota)

The APS Catalog of the POSS I contains millions of entries for stars and galaxies, and the corresponding Image Database contains their pixels and more. The data behind the Object Catalog and Image Database are generated from digitized Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates. Object Catalog entries include calibrated magnitudes in two colors, positions to 0.2 arcseconds, confidence measures on neural network image classifications, colors, and various other useful parameters.

http://isis.spa.umn.edu/homepage.aps.html

APS Image Database

A searchable database of images scanned from the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates. This resource is tied into the APS Object Catalog, providing both pixels and calibrated positions, magnitudes, and other information.

http://isis.spa.umn.edu/IDB/homepage.idb.html

Analemma

A descriptive view of the analemma using computer animations and graphics.

http://www.analemma.com

Armagh Planetarium

An astronomical resource for educators and Planetarium workers which contains images obtained through our telescopes and a variety of other material.

http://www.armagh-planetarium.co.uk/

Astronomical Illustrations, Russell Kightley Media

Illustrations of accretion disks, classic T Tauri star, white dwarfs, magnetic phenomena.

http://www.rkm.com.au/sciencegraph.html

Astronomical Image Library

We're undertaking the task of indexing the wealth of astronomical images available on the Internet. To use the service, you just have to go to the URL mentioned and type the name of the object you are looking for. If our database knows where an image of this object is located, you just have to click on the resulting link(s) to obtain a picture of it. We're currently indexing approximately 15,000 images and more are being added regularly.

http://www.syz.com/images/

Astronomical Images from the AAO

The images available here are low resolution scanned derivatives of over 100 AAO photographs.

http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html

Astronomical pictures and animations (CRI Bordeaux)

At CRI Bordeaux, an Astronomy Server of pictures & animations. There is a mirror copy at Nice.

http://graffiti.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/astro.english.html

Astronomy - What's UP This Month (Star Charts, Constellations, ...)

The best star chart on the web!
Want to know where, when, and how to find a planet? When's the next meteor shower? Where is the comet? These pages are updated monthly or as needed. Written for the beginner to intermediate.

http://www1.tmisnet.com/~abdale/Astronomy/Astronomy.html

Astronomy Gallery

Site dedicated to Astrophotography.

http://home.sprynet.com/gowebway/cmassey

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Each day we feature a new picture of our spectacular universe. Browse through our extensive annotated archive. Intended for all educational levels.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Astroware 1 CD-ROM

Astroware 1: Astronomy Shareware & Freeware (ISBN 1-886376-03-4). This CD-ROM is the first to be released in a new series of space and astronomy related CD titles. Astroware 1 is devoted to shareware and freeware files on the topics of Astronomy, Amateur Telescope Making, CCD imaging and image processing. A wide range of text files and programs for DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix computers are included on this ISO-9660 disc.

http://www.ncc.com/cdroms/as1/index.html

Bacheca dell'Astrofilo

http://www.gsi.it/astronomia/

Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO)

This site contains daily images from our solar optical telescope at Big Bear, California. Fulldisk images for the current month. H-alpha, white light, and Ca-II K-line images are generally available for every observing day; Ca-II K-line fulldisk archive; H-alpha fulldisk archive; White light fulldisk archive; Current high-resolution region images; Programs to read FITS images on IBM PCs and Macintoshes.

http://www.bbso.njit.edu/

BinoSky - best bets for viewing the night sky through binoculars (BinoSky)

A guide to the best bets for viewing the night sky through binoculars. Images and maps on consistent scales, with consistent exposures.

http://www.lightandmatter.com/binosky/binosky.html

CCD Images of Messier Objects (Messier Objects)

High Quality CCD Images of Messier Objects gathered at a variety of observatories by the maintainer . Some amateur CCD images obtained at the Pine Mountain Observatory can be found here as well.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/messier.html

CcdBazar

This site (mostly in French) carries information about usage of CCD by amateurs for astronomical photography.

http://www.astrosurf.org/ccdbazar/

Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (CEPS / RPIF)

Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and its Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF) located at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution are pleased to announce the availability of its WWW server. The purpose of this NASA supported RPIF is to act as a reference library providing planetary science researchers with access to the extensive collection of image data from planetary missions. Currently we are in the process of placing some of the 300,000 photographs and images of the planets and their satellites in our collection online.

http://www.nasm.edu/ceps/

Chile astronomical observatories (pictures)

Through this section, you'll see a complete photographic survey along all the three big observatories that actually operates in the North of Chile. The exposition is divided in four sections, covering from stars trails to CCD frames of southern deep sky objects.

http://puppis.ls.eso.org/staff/felipe/HTML/main-images.html

Coelum, Mensile di Astronomia Scienza e Telescopi

European astronomical monthly magazine [in Italian].

http://www.coelum.com/

Comet Home Page

A page about comets.

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/comet.html

Comet Observation Home Page

Provides information on current (bright) comets including recent observations and ephemeridies. Images and light curves of current and past comets are also available.

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (ESO)

http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/sl9/

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (NASA-GSFC)

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (NASA-JPL)

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter (SEDS-LPL, Ariz.)

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/sl9/sl9.html

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Encounters Jupiter - Latest HST Images (STScI)

http://www.stsci.edu/EPA/Comet.html

Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE, Argentina)

Information on the Centro Regional de Datos Satelitales (CREDAS) and on Argentina's National Space Plan

http://www.conae.gov.ar/caratula.html

Constellation Photos

Northern Hemisphere Constellation Photos and photos of Hale-Bopp Comet. All photos taken with 400 asa film and a 50mm lens.

http://www.slivoski.com/astronomy

Cosmic Images

Recent lunar, planetary, and deep space images taken at Kohl Observatory in Lakewood, NY, U.S.A., using a DFM 20" computer controlled Cassegrain telescope.

http://www.netsync.net/users/ronccd

Degenhardt Amateur User Facility

The Degenhardt Amateur User Facility (DAUF) is located in Murfreesboro, TN. It is a joint effort from local amateurs to provide a location for any amateur (or professional) to observe either for research or for fun anytime. The page is constantly updated with images and results of its activities. It also provides links with other web sites of interest.

http://nashville.com/~dega/daufhome.html

Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy Pictures (DAHAP)

A collection of images from the history of astronomy, for use in research and teaching.

http://www.kunskapsbolaget.com/DAHAP

Digital Images of the Sky, Bonn

A collection of astronomical images taken with the instruments of the Astronomical Institutes of the University of Bonn (AIUB) by Till Credner and Sven Kohle et al.

http://aibn47.astro.uni-bonn.de/~gallery/

Earth Observation Science group, Leicester University (EOS group)

Find out about the varied research projects and teaching activities of the EOS group at Leicester University. See the satellite image gallery, learn about the ATSR space-bourne instruments and read about the successful MSc course in Earth Observation Science.

http://www.le.ac.uk/physics/research/eos/

FITSview FITS image viewers (FITSview)

The FITSview family of viewers for FITS format astronomical images are available for Microsoft Windows (FITSview), Apple Macintosh (MacFITSview) and Unix/X-Windows (XFITSview) computer systems. These viewers have easy to use graphical controls and will display astronomical images in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format allowing zooming, scrolling, modifying the brightness, contrast and pseudo color and allow determination of celestial positions and the physical brightness units in the image. Both standard World Coordinate System (WCS) and Digitized Sky Survey

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bcotton/fitsview.html

Franz Niklaus König: Celestial atlas (1826)

http://www.stub.unibe.ch/stub/koenig/celestial.html

Grove Creek Observatory, Australia (GCO)

Grove Creek Observatory in NSW Australia, specializes in CCD imaging and research. Accomodation available for visiting amateur astronomers.

http://gco.apana.org.au/

HX5 CCD Astronomy Web site

HX5 CCD Astronomy images from Martin YATES.

http://www.larks2.freeserve.co.uk/ccd.htm

High Energy Astrophysics Missions (HEASARC. GSFC. NASA)

Comprehensive list of satellites with high energy astrophysics instrumentation. Includes images from these missions.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions.html

High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE)

The High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment is one of 3 common-user instruments on board the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) which was launched on 1995 December 30. The HEXTE is sensitive to X-rays from 15 to 250 keV and is able to time-tag photons in this energy range to 8 microseconds.

http://mamacass.ucsd.edu:8080/hexte/hexte.html

Hubble Heritage Project

A striking astronomical image, created by the Hubble Heritage team, is released at this site the first Thursday of every month. As well as creating color images from the exposures in the Hubble Telescope Data Archive, this project has voting events for choosing observing targets at this website.

http://heritage.stsci.edu/

Hubble Heritage Project Index

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a research tool dedicated to scientific studies of nature. By emphasizing compelling HST images distilled from scientific data, we hope to pique curiosity about our astrophysical understanding of the universe we all inhabit.

http://heritage.stsci.edu/public/commonpages/subjectindex.html

Hubble Space Telescope

The best images from the Hubble space telescope.

http://www.seds.org/hst/

Hubble Space Telescope - pictures

Publicly released images from post-servicing observations by Hubble Space Telescope. The images in this directory are in GIF format which supports up to 256 colors (8-bits). They include 30 Doradus, 47 Tucanae, Comet 1993e, Eta Carinae, Mars, M31, M87, M100, NGC1068, NGC2440, NGC6624, NGC7252, Nova Cygni, Orion (incl. animation), QSO1220+204, the Saturn storm, SL-9, SN1987A (with rings), and SN1994I. The images have originally been made available by the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/hubblepics/

Hubble Space Telescope Press Release: Images (HST, at ST-ECF)

http://ecf.hq.eso.org/stecf-pubinf.html

Hubble Space Telescope picture gallery

a mousable sequence of press release photographs taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/OpenDay/HST/

Hubble Space Telescope public images and other information

images, movies and animations from some of the observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). They are made available by the Office of Public Outreach of the Space Telescope Science Institute. See also: TIFFs & GIFs ( Levay), ExInEd (Macs-only)

http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Pictures.html

INFRARED ASTRONOMY - IPAC's Educational Outreach

All about infrared astronomy: Discover of infrared, What is infrared, history, the infrared universe, gallery, activities, discoveries, missions, catalogs from NASA's infrared astronomy center (IPAC).

http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/

IPAC Image Gallery

This gallery provides images from projects that have been and currently are being supported by IPAC: IRAS, ISO, 2MASS, WIRE, MSX.

http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Gallery/gallery.html

Image Processing CD-ROM

The IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS CD-ROM contains a huge selection of files related to the topics of image processing, file formats and documentation, format conversions, specialized image processing applications, and source code for algorithms, converters, and complete image processing systems. The disk also includes a large amount of FITS information, CCD imaging software, and specialized astronomical image processing software.

http://www.ncc.com/cdroms/ipt/index.html

INACTIVE LINK ? - 19 --- Information Service Astronomy and Space Flight (German language) (Astronomical News)

The service delivers reports in German languange based on press releases. The main content are the releases from the Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble) and from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

http://www.data-universe.com/infserv/astronews.html

Infrared Space Observatory Science Gallery (ISOSG)

This gallery is devoted to scientific results from ISO. Each main class of ISO Astronomy target (Solar System Object, Normal galaxies etc.) has it's own sub-gallery complete with links to full size versions of the thumbnail and background material on the observed object.

http://www.iso.vilspa.esa.es/science/

International Space Physics Educational Consortium (ISPEC)

ISPEC is an online educational resource for any space related topics. The Virtual Learning Center easily hosts over one hundred links to online material. ISPEC mainly focuses on space physics, although there are a variety of space related (and some non space) sub-pages,

http://ispec.scibernet.com/

Isaac Newton Group - La Palma (ING)

The Issac Newton Group consists of three telescopes, the 4.2 metre William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5 metre Isaac Newton Telescope, and the 1 metre Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. They are situated at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, and are operated by the Royal Observatories of the UK. This resource contains documentation for many of the major instruments, details of how to apply for time, brief descriptions of the telescopes, details and status of the service programme, current telescope schedules, weather information for La Palma, and pointers to other institutions which share the site.
The site is mirrored at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ING/ for faster access to UK users.

http://www.ing.iac.es/

JPL planetary images

WAIS index to captions and planetary GIF images from Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) Public Information Office.

wais://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/pio

Jeff MacQuarrie's Astronomy Homepage

CCD images taken with a 16" Newtonian and "Cookbook" CB245 camera. Images include nebulae, galaxies and star clusters. Each image is accompanied by a description of the object, how the image was taken, and links to further information and images.

http://members.aol.com/tchphysics/index.htm

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Image/Information Archives (JPL)

This is a public access computer site containing information on and images from missions conducted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; it is operated by the JPL Public Information Office. Contents of the site include:
-- JPL news releases, status reports, fact sheets and other data on JPL missions.
-- Images from JPL missions as GIF computer files. These may be displayed on various makes of computers; viewing software may also be downloaded.
-- Back issues of JPL's in-house newspaper, Universe.
In addition, teacher materials provided by the JPL Public Education Office are planned to be added shortly.
Subdirectories are named archive, educator, images, missions, news, sircxsar, software, universe and file whats.new.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/

Las Brisas Observatory (LBO)

Astrophotographs from The Las Brisas Observatory.

http://LBO.teuton.org/

Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (Barely Visible Galaxies)

Example CCD Images of Low Surface Brightness galaxies obtained from a long term survey for these objects. Recent Papers on these objects can also be found at this site.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/sb2.html

MSSS Viking Image Archive

Provides access to a large fraction of the set of images taken by the Viking orbiters from 1976 to 1980

http://barsoom.msss.com/http/vikingdb.html

Magellan Image Browser

http://delcano.mit.edu/cgi-bin/midr-query

Magellan Mission to Venus - Online Resources (PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA)

A list of high-quality web-based resources related to the Magellan mission to Venus. Includes direct links to the PDS-archived data stored in CD-ROM jukeboxes, and a browser to view the data.

http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/public/magellan/magellan.html

Mars Atlas (-- online USGS maps and VO image finder)

A WWW-browsable, zoomable and scrollable atlas of USGS images of Mars, showing the locations (footprints) of thousands of high-resolution Viking Orbiter images.

http://ic-www.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/Mars/

Mediterranean Association of Environmental and Space Sciences (AMSEE)

The "Association Mediterranenne des Sciences de l'Environnement et de l'Espace" or Mediterranean Association of Environmental and Space Sciences is a non profit organisation established late 1990. Since then the Association has installed two telescopes, one designed for the observation of planets and double stars under the Mosser Dome and another for deep sky observing under the Messier Dome. CCDs observing for amateur size telescope has been the major interest of the members since the beginning.

http://cic.cstb.fr/amsee/

Messier Pages at SEDS

Images and short information for each of the 110 Deep Sky Objects of Messier's catalog, together with various indices and reference material. Including historic and observational stuff, and a big image collection.

http://www.seds.org/messier/

Mike's Astronomy and Rocketry Site (CCD Images)

Astronomical CCD Images, Amateur Rocketry, Astronomy and Rocketry Links.

http://home.att.net/~mfborman

Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies

A Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies is presented as an educational tool for high school students. Optical, X-ray, Far-Infrared and Radio images are shown for a variety of nearby galaxies. Text describing the physical mechanisms of the different types of radiation, and their astronomical sources is supplied.

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~mackie/atlas/atlas_edu.html

Multiwavelength Milky Way

Images of the Milky Way galaxy in the light of several spectral lines and continuum bands, spanning the electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high-energy gamma-ray, are presented. The display is interactive, allowing zooming and panning of the images, each of which covers the entire sky within ten degrees of the Galactic plane. Explanatory text and links to the data sources and references are included. The Multiwavelength Milky Way site is an educational service of the Astrophysics Data Facility at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/mw/milkyway.html

NASA JSC Digital Image Collection

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/

NASA Shuttle flights - pictures

Pretty pictures from many NASA Shuttle flights, including STS-61 in December 1993 to service the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The images in this directory are mirrored from the site at: ftp://sseop.jsc.nasa.gov/

ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/images/shuttle

NASA astronomy images

gopher://toybox.gsfc.nasa.gov/1ftp-vms%3ansinic.gsfc.nasa.gov%40/images/gif/astronomy

NASA's Planetary Photojournal

The Planetary Photojournal is designed to provide easy access to the press released images from various Solar System exploration programs. These are highly processed images, suitable for general viewing or publishing. Each image is shown with its original caption published at the time the image was first released. Images may be downloaded at full resolution in a variety of formats. Links to hard copy vendors are also provided.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA/MSU Center for Educational Resources (CERES)

An extensive library of interactive K-12 materials for teaching astronomy including classroom-ready lesson plans, NASA data search engines and distance learning courses for in-service K-12 teachers.

http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/

NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library (NCSA ADIL)

The purpose of the NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library is to collect fully processed astronomical images in FITS format format and make them available to the research community and the general public via the World Wide Web. The collection will contain images from research observatories all over the world and taken at all wavebands.

http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib.html

NSSDC Photo Gallery

The images presented in the Photo Gallery have a number of different sources, primarily NASA missions, however. They are generally organized by object and/or phenomenon on separate pages. The source of the image as well as the processing involved in producing the image have been included whereever possible. Photo captions for some images are also available.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery.html

National Undergraduate Research Observatory (NURO)

The National Undergraduate Research Observatory (NURO) at Lowell Observatory and Northern Arizona University is a 0.8m telescope located on Anderson Mesa south of Flagstaff, Arizona. NURO is a consortium of Universities and small colleges to provide a research grade telescope for undergraduate research and education.

http://www.nuro.nau.edu/

Nine Planets (a tour of the solar system)

A descriptive page about each major object in the solar system.

http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/

Nordic Optical Telescope - Staff members (NOTSTAFF)

Personnel at the NOT, info and pictures.

http://www.not.iac.es/newwww/html/staff.html

Out of This World star atlas exhibition

An exhibition of rare star maps and atlases from the History of Science Collection of the Linda Hall Library

http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome.htm

PDS Imaging Node's Planetary Image Atlas (PDSIMG Atlas)

The Atlas is designed to be a single interface through which you can search for, display, and download full resolution data for all planetary missions. It will eventually replace individual existing browsers. Until that time, links to the individual browsers are provided from this central location. Current missions included in the Atlas are: Magellan, Clementine, Viking, Mars Pathfinder, and Galileo.

http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/public/Atlas/Atlas.html

Planetary Data System Imaging Node (PDSIMG)

The Imaging Node of the Planetary Data System is the curator of NASA's primary digital image collections from past, present, and future planetary missions. The node provides to the NASA planetary science community the digital image archives, necessary ancillary datasets, software tools, and technical expertise necessary to fully utilize the vast collection of digital planetary imagery.

http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/

Radio Galaxy and Quasar Images

Images of extragalactic radio sources, mainly from the VLA

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~abridle/images.htm

Remote Access Astronomy Project (RAAP)

The Remote Access Astronomy Project. The RAAP is an educational outreach program that promotes interest in science through providing astronomy educational resources. These include a series of digital image processing exercises to teach a variety of physical concepts as well as access to our computer controlled telescope allowing motivated students design and carry out their own experiments.

http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/rot.htm

SL9: IMPACT '94 CD-ROM

The SL9: IMPACT '94 CD-ROM contains a huge selection of images and other files related to the impact of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. The SL9 CD-ROM contains hundreds of images, motion video sequences, and technical information related to the July 1994 collision of the Periodic Comet Shoemaker-levy 9 (1993e) and the planet Jupiter. ISO-9660 disc.

http://www.ncc.com/cdroms/sl9/index.html

Societe Astronomique de Liege (SAL)

This site of the Astronomical Society of Liege (Belgium) is completely in French.
La Société Astronomique de Liège vous propose: prochaines activités; actualité astronomique; images d'amateurs; liens astronomiques; informations sur la SAL, etc...

http://www.astro.ulg.ac.be/~sal/

Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC)

The SDAC at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center serves current solar ground- and spaced-based imagery, text, figures, maps, and tables of NASA eclipse bulletins, solar flare data from the Compton GRO BATSE experiment and the Yohkoh spacecraft, and science operations planning information for the SOHO Science Working Team.... and more to come.

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html

Solar UV Atlas from HRTS (HRTS data)

Through the generosity of Dr. Pĺl Brekke of the University of Oslo, the High Resolution Spectrograph and Telescope (HRTS) ultraviolet solar atlas is now available on the Web. Click here for more information.

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/uv_atlas/atlas.html

Solar, Auroral, Ionospheric, ... Information (Univ. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)

Solar Imagery (mirrored from SELSIS/BBSO)-updated once every three hours; Daily Reports of Ionospheric Data containing M(3000), foF2, MUF(3000), and TEC; East-West Solar Interferometer Scan Images from the Algonquin Radio Observatory 32-Element Interferometer; Weekly Solar Terrestrial Forecast and Review Reports; Daily GOES-6 and 7 X-ray Plots as well as special high-resolution xray plots of major flares; Daily NSO solar coronal line emission plots; Daily Pseudo-Full-Disk solar coronal maps of the coronal Fe XIV and Ca XV ion lines from the NSO; and more... - README

ftp://ftp.uleth.ca/pub/solar/

Space Movie Archive

A very large collection of space animations (more than 2000 video sequences). Here's the summary : Solar eclipses | Meteorology | Science-Fiction | Star Trek | Shoemaker-Levy | Solar system bodies | Satellites, rockets and space probes | Space | STS-71 Mir-Atlantis encounter | Astro 2 Endeavor mission | Apollo missions, etc.

http://graffiti.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/anim-e.html

Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Image Gallery

Gallery of three-color near-IR JHK_s composite Atlas Images of interesting and beautiful objects from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).

http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/

UMASS Astronomy Image Library

A library of optical, near infrared, IRAS, and mm radio images of astronomical objects of special interest to the UMass Astronomy group. This library includes the hyperlinked tour of the Lynds 1641 molecular cloud in Orion, and a library of images of molecular line maps of star formation regions studied at FCRAO.

http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/images.shtml

USGS Flagstaff Space Mission Support

Browse the Solar System - Information about the Solar System and products created by the USGS. Current Activities, NASA Missions - Some of the NASA missions and other projects on which our scientists are currently working. Databases - Space mission databases maintained by USGS Flagstaff Field Center.

http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/space.html

University of Oregon - CCD Images of Galaxies

This is a Gallery showing several types of galaxies that inhabit the Universe.

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/galaxy.html

VRML 3D Interactive Map of Regional Galaxies (Galaxies in VRML)

This page is a representation of the nearest 150 or so galaxies for which both a visible distance estimate exists along with their red-shift values. They are represented as spheres in their appropriate positions and are color-coded to display their red-shift values. Names appear as you approach them. As you rotate this world you can clearly see a clustering/streaming affect and also a flattened fan-out starting at an area in the vicinity of The Milky Way. The VRML text was generated by a C++ program which parsed the CFA Redshift Catalogue, Version June 1995 (Huchra+1995).

http://sycamore.inr.net/galaxies.html

Venus Revealed Images (Images of Venus and Venus exploration craft)

A choice selection of images of Venus and Venus exploration craft from the book Venus Revealed by David Grinspoon

http://sunra.colorado.edu/david/images.html

Views Of The Solar System

Views Of The Solar System has been created as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system. The image processing for many of the images was done by Calvin J. Hamilton.

http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/homepage.htm

Viking Mission to Mars - Online Resources (PDS Imaging Node. JPL. NASA)

A list of high quality, web-based resources related to the Viking mission to Mars. Includes direct links to the PDS-archived data stored on CD-ROM, as well as to browsers to view and search the data.

http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/public/vikingo/vikingo.html

Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars

This page contains MPEG movies and GIFs highlighting the visual distortion effects an observer would see in the high gravity environment of a neutron star or black hole (Schwarzschild metric). It is based on a refereed paper by Robert J. Nemiroff that appeared in the American Journal of Physics and is intended for educational use. The hypertext reviews several relevant aspects of gravitational lensing.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html

WFS Picture of the Week

The Picture of the Week every week at the site of the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory, Berlin, Germany. The page includes a description and a quiz [in German].

http://www.wfs.be.schule.de/PotW/Aktuell/PotW.html

Web Nebulae

The emphasis here is on aesthetics, not science. While there is a little information to help you appreciate the images this is not a tutorial on the astronomy of nebulae. If these images inspire you to study stellar evolution that's great, but my intent is primarily to showcase a part of Nature's beauty that is accessable to us only via the telescope.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/

Welcome to the Planets

This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

astro!nfo (Information Service)

astro!nfo is a Information Service made by amateur astronomers. There will published many informations about the amateur scene. Most of the text is written in German language.

http://www.astroinfo.ch/

pgperl

pgperl is a version of the Perl 4.0 language which has been combined with the PGPLOT FORTRAN library, a very popular package for plotting astronomical data. (As a glance through any issue of ApJ or MNRAS will confirm.) The details of this involve some complicated C glue routines but are transparent to the user. perl is a real C-like language with full control structures, and is very fast and efficient. All the power of perl (and believe me that is a lot) is available to extract data to plot from multitudes of files in complicated free formats.

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/local/www/kgb/pgperl/