

Astronomy Image Sources
As far as I know all of these webapges are sources of free astronomical
images. It is possible that some of them still have copyrights to their
images, so please be sure to check that before using them.
- Anglo-Australian
Observatory - lots of astronomy images and other astronomy info
- Astronomical Image Library -
searchable index for astronomy pictures on the web (website is down as of
July 20, 2011 with no date for when it will return)
- Astronomy
Picture of the Day - a picture and description (written by a
professional astronomer) that changes every day
- Canadian
Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) - access to many astronomical archives,
surveys, and catalogs
- Earth Observatory -
images of the Earth and events on the Earth from space
- Chandra X-ray
Observatory Images
- Digitized Sky Survey -
Find info on any object in the sky, including coordinates and pictures
- High
Energy Astrophysics Mission Images - Links to images from high
energy (X-ray, gamma ray, etc.) satellite observatories including: ROSAT,
Einstein (HEAO-2), Copernicus (OAO-3), and many others
- Hubble Site Gallery -
Hubble Space Telescope picture gallery
- Lunar and
Planetary Observation and CCD imaging - amazing pictures and
animations of the moon, sun, planets, stars...
- Lunar Photo of the Day -
photo with description of the moon, changes daily
- Moonglow
Observatory - small astronomical observatory run by Fred Bruenjes
as a hobby, contains lots of pictures
- Multiwavelength
Milky Way - images of the Milky Way in a variety of wavelengths (radio,
infrared, optical, x-ray, gamma ray, etc.)
- NASA
Multimedia Gallery - a large collection of NASA photos and videos of
astronomy, rocketry, space missions, etc...
- NASA's Planetary
Photojournal - contains over 800 publicly released images from
various Solar System exploration programs
- National Optical
Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Image Gallery
- Observational
Mishaps - image database of astronomical observations which exhibit
problems one might encounter during observing runs
- SDSS Image Gallery
- This page leads to collections of photos and other images associated with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
- SEDS Gallery - an
archive of space images, pictures, art...
- Sky View Virtual
Telescope - view images of celestial objects in a variety of different
wavelengths (visual, radio, x-ray, gamma ray, ect...)
- Space
Audio - sounds from space (very cool!)
- Stellar Scenes
- excellent amateur astrophotography out of Japan (English and Japanese
Versions)
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