By Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College)

Version 3.1 (February 2010)

 

Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html

 

Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/browse/images/

National Optical Astronomy Observatories Image Gallery: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/

 

Planetary Photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

 

European Southern Observatory Photo Gallery: http://www.eso.org/public/archiveindex.html

 

Anglo-Australian Observatory Images: http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html

 

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes Image Gallery: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/images_index.html

       Includes beautiful images from the Herschel, Newton, and Kapteyn telescopes on La Palma. Each of the collections is nicely organized.

 

 

Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Images: http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/images.html

       Some remarkable color images from a major telescope on top of the Mauna Kea peak in Hawaii.

Chandra X-ray Observatory Images: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/category.html

       Growing collection of images that show the universe as seen through “x-ray eyes”.

Gemini Observatory Images: http://www.gemini.edu/index.php?option=com_gallery

       Beautiful new images from a pair of large telescopes, one in the northern, the other in the southern hemisphere.

 

Multiwavelength Astronomy Gallery: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/multiwavelength_astronomy/multiwavelength_museum/gallery.html

       An interesting album from Caltech/JPL, which shows the same astronomical objects in several different bands of the spectrum: visible light, infrared, x-rays, etc.

NASA Human Spaceflight Image Gallery: http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

       Here is where to find the great astronaut images from the different missions.

 

NASA Images: http://www.nasaimages.org/index.html

       This site is a partnership between NASA and an internet organization, and presents a wide range of NASA images (not just astronomical ones). The organization is not as good as the ones in our top category, but you can search for images and many historical pictures are included. (See also the Great Images at NASA site: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ )

National Radio Astronomy Observatory Image Gallery: http://images.nrao.edu/

       Organized by topic, the images show objects and processes that give off radio waves.

 

Palomar Observatory Images: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomarnew/astrophotos.html

       For many years, the 200-inch telescope atop Mt. Palomar was the largest in the world. Here are some of the historic photos from this and related observatories.

Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei: http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/agn/

       Astronomer William Keel at the University of Alabama has assembled a gallery of images and captions showing the wide range of activity in galaxies revealed by modern telescopes.

 

SOHO Satellite Images of the Sun:  http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

       Beautiful images of the Sun from space. Click on Gallery among the choices. See also the TRACE satellite images at: http://trace.lmsal.com/POD/TRACEpodarchive.html

       http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/index.shtml

       Images from the observatory in space, showing what the universe looks like in “heat-rays,” rather than visible light.

 

Subaru Telescope Images: http://www.naoj.org/Gallery/pressrelease.html

       Images from the large Japanese telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

 

 

Astronaut Photography of the Earth: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

Evolution of our Solar System Timeline and Gallery from the Lunar and Planetary Institute: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/

GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) Ultraviolet Satellite: http://www.galex.caltech.edu/media/images.html

Mars Express: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html [we list this European planetary mission, because its images are not included in the Planetary Photojournal site mentioned in section 1. U.S. planetary missions have their images included and organized there]

Messier Catalog with Images: http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/messier.html

Moon Mission Images from the National Space Science Data Center: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/group_page/EM.html

Our Infrared World Gallery (infrared images from many telescopes): http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/missions_gallery.html

Sloan DigitalSky Survey Images: http://www.sdss.org/gallery/

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) Infrared Gallery: http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/

X-ray Images from European Satellites: http://www.mpe.mpg.de/xray/research/gallery.php?lang=en

 

 

The World at Night (remarkable images by professional photographers who are amateur astronomers and set out to capture the world’s landmarks set against the dark night sky): http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/index.asp

Davide De Martin’s Sky Factory: http://www.skyfactory.org/index.htm

Akira Fuji Image Gallery: http://www.davidmalin.com/fujii/fujii_index.html

Robert Gendler’s The Universe in Color: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/

Tony & Daphne Hallas (AstroPhoto): http://www.astrophoto.com/images.htm

Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light): http://www.astropix.com/

Jack Newton’s Image Gallery: http://www.jacknewton.com/image_gallery.htm

Alex Mellinger Astrophotography: http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/astrophot.html

Andreas Rorig Astronomy Pages: http://www.andreasroerig.de/index_e.htm

Star Shadows Remote Observatory (a group of amateurs): http://www.starshadows.com/gallery/

 

 

Deep Sky Image Sites (Hartmut Frommert): http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/deep-l.html

Pretty Pictures page on AstroWeb: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_pictures.html

Sky & Telescope Magazine: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/internet/3304976.html?page=1&c=y