Physics

Search images published in peer-reviewed astronomy journals and obtain copyright information for reuse in slide presentations or publications.

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Interactive 3-D maps of the universe

Search preprints, articles, books, journals, and photographs from CERN, the European Organization of Nuclear Research

This telescope studies the most distant stars and galaxies

Learn more about the International Space Station from this NASA webpage

NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.

NED is a comprehensive database of multiwavelength data for extragalactic objects, providing a systematic, ongoing fusion of information integrated from hundreds of large sky surveys and tens of thousands of research publications.

Everything you need to know about JPL, including news, images, and video.

Physical Reference Data provided by the NIST

Photojournal is the public search interface for the Planetary Image Archive. It is intended to help the general public navigate the thousands of beautiful image collected by NASA exploration programs over the years.

The Planetary Data System (PDS) is a long-term archive of digital data products returned from NASA's planetary missions, and from other kinds of flight and ground-based data acquisitions, including laboratory experiments.

Skyview is a user-driven image generator that presents customized images of any portion of the sky from a variety of surveys and in seven wavelengths.

SDSS has mapped over a quarter of the sky, producing a huge number of multi-color maps and 3-D maps.

"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope." This free downloadable software includes features such as overlays of constellation art.

A collection of images and data from several major telescopes, such as Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, and others.