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Space Telescope Science Institute popular
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/
Contains astronomy resources, space data archives, visitor information, and research opportunities.
USGS Planetary GIS Web Server.
Mapping interface that will integrate powerful Geographic Information Systems (GIS) graphical, statistical, and spatial relational tools for analyses of planetary datasets.
The VLA FIRST Survey
Faint images of the radio sky at the wavelength of 20 centimeters.
The UnOfficial Chandra Data Archive Search
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/archive/chandra/search
Provides a search tool for the Chandra X-Ray Observatory secondary data products archive.
The Royal Astronomical Society
UK organization promoting astronomy, geophysics, and planetary science.
The New UKIRT Archive
http://archive.ast.cam.ac.uk/ukirt_arch/
The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Archive. Offers search tool, and operator's log.
The Munich Astro Archive
Archives astronomical data. Includes star dates, comets, glossary, astronomical catalogs, calendar, meteor events, and astromaps.
The ELODIE archive
http://atlas.obs-hp.fr/elodie/
Hosts more than 16000 Echelle spectra of 2000 objects from the ELODIE spectrograph at OHP observatory.
The Aladin Sky Atlas
Provides an interactive sky atlas allowing users to visualize digitized images of any part of the sky. Includes astronomical catalogs, personal user data files, and interactive access to related data from the Simbad database, and Vizier service.
Technical Data for the Arecibo Airglow and Optical Instrumentation
http://www.naic.edu/~craig/technical-data.html
Data information, and instrument documentation from the Arecibo optical facility.
Supercosmos Sky Surveys
http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/
Provides images, and catalogues of the southern sky in three colours. Includes access to digitised images, and the data derived from SuperCOSMOS scans of photographic Schmidt survey plates.
Solar Data Analysis Centre
Contains solar data, and images. Includes SDAC Data-Finder, current solar images, and TRACE analysis guides.
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html
Offers data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography for celestial objects outside the solar system including stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies.
SAO Telescope Data Center
Creates, and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, Whipple Observatory, and Multiple Mirror Telescope on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is part of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Radio Astronomy Group, University of Tasmania
http://www-ra.phys.utas.edu.au/
Contains student research projects, astronomical data, radio observatories, and history.
Planetary Data System
PDS archives, and distributes digital data from past, and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. Contains data and services, educational resources, and contact information.
Personal Web pages
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_personal.html
A list of the personal web pages of professional astronomers from around the world. Extensive.
Pat Baker's Astronomy Central
Explores astronomy, the universe, the Hubble telescope, the solar system, and astronomy history. Offers news, images, articles, and links.
NVSS Postage Stamp Server
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/nvss/postage.shtml
This postage Stamp server for NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) returns radio images of the sky in FITS or JPEG format.
NOAO Data Archives
http://www.noao.edu/archives.html
Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. Includes survey programs data archive, and links to other data collections.
Multiwavelength Milky Way
The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Microsoft Research and the SDSS SkyServer
http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/SDSS/
A project to develop an Internet data resource in astronomy. Includes journals, reading, the sky server, team information, and links.