Asrtonomical Images

A true favorite amoung the T.A.s! Each day, this site features a different image of an astronomical object, accompanied by a descriptive explanation written by a professional astronomer. Captions have links to further information on topics related to the image. You can learn much by visiting this site everyday!

The Space Telescope Science Institute's public picture archives include the latest release, past releases sorted by year and by subject, animations from the visualization lab, images from Shoemaker-Levy's impact on Jupiter, the first servicing mission, and a "Greatest Hits" picture gallery.

The Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center has a stellar image archive. The most recent, full-resolution solar image of each type is in the SDAC archive.

The AAO has made available a collection of spectacular color pictures created by David Malin. The photographs are probably the best *real* color images of the cosmos and all the interesting objects it contains. The photographs are taken through three separate color filters and the results are then combined to form a single color photograph which shows how the celestial objects would appear if our eyes were able to perceive colors from such faint sources.

A gallery of NASA's best images from their planetary exploration programs.

The Web Nebulae allows you to browse through a collection of images of almost thirty different nebulae, links with descriptive explanations as well as a appendix on how nebulae are classified as well as terms and image credits.

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Updated: 08.28.05