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Galaxy - Any of the numerous large-scale aggregates of stars, gas, and dust that constitute the universe, containing an average of 100 billion solar masses and ranging in diameter from 1,500 to 300,000 light-years. Also called nebula.  Our Galaxy Is The Milky Way.

• Collection of Galaxy Pair/Interacting Galaxies Images - from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama.

• Dust in Spiral Galaxies - HST and ISO Results.

• European Network: The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies - Our goal is to understand how galaxies formed and how the Universe has evolved over the last 90 percent of its history. The program will study distant galaxies at optical, infrared, and radio frequencies. In addition it will be coupled to theoretical work on protogalactic collapse, on galaxy evolution, and on the interaction of galaxies with their environment.

• Extragalactic bookmarks - List of resources dedicated to extragalactic astronomy: Databases, projects, education ...

• Galaxies - Many selected links to websites dedicated to galaxies.

• Galaxies - NASA Windows to the Universe

• The Galaxy Catalog - A collection of digital images of 113 nearby galaxies. Princeton University.

• Galaxy Collisions - A review article for non-specialists.

• Galaxy Pair Picture Gallery - Images of interacting galaxy pairs

• High Redshift Supernova Search - Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to search for supernovas in very remote galaxies. This provides an accurate means of measuring the distances to remote galaxies and thereby determining the age of the universe.

• The Messier Catalog

• UMass High Energy Astrophysics Group - Research group primarily interested in high energy activities in galaxies, particularly the interplay between massive stars and the interstellar medium.

• The Web Nebulae    - About fifty stunning images.
• AAO Color photographs - A very large cataloged assortment of images. Easy to load and navigate.
• Aladin previewer - allows you to get images of any astronomical fields from the Aladin image server at CDS (Strasbourg - France).
• ALEXIS Images - 20 postage stamp images from ALEXIS.
• Al's CCD Astronomy Imaging - Amateur ccd images in color and grayscale links to imaging software.
• Amateur's images. - A page to view and submit images from amateur astronomers.
• The APM Galaxy Survey - Summary of the APM Galaxy Survey with images.
• Astro Gallery - User contributed images of deep sky, solar system, and astronomy-related.
• Astro-2 UIT Release Pictures - Astro-2 UIT Release Pictures
• Astrojan Astronomical Picture Collection - Images of galaxies and nebulae. Pictures of Solar System.
• Astronomical Image Galleries - Pictures of Messier objects, galaxies, clusters, comets, and some instructional material at University of Alabama.
• Astronomical Image Library - View astronomical images from our searchable index of tens of thousands online.
• Astronomical Images - University of Mass. index of images. Thumbnails.
• Astronomical Pictures of Galaxies - Astronomy Images - Astronomy pictures with 1200 images of Spiral and Elliptical Galaxies, Nebulae and Planets of Solar System.
• Astronomy - A list of images and text from the UOregon Gallery. Very nice.
• Astronomy Gallery - High-resolution photographs of galaxies, nebulae, and other astronomical objects.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
• Black Holes - Observational evidence of black holes, from Cambridge.
• Bright Supernovae - Hope they own stock in Kodak. Too many images to count.
• Celestial atlas (1826) - If your interested in a little history, check this out. It's rather large.
• Chandra Press Room - Images of the Chandra orbiter and some images of galaxies.
• Clementine Lunar Image Browser 1.5 - Moon from a satellite
• CNES : clementine image browser - The CLEMENTINE Spacecraft, was launched on January the 25th 1994, and performed in 71 days the first multi-spectral systematic mapping of the Moon.
• Colleen Gino's CCD Image Gallery - A selection of CCD images taken primarily with the TIE 24" telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory.
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (JPL) - From NASA/JPL.
• Deep Space Phenomena by Danny Scheinerman - A personal page with lots of deep space images.
• Digital Images of the Sky - Gallery for Astronomical Images
• Digitized Sky Survey - Digitized images of the whole sky. Check out the other sites they list if you want lower-resolution images that don't take so long to load, or images of larger regions of the sky.
• Extrasolar Research Corporation - Image and text of one of the new proto-planets.
• Galactic Images - Astronomical pictures for sale.
• The galaxy catalog - A collection of images of 113 nearby galaxies.
• Galaxy Cluster Mug Shots - From the U. of Alabama.
• The Galaxy Gallery: - Messier Objects
• Galileo images of asteroids - Part of a tour of the solar system, intended for younger children.
• Galileo's Middle Finger - A Historical sidetrack. They are not kidding. The middle finger of the famous astronomer.
• Hale-Bopp - Some images of the comet, click the thumbnails for full screen views.
• Hubble Heritage Project - Team of astronomers and astrophysicists preparing images from Hubble Space Telescope.
• Hubble Heritage Project: Archive Gallery Page - More Hubble images.
• HubbleSite - Gallery - At the official online home of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope exists a gallery of the best pictures that the Hubble has taken.
• Image Gallery - From the University of Colorado.
• Images of Comets - From the Brazil National Observatory
• IPAC Gallery - Images and information.
• ISO Science Gallery - This gallery is devoted to scientific results from ISO with the latest science images at the top of the Gallery.
• Jim Scotti's Comet page - Images of comets you've never heard of.
• Kim's Korner of Astronomy - Pictures and descriptions of planets, nebulae, galaxies, stars and constellations.
• Kopernik SPACE Images - Better bring your lunch. It's going to take all day to view all these deep space images.
• Laboratory for Astronomy & Solar Physics - Their home page with information and images.
• Live Space Cams - realtime images
• Magellan Image Server - This site is rather simple. Lots of images from Venus, like you've never seen.
• Main ASCA Images page - Images.
• Mars Global Surveyor Images - From the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
• MC Emission-line Image Gallery - SNR's in the Magellanic Cloud. Beautiful.
• Meadow View Observatory - A collection of color ccd images of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and solar system objects.
• NASA Image Library - Pictures of several astronomy related projects, plus images of the Apollo program.
• NED - NASA Extragalactic Database. Searchable catalog.
• New cool pics from Hubble - June 9, 1997 - More media Hubble images.
• Northeast Prominence and Solar Observatory - Many images.
• NRC / HIA images - The Herzberg Institutes gallery.
• NSSDC Photo Gallery - Some overlap with the other NSSDC site, but different text and some other images.
• NSSDC Photo Gallery - by NASA's National Space Science Data Center.
• NSSDC PLANETARY IMAGE CATALOG - Planetary images as seen from satellites and ground based observatories. Fact sheets on each planet. Updated regularly.
• Perth Astronomical Research Group - Before and after images of super nova discovered by the Perth Astronomical Research Group.
• Planetary Nebulae Image Index Page - Hundreds of images.
• Plaskett Telescope Gallery - Images
• Profitable pairs. - Interacting galaxies.
• Skyphoto - Sky and space photos for sale by Jerry Schad.
• SL-9 and Jupiter - Images from ESO
• Space Image Libraries - index of space-related images by NASA's Aerospace Education Services Program at Oklahoma State University
• Space Images Archive - From SEDS
• SPIF - Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility. A list of planetary images.
• Star Formation Pillars in M16 - Features wallpaper of Eagle Nebula photograph taken by the Hubble telescope.
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey - A search tool. If you know the co-ordinates or the name of an object, this search will find the image for you.
• STScI/HST Pictures - Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Sun Images - from SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
• Sunspots: Introduction 1 of 1 - History and images of sunspots.
• SuperNovae Key Project - Images with text.
• UA Astronomical Image Galleries - A large collection.
• USGS Flagstaff Solar System Browser - Browse the Solar System. Kids will love this.
• The Web Nebulae - Information and over 50 pictures of nebulae.
• X-Ray Astronomy Gallery - Index - ROSAT images.
• X-ray Timing Explorer Images - XTE page with images of the launch and from the telescope.
• ADC - Astronomical Data Center - NASA's ADC is a resource for astronomical data, catalogs, and journal tables.
• The Aladin Sky Atlas - Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized images of any part of the sky, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogs or personal, user data files, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database and Vizier service for all known objects in the field.
• Astronomer's Bazaar - CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
• Astronomical Data Center - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Astronomical Data Analysis Center
• Astronomical Information Systems - Includes the web release of DIRA2 catalogues database, and SkyEye, a service to access to Digital Sky Survey on JukeBox.
• CADC - Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
• CATS Database - Astrophysical CATalogs support System.
• CDS - Astronomical databases, bibliography, documentation, directory.
• CFHT Archive - The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Archive.
• DSS - The Digitized Sky Survey - At the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
• Einstein Online Service - Einline - Telnet access
• ESO and Space Telescope Science Archive Facilities - The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility ( ST-ECF an ESA/ESO Joint Venture) Archive Server
• ESO/ST-ECF USNO-A1.0 Catalogue Server - The Online USNO-A1.0 Catalogue Server at the ESO/ST-ECF Archive provides access to the all-sky catalogue from the set of ten CD-ROMs produced by the US Naval Observatory within the Precise Measurement Machine Project.
• Hypercat: Extragalactic database - Search data about millions of galaxies by their name or celestial position. Also an archive of 100,000 images of galaxies.
• IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams - Made an astronomical discovery? Report it to the International Astronomical Union here!
• Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) - Sky map and point source catalogs from the all-sky survey.
• MAST: Multimission Archive at STScI - MAST supports a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
• Multiwavelength Milky Way - The Astrophysics Data Facility (ADF), located at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library - The purpose of the Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL) is to collect astronomical, research-quality images and make them available to the astronomical community and the general public. Patrons access the Library through the World Wide Web (WWW) to search for and browse images. Once images are located in the Library, users may download them to their local machines in FITS format for further analysis.
• NED - NASA Extragalactic Database - built around a master list of extragalactic objects for which cross-identifications of names have been established, accurate positions and redshifts entered to the extent possible, and some basic data collected. Bibliographic references relevant to individual objects have been compiled, and abstracts of extragalactic interest are kept on line. Detailed and referenced photometry, position, and redshift data, have been taken from large compilations and from the literature.
• NVSS Postage Stamp Server - This postage Stamp server for NRAO/VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) returns radio images of the sky in FITS or JPEG format.
• Personal Web pages - A list of the personal web pages of professional astronomers from around the world. Extensive.
• SAO Telescope Data Center - The SAO Telescope Data Center creates and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts and the 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.
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database - brings together basic data, cross-identifications, observational measurements and bibliography for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies.
• Starcast - Simultaneously queries many astronomical databases. Input target coordinates or name, data type, source, bandpass.
• STScI Archives - Hubble Space Telescope and Multimission archives.
• Technical Data for the Arecibo Airglow and Optical Instrumentation - From the Arecibo optical facility.
• 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 UTR-2 Catalogue - The very-low frequency sky survey of discrete sources has been obtained in the Institute of Radio Astronomy of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Kharkov, Ukraine) with the UTR-2 radio telescope at a number of the lowest frequencies used in contemporary radio astronomy within the range from 10 to 25 MHz.
• The VLA FIRST Survey - Faint images of the radio sky at the wavelength of 20 centimeters.
• WEBDA - WEBDA is a site devoted to stars in galactic open clusters. It offers an interface to a database collecting astronomical observations and bibliography.
• Observing Supernovae  - Site has an in-depth FAQ on how to observe faint supernovae, and what you need to do so. Site also links to references for confirming your observations.
• Arp's Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies - Summarizes catalog of 338 peculiar galaxy views gathered by Dr. Halton C. Arp in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
• Challenging Observing Projects for Amateur Astronomers - Deep-sky site challenges amateur astronomical observers.
• Deep-Sky Collections and Catalogs - Links to deep-sky catalogs and observing lists.
• Deep-Sky Sketches - Sketches of astronomical objects viewed through a telescope.
• Deep-Sky.Org - Features a reference of Messier objects, telescope information, and deep-sky links.
• Drawings of Deep-Sky Objects with Large Telescopes - Site also has a link to discussions on visual observing.
• Ian's Astro Page - Sketches of deep-sky objects from a light-polluted site using 5" and 8" STCs.
• Iiro's DeepSky Pages - Video clips, pictures, sketches, and reports.
• Impressions of the Deep Sky - Links to deep sky sites, sketches and photographs.
• List of Common Deep-Sky Catalogs - Listing of various common catalogs of deep-sky objects, along with abbrevations and short descriptions.
• The Messier Catalog - Images and information for all Messier objects from Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS).
• Messier45.com - Online tools for deep-sky observers, including maps and lists of objects with pictures and data.
• The National Deep-Sky Observers Society (NDSOS) - Dedicated to serving amateur deep-sky observers. Located in Louisville, Kentucky.
• NetAstroCatalog - Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog - IAAC - A forum for amateur astronomers at all levels to share their observations of deep-sky objects.
• NGC/IC Project - Objective is to correctly identify all of the original NGC and IC objects. Starts with the original discoverer's notes and moves forward to encompass the work of contemporary astronomers, both professional and amateur.
• Planetary Nebulae Observer's Web Site - Planetary nebula data, images and information on over 1000 planetaries.
• Radek's Observing Target List (ROTL) - Project to develop comprehensive set of finder charts for deep-sky objects. Includes basic data for and charts to locate objects with your telescope.
• Ray Cash's Deep-Sky Page - Photos and information about deep-sky observing.
• Sketching the Deep Sky - Site devoted to sketching deep-sky objects.
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