External Archives and Databases


  • AAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers

  • ADS: Astrophysics Data System (Harvard CfA)

  • APS/POSS: Automated Plate Scanner (U. Minnesota)

  • Astro-ph (Los Alamos National Lab)

  • COBE/DIRBE

  • DSS: Digital Sky Survey (STScI)

  • FIRST (VLA): Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (STScI)

  • HEASARC: High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Center (NASA-GSFC)

  • HST: Hubble Space Telescope (STScI)

  • ISO: Infrared Space Observatory (ESA)

  • MSX: Midcourse Space Experiment (IPAC)

  • NVSS: NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NRAO/VLA)

  • PDS: Planetary Data System (JPL)

  • ROSAT: Roentgen Satellite, All-Sky X-ray Survey (MPE, Germany)

  • SDSS: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  • SSDS: Space Science Data System

  • SIMBAD: Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data (U. Strasbourg, France)