Open-science practice · Operated by SAO for NASA
The ADS Literature Service
NASA's Astrophysics Data System, the digital library of astronomy — indexing essentially the entire research literature and linking every paper to the data, catalogues, and objects it uses, so the literature and the data are one connected web.
Highlights
- ›The digital library that indexes all of astronomy
Organisations, telescopes & standards
Used across the archive
Knowledge connections
- Associated withSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Associated withNASA
- Associated withPersistent Identifiers
- Associated withCitation-Aware Answers
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.