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Loading contentA photograph is not decoration — it is scientific evidence. This archive catalogues openly-licensed and public-domain astronomical imagery with verified provenance: source, instrument, license, and credit, all linked to the Knowledge Graph.
21 images · 14 collections · 9 source archives · every image openly licensed or public domain
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team
The first full-colour science images from the James Webb Space Telescope, released in July 2022.
Long exposures that reveal thousands of distant galaxies in a tiny patch of sky.
Direct horizon-scale images of supermassive black holes.
Clouds of gas and dust where stars are born and where they end their lives.
Island universes of stars, from the Milky Way to the deep field.
Worlds of our own Sun — planets, moons, and the Sun itself.
The Red Planet, seen from orbit and from its surface.
The largest planet and its dynamic atmosphere.
The ringed planet and its moons.
Our star across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Our home world seen from the Moon, from orbit, and from billions of kilometres away.
Images from the Apollo missions to the Moon.
Images from the twin Voyager probes on their grand tour and beyond.
Images from the Cassini mission to Saturn.
The platform is prepared to ingest from these open archives; images are currently catalogued by hand with verified provenance. All providers are planned — nothing is scraped or ingested automatically yet.
NASA · public-domain
Space Telescope Science Institute · public-domain
European Space Agency · cc-by-4-0
European Space Agency · cc-by-4-0
European Southern Observatory · cc-by-4-0
EHT Collaboration · cc-by-4-0
NSF NOIRLab · cc-by-4-0
Wikimedia Foundation · public-domain
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