EarthSpace

Images on the Web for Astronomy Teaching: Image Repositories

Target Audience:

• Faculty / Instructors
• K-12 Teachers
• Undergraduates

Brief description of the resource guide and its strengths:

This guide lists and reviews websites with catalogs of astronomical images that are useful for both formal and informal education. 

URL

http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/AERSCZ-ft/vol_7/iss_1/132_1.html

Description

This guide includes 61 Web sites with catalogs of astronomical images that are useful for both formal and informal education. Some are general sites (including images covering many topics), whereas others are particular to one topic or one instrument. We briefly discuss getting started in using images, and copyright and fair use issues.

A PDF version can be found at: http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=AERSCZ000007000001000132000001&idtype=cvips&doi=10.3847/AER2008012&prog=normal 

Topics

The sun and solar physics; Planetary science; Planetary geology; Terrestrial planets; Jovian planets; Moons; Lunar science; Asteroids and comets; General astronomy; The Sun and Solar System (including the Earth-Moon system, asteroids and comets); Stars and Stellar Systems (including exoplanets, star formation and evolution, compact objects); Interstellar medium, nebulae; The (Milky Way) Galaxy and Local Group; Galaxies (beyond the Local Group); Cosmology

Submitted By:

First Name:	Andrew
Last Name:	Fraknoi
Institution:	Foothill College
Website:	www.foothill.edu/ast/fraknoi.php
Date:	01/27/2013