Dataset Resources
- Data.nasa.gov - large directory of NASA datasets from satellites, telescopes, space probes, etc.
- SoundCloud NASA - directory of sounds recorded from space
- Space Audio - the sounds of space collected by University of Iowa instruments on various spacecrafts
- setiQuest project data from Allen Telescope Array
- European VLBI Network Archive - radio observations combining data from many telescopes across Europe
- MERLIN Data Archive (radio) - the catalogue of processed MERLIN data (UK-based radio interferometer) since June 1991
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (gamma ray)
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (optical)
- U.S. astronomy datasets (via Data.gov)
- MAST archive (The Multimission Archive at STScI supports a variety of astronomical data archives, with a primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum)
- Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library (STIL) - Generic Java Table Handling for Astronomy
- STILTS - The STIL Tool Set is a set of command-line tools based on STIL
- SETI Institute Data - they've just announced upcoming APIs for some of their data.
- Exoplanet orbit database - properties of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. See also the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia and the Visual Exoplanet Catalogue
- http://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/
- Galaxy Zoo - more than 40 million morphological classifications of 900,000 SDSS galaxies by over 100,000 people.
- NASA/IPAC Infrared Data Archive (http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/)
- NASA SkyView: multiwavelength, all-sky data server. (http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
- VizieR: a very complete collection of astronomical databases. http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR. For instance get the entire Tycho-II catalog (every star in the sky brighter than 12th mag) or the Hipparcos catalog. (several hundred thousand stars with distances)
- Tycho-2 catalog -- 2.5 million brightest stars -- http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dstn/temp/scihackday/tycho2-cut.fits
- Partiview page from NCSA'S Advanced Visualization Laboratory
- Selden Ball's Partiview planets
- Partiview examples from NEMO Stellar Dynamics Toolbox
- XML definition from IVOA
- ATpy, python4astronomers, astropy, PyVO from Astropython
- VO tagged posts from Astropython
- VO-enabled services from NASA High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
- VOClient from the U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO)
- GSchwarz VOTable resources from American Astronomical Society authors
- An explanation of SPICE from NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF)
- SPICE tutorials
- Intro to SPICE
- SPICE data sets
- Official SPICE toolkits (C, FORTRAN, IDL, MATLAB)
- SPICE at ESA
- Voyager related SPICE data
- SpiceyPy SPICE python wrapper
- PySPICE SPICE python wrapper
- Hall of the Universe Tour
- Look Back in Time
- Constellations in Motion
- Expansion of the Universe
- Space Weather
- Solar Activity
- Orbital Projections
- Cosmic Weight Loss
- Solar System Scale
- NASA Missions
- DU in VR
- Dark Matter
- Space Flight Dashboard
- Eyes on Earth
- Human Presence Space Map
- UI for DU
- API for DU
- Mobile UX for DU
- Build a Working Solar System
- Wiki of Resources
- Scale Transitioning
- Flight Status for Partiview
- Wild Card
