IMAGE CREDITS
Home Page: Ground-based optical image of the Andromeda Galaxy (aka Messier 31). The Andromeda Galaxy is a large spiral galaxy - similar to our own galaxy, the Milky Way - and a close neighbor at a distance of about 2 million light-years. Courtesy of T.A. Rector and B.A.Wolpa (National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation).
The Telescope As A Time Machine: Courtesy of the MAXIMA Collaboration.
The Quest To Boraden Our Cosmic View: Radio image courtesy of T.M. Dame, Dap Hartmann, and P.Thaddeus (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). Infrared, x-ray, and gamma-ray images courtesy of NASA and provided by the Astrophysics Data Facility. Optical image courtesy of A.Mellinger (University of Potsdam).
The First Sources Of Light In The Universe: Courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST): Courtesy of J. Lawrence (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
How Galaxies Took Shape: Courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (Space Telescope Science Institute).
The Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope (GSMT): Courtesy of the New Initiatives Office at the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
Violent Events In The Cosmos:Optical image courtesy of P. Scowen and J. Hester (Arizona State University) and Mt. Palomar Observatories. X-ray image courtesy of NASA, the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
New Instruments For X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy: Constellation-X illustration courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. G292.0+1.8 image courtesy of NASA, the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, and J. Hughes et al.(Rutgers University).
What Happens At The Heart Of A Galaxy: Courtesy of NASA and E.Schreier (Space Telescope Science Institute).
Radio Waves Can Probe The Centers Of Violent Galaxies: Both images courtesy of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
The Orgins of Stars and Planets: Courtesy of P. Scowen and J. Hester (Arizona State University) and NASA.
The Telescope System Instrumentation Program (TSIP): Courtesy of Doug Johnstone (National Research Council of Canada), John Bally (University of Colorado), and NASA.
Surveying the Universe With Increased Accuracy: Courtesy of NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the High-Z SN Search Team.
The Large-Aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): Asteroid image courtesy of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and the National Space Science Data Center. Gravitational lens image courtesy of W.N. Colley and E. Turner (Princeton University), J. Anthony Tyson (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), and NASA.
Gravitational Radiation A New Way To See The Cosmos: Scientific calculation by M. Miller, W.-M. Suen, and M. Tobias (Washington University); visualization by Werner Benger (Albert-Einstein- Institut/Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik).
The Laser Interfermoter Space Antenna (LISA): Courtesy of W. Folkner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory,California Institute of Technology).
Solar Astrophysics: Courtesy of the SOHO/EIT Consortium. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is an international project conducted by the European Space Agency and NASA.
Observing the Sun with Three New Instruments: Courtesy of the SOHO/EIT Consortium. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is an international project conducted by the European Space Agency and NASA.
The Quest To Find Other Earths: Courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (Space Telescope Science Institute).
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF): Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
High-Priority Projects In Astronomy and Astrophysics: Courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (Space Telescope Science Institute).