Space Art
See also: Science Fiction, Thematic
Moonscope
A Museum of the History of Science, Oxford online exhibition that compares 18th century lunar drawings by John Russell to contemporary lunar watercolors by Rebecca Hind.
Heavens Above: Art and Actuality
An online exhibition that compares the 19th century art and science of artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with contemporary photographs taken by NASA, presented by The New York Public Library.
Photography
Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission
View an online collection of photographs from the American Museum of Natural History that feature up close images of Saturn's rings and moons.
Mars as Art
An exhibition photographs taken by NASA that represent Mars artistically.
HubbleSite: Gallery
Selected NASA photographs of our universe taken by the Hubble telescope and arranged into galleries, includes wallpapers and high resolution images.
NASA Images
View images from NASA online, includes photographs and videos as well as audio collections.
NSSDC Photo Gallery
A photo gallery presented by NASA's National Space Science Data Center, includes images of planets and other objects within our solar system.
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
Image collections of Earth as seen from space including pictures of the whole planet as well as pictures of specific places such as cites, mountains, rivers and so on.
Earth from Space
An online exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution featuring landscapes, seascapes, cites, and weather systems as seen from space.
Astronomy
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
View objects online related to astronomy from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Out of This World
An exhibition from the Rare Books Collection of the Linda Hall Library featuring images from The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas, includes 43 star maps and atlases from 1482-1851.
Starry Messenger: Observing the Heavens in the Age of Galileo
An online exhibition from the Beinecke Library, Yale University that includes a gallery of diagrams, charts, engravings, and texts that represent early European observations of the heavens.
The Night Sky in the Age of Vermeer: The Astronomer in Context
A small selection of images online and an overview of the exhibition from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Galileo at The Franklin Institute
Includes a small selection of images and related information online.
The Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De Witt
An online exhibition from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History featuring the oldest known American made star map.
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