- NASA
- Astronomy updates, mission news, and Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD).
- NASA Image Library
- Public high-resolution space photography, telescopic observations, and planetary mission archives.
- ESA / Webb
- Current James Webb Space Telescope observations from ESA's official image feed.
- ESA / Hubble
- Current Hubble and observatory image releases from ESA's official image feed.
- ESO
- Current deep-sky, stellar, planetary, and observatory imagery from the European Southern Observatory.
- ESA
- Space mission updates and European space science news.
- arXiv
- Astronomy and astrophysics research preprints.
- USNO
- Moon phase, illumination, moonrise, moonset, and related lunar data.
- JPL SBDB
- Near-Earth object close-approach data from the Small-Body Database.
- The Space Devs
- Launches and spaceflight event data from Launch Library 2.
- Groq
- Astroboat Assistant responses and astronomy explanations.
Visual credits
Earth textures by Solar System Scope, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Textures are resized and compressed; the cloud channel is extracted from the combined texture distributed by Three.js. The static Earth image is NASA Earth Observatory’s Blue Marble (2002). The globe is an illustration; its lighting and orbital ring do not represent live conditions or scale.
The gallery preview shows the N44 superbubble, credited to NASA, ESA/Hubble, D. Gouliermis. The image is resized and compressed for this site.
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