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Three bibliographic databases containing more than 11.3 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints.

HEASARC archive contains data obtained by high-energy astronomy missions observing in the extreme-ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray bands, as well as data from space missions, balloons, and ground-based facilities that have studied the relic cosmic microwave background radiation in the sub-mm, mm and cm bands.

IRSA is chartered to curate the science products of NASA's infrared and submillimeter missions, including many large-area and all-sky surveys. In total, IRSA provides access to more than 20 billion astronomical measurements, including all-sky coverage in 20 bands. Approximately 10% of all refereed astronomical journal articles cite data sets curated by IRSA.

The NRAO Data Archive System is a new data archive and cataloging system which is intended to replace earlier archives. All astronomical data from NRAO telescopes will be archived and cataloged in this unified system, with the data accessible by direct ftp downloads. The archive currently contains raw data (GBT files in FITS binary table format, export files from the VLA, and FITS-IDI files from the VLBA) and catalog tables, containing the meta-data from each observation (position, time on source, frequency, bandwidth, etc).

The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. MAST is located at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).

The ESO Science Archive Facility contains data from ESO telescopes at La Silla Paranal Observatory, including the APEX submillimeter telescope on Llano de Chajnantor. In addition, the raw UKIDSS/WFCAM data obtained at the UK Infrared Telescope facility in Hawaii are available.

Welcome to the Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA). The ATOA provides access to: Australia Telescope Compact Array unprocessed data taken between between 3 Jun 1990 and 20 Jan 2016; Mopra (mostly MOPS) unprocessed data taken between 10 May 1998 and 04 Dec 2015; Parkes unprocessed spectral line and continuum data taken between 18 Apr 1991 and and 18 Nov 2015; VLBI correlated long baseline data taken between Nov 1993 and 16 Mar 2011; Data products from several surveys with the Mopra Telescope.
For Parkes pulsar data see the link to the CSIRO Data Access Portal.

Raw and pipeline-reduced data from NOAO telescopes and instruments, and from NOAO observing programs on telescopes operated by the WIYN, SOAR and SMARTS consortia; Reduced, high-level science data products from the NOAO Surveys Program.

SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Ray.

he European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESA's second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has created the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe ever made, with deep multi-color images of one third of the sky, and spectra for more than three million astronomical objects. Learn and explore all phases and surveys—past, present, and future—of the SDSS.