Astronomy image question: Where to find the best image of the hubble deep field? or the deep field south, or the ultra-deep field? I've got jpegs, but imagine I was a real astronomer looking at these things, where do i find the best, uncompressed versions?
posted by Gankmore on Oct 3, 2007 - 6 answers

Astronomy-n00b question: Let's say I wanted to make a somewhat accurate 3D model of the major visible stars of the Pleiades cluster (say for, oh, i dunno.. an art project?). How would I go about acquiring the appropriate data? [more inside]
posted by Gankmore on Mar 2, 2007 - 6 answers