Research Guides: Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences: Data

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Astrophysics Data System
Research portal operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) grant.

NASA Space Science Data- NASA's archive for space science mission data
NASA Open Data - NASA's catalog of publicly available NASA datasets, APIs, visualizations, and more
CERN OpenLab (through Zenodo)- Community on Zenodo specially from CERN
ShareGeo- Repository of geospatial data
NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database- Comprehensive database of multi wavelength data for extragalactic objects
VizieR- Access to thousands of astronomical catalogos of data tables
SIMBAD Astronomical Database - provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system
Milkulski Archive for Space Telescopes - lets you search multiple collections of astronomical datasets all in one place. Use this tool to find astronomical data, publications, and images

Data Management Planning (DMP) Tool- Web site that helps you create, plan, and share data management plans
Open Data Stack Exchange- Question and answer site for developers and researchers interested in open data
Figshare- Open repository for data outputs that is fully searchable and citable
GitHub- Repository for programmers using Git, an open source version control system