NASA has a lot of great stuff on their sites, but I haven't been able
to find any formatted data. For instance, lists of stars and their
locations, lists of the planets and their various attributes, lists of
hubble photographs with titles and descriptions, etc. I have a site
that allows people to collect stuff and I think that astronomy info
would be neat to have.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 04 Feb 2006 02:29 PST

Take a look at Wikipedia's lists:

(Under astronomy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reference_tables#Physical_sciences_and_nature

Do those fit your needs?

Regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by mxnmatch-ga on 28 Feb 2006 20:02 PST

I was really hoping for formatted data. I'd have to write a special
program for each of those pages, but I guess if that's all there is
then that's all there is. I wish NASA and other public research places
would provide more data like that in an easily parseable format (like
an xml format whether it's a web service or not).

Anyway, I guess no one has a better answer, so go ahead and post it as an answer.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 28 Feb 2006 21:51 PST

Hi mxnmatch,

We can keep the question open for a few more days in the hopes another
researcher comes up with something else. If no one does, I will then
be happy to post it as an answer.

Best regards,
Rainbow

you might want to look at http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ (nasa's
database) also download this http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ it allows you
to view the sky(views taken from digital sky surveys(mainly galaxies
though not stars and planets)) and you can superimpose data(in
different wavebands ie x-ray infrared etc) over the optical views.

Data from a variety of NASA missions, including HST, may be retrieved
from the Multimission Archive at:

http://archive.stsci.edu/

managed by the Space Telescope Science Institute.