Astronomy: Astronomy/Astrophysics Organizations

Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints. 

NASA Organizations

NASA
Vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, our nation's gateway to exploring, discovering and understanding our universe.
National Space Science Data Center
NASA's permanent archive for space science mission data.

Other Organizations

American Association of Variable Star Observers
American Astronomical Society
American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences
American Institute of Physics
American Nuclear Society
American Physical Society
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Center for Adaptive Optics
European Space Agency
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Institute of Physics
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Space Society
SETI Institute
Space Telescope Science Institute
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
U.S. Department of Energy