DISCLAIMERS
This website was created by the New Great Observatories Coalition, which is neither funded or endorsed by NASA, the National Academies, industry partners, or any specific academic institution. We are instead a large and growing grassroots community of scientists and engineers inspired by the visionary Astro2020 report and advocating for its priorities. Views expressed here are are entirely our own.
CREDITS
All pages on this website use public domain space telescope imaging from NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope missions, with credit to STScI/AURA, CXC/SAO, and JPL/Caltech/IPAC, respectively.
We are also grateful to Seán Doran for the permission to use his stunning work as photographic backdrops to this website. Some Earth stills are from his extraordinary film, ORBIT, which you can view in 4K here. All stills from this film are credit: NASA / ESRSU / Seán Doran© / Unauthorized use prohibited. View Mr. Doran’s extraordinary work here.
The JWST render shown on the landing page is by the phenomenal Adriana Manrique Gutierrez for NASA Goddard.
The UV/O/IR Observatory page uses a render of Enceladus created by Erik Wernquist for the jaw-dropping Cassini’s Grand Finale video production. The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. For more information about Cassini's Grand Finale, please visit here.
The X-ray Observatory page uses a custom black hole render by Nika Maizuradze (created for the Lynx team and used with the generous permission of Mr. Maizuradze). Check out Nika’s beautiful CG work here.
The Downloads page uses Very Large Telescope/SPHERE imaging of the AB Aurigae planetary system, and is credit ESO/Boccaletti et al.
This website also uses scientific figures and artwork originally created by the LUVOIR, HabEx, Lynx, and Origins teams for their respective Concept Study Reports. Explicit permission to use these images has been granted by the teams.
All other artwork and figures on this site were created by the New Great Observatories Coalition. You are welcome to use it for york own purposes under a Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 permissive licence.