User blog:TheMajinTails/Possibly the best Place to get Images of Space

A Little Filler Blog with some Relevance to Star Spectrum, most specifically it's space theming. If you're looking for good Pictures of Space for this Wiki or other similar Projects I have a Suggestion that has so far worked well for me. Rather it be Planets, Galaxies, Nebula, etc. This image repository has it all.

What is it exactly? Well...it's not google, some image wallpaper website (which I will admit I've used images from those at one point or another), a stock image site, or anything else. It's...NASA's official site. Yes you heard me. Surprisingly they're very open about the images they have there. It has all the renders from their telescopes, satellites, rovers and other viewing methods all compiled into one big list. You'll have to search for what you're specifically looking for though, since it only displays some of the most recently uploaded.

It's helped me alot, now I don't have to random guess Images being real or fake (though this Wiki of course uses mixes of both). The Problem with Google Images, Stock Resources, and others is that sometimes the images may be copyrighted or have a License incompatible with FANDOM's default CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, which you have to convince them to change if desired and that's a whole mixed bag of results, and it technically STILL has to be somewhat compatible with CC 3.0, and often times while google images has a tiny text notice at the bottom, it's not very noticeable and very little times does it give the actual copyright information. It's worth noting you CAN use copyrighted images on fandom wikis, it just has to be under fair use - Presumingly any image you had to pay for to download or whatever, is what's restricted. Fandom also doesn't like images that are semi-copyrighted with similar licenses to CC-BY-SA, but for some reason or another, is actually incompatible with it. You can also use Public Domain images, since those are well...basically negative copyright, Expired Copyright, never Copyrighted, BEFORE copyright existed, etc...

However, with NASA's site, you don't have to worry about all that. They aren't going to cease and desist you, or fandom, for using a picture of the Moon or something. They have full unaltered images on a specifically designed webpage for it, and you can download them all for free. No Copyright is in the way of them, basically Public Domain or at least Free as far as it's going, and you don't have to scower for a specific image. See the background of this site? that's straight from NASA's site.

Okay, enough of that, I'm sure you want to know what in the name of the designer I'm talking about with the Image collection, so here it is: https://images.nasa.gov/

Have fun with that.