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NASA provides some materials free of charge, but I'm not sure how this works outside the United States. Of course, there are plenty of images online, but tracking down the very highest-res images, or images of decent quality, can be tricky.
The Hubble Space Telescope managing body, the Space Telescope Sciene Institute, has high-res images in its website for the news media.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/
Look under one of the categories and look for images. Just keep clicking.
Some of the images are extremely large, for example:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/28/image/a+warn
is a 211 MB image of the Sombrero Galaxy. We have a 1.5m x 2m transparency of this in a gallery, and it's stunning.
The NASA Planetary Photojournal also has images, but sometimes it's easier to go through the relevant mission website to find the best ones. For example:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06193
is reached through the Cassini website from:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/images.cfm?startImage=33&categoryID=1&subCategoryID=0
Mission websites are also usually good places to go to get images of spacecraft. Just look for the "media" or "press room" part of the website, and look for "broadcast quality" video or "images suitable for publication."
If there are specific images you're looking for, let me know.
Marc Taylor
Coordinator, Andrus Planetarium
Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10701
914 963 4550 x223
Fax 963 8558
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> Does somebody know where can I download free high resolution
> images related to Astronomy and recent space exploration? I
> need enough quality to make large prints. I will thank any
> information.
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> Sincerelly.
> Mario Martinez
> Planetario Alfa
> Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
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