The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator is here to help all home astronomy enthusiasts waiting to explore the treasure trove of archival astronomical images and spectra from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the European Space Agency?s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, NASA?s Spitzer Space Telescope and many other famous telescopes.

The free software plug-in for Adobe Photoshop¸ or Adobe Photoshop Elements¸ developed by imaging scientists at the European Space Agency, the European Southern Observatory and NASA makes the immense wealth of astronomical images and spectra stored in data archives around the world accessible to the layman.

Credit: ESA, ESO and NASA