Aladin

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CDS support team

Last updated

November 09, 2026

CDS is experiencing a cybersecurity incident within its network of servers located in Strasbourg. Our teams are taking steps to assess and mitigate the issue. This includes taking some systems offline to help protect them. As a consequence, access to SIMBAD, VizieR, Aladin image surveys, X-Match and other services hosted on our main site cds.unistra.fr is currently degraded.

We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may cause. Our teams are doing their best to investigate the incident, and restore full access to the services located in Strasbourg as soon as possible.

This page provides some alternatives for accessing Aladin services in the meantime.

Aladin

Aladin Lite

Instead of using the Aladin Lite source code linked from aladin.cds.unistra.fr, the latest version of Aladin Lite JavaScript source code can be downloaded from here : aladin.js.

A fallback version of the Aladin Lite previewer is available on this website : https://aladin.cds.unistra.fr/AladinLite/

It includes a list of HiPS available from mirror sites, an object name resolver, and link to SIMBAD mirror.

HiPS surveys

Links to alternative servers providing the most popular HiPS image surveys :

A complete list of HiPS surveys available is listed here.

Other services

You will find fallback information for other CDS services on this page.