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The ADS icon represents the NASA Astrophysics Data System, the premier digital library portal providing access to the complete collection of astronomical and physics scholarly literature. This symbol serves as the essential research tool for astronomers and physicists worldwide, indexing over 15 million publications with full-text search and citation tracking capabilities.

In astrophysics research workflows, scientists at observatories like the European Southern Observatory and institutions including Caltech use ADS daily to search astronomical literature and track citation metrics. Research groups leveraging data from telescopes like Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope cite papers discovered through ADS, while graduate students in astronomy programs rely on the platform's comprehensive coverage for literature reviews and research discovery.

From an astronomical research perspective, this icon signifies more than just a search interface - it represents the central knowledge infrastructure enabling discovery across astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science, maintains backward citation tracking for historical papers dating to the 1800s, and provides sophisticated tools for bibliometric analysis unique to space science disciplines. This distinction helps researchers recognize ADS as the authoritative source for astronomical scholarship.

Ads is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds AdsIcon to components/icons/academicons-ads.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed AdsIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Ads icon, or any of 158 Academicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 512 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Ads", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. AdsIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <AdsIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Academicons, James Walsh and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

2 other libraries draw an icon called Ads. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are science, database, astronomy and research. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Ads in another set.