Research software
Astropy
The community-developed core package for astronomy in Python, providing the shared building blocks the field relies on: physical units and constants, celestial coordinate transformations, time scales, cosmological calculations, and reading and writing of FITS and other data formats. A large ecosystem of affiliated packages builds on its foundation.
Highlights
- ›The community core package for astronomy in Python
Data, tools & facilities
Across astroinformatics
Knowledge connections
- Associated withThe Scientific Python Ecosystem
- Associated withFITS
- Associated withThe Scientific Python Ecosystem
- Associated withAstroquery
- Associated withSunPy
- Associated withResearch Software Engineering
- Associated withIRAF
- Associated withMontage
- Associated withSkyfield
- Associated withpoliastro
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- STScISpace Telescope Science Institute
Science operations and public image archives for the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes (MAST, HubbleSite, webbtelescope.org).
Hubble/Webb images released by NASA/STScI are generally free to use with a credit line; each item's terms are checked before use.