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Research software

Astroquery

An Astropy-affiliated package that lets researchers query the major astronomical archives and databases directly from code. Instead of clicking through web forms, a scientist can pull catalogues and images from MAST, VizieR, SIMBAD, and dozens of other services programmatically, making analyses scriptable and repeatable.

Highlights

  • Programmatic access to the archives

Across astroinformatics

Knowledge connections

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.