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Astroinformatics

Research Software Engineering

The recognition that scientific software deserves the same care as any other research output: version control, testing, documentation, code review, and open licensing. As astronomy has grown more computational, sustaining and citing the software behind results has become a discipline in its own right.

Data, tools & facilities

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.