Research software · Python
The Scientific Python Ecosystem
The open-source foundation of modern astronomical computing: the Python language together with NumPy for array mathematics, SciPy for scientific algorithms, and pandas for tabular data. Free and community-built, it has become the common language in which most astronomical analysis is now written.
Highlights
- ›The common language of astronomical analysis
Data, tools & facilities
Across astroinformatics
Knowledge connections
- Associated withAstropy
- Associated withDistributed Computing
- Associated withAstropy
- Associated withSunPy
- Associated withJupyter Notebooks
- Associated withScientific Visualization
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.