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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

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.