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Data standard

ASDF

A modern, human-readable data format developed by the astronomy community as a successor to FITS for complex data — used by the James Webb Space Telescope for its calibration and world-coordinate metadata and adopted as the primary data format of the Roman mission.

Organisations, telescopes & standards

Knowledge connections

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

    Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.