Astroinformatics & the Virtual Research Ecosystem Dataset
The software, computing, and data practices of data-intensive astronomy — the research software (scientific Python, Astropy, SunPy, Jupyter, Astroquery, visualisation), the research computing (HPC, GPU, cloud, distributed, science platforms, containers), and the concepts (workflows, provenance, query languages, big-data astronomy, the virtual research environment).
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- 1.0.0
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- 28
- Last generated
- 2026-06-29
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- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sample (24 of 28)
| Name | Type | ID |
|---|---|---|
| Aladin | Research software | research_software:aladin |
| AstroImageJ | Research software | research_software:astroimagej |
| Astronomical Query Languages | Astroinformatics concept | astroinformatics_concept:astronomical-query-languages |
| Astropy | Research software | research_software:astropy |
| Astroquery | Research software | research_software:astroquery |
| Big-Data Astronomy | Astroinformatics concept | astroinformatics_concept:big-data-astronomy |
| CASA | Research software | research_software:casa |
| Cloud Computing | Research computing | research_computing:cloud-computing |
| Containerisation & Reproducible Environments | Research computing | research_computing:containerisation |
| Data Provenance | Astroinformatics concept | astroinformatics_concept:data-provenance |
| Distributed Computing | Research computing | research_computing:distributed-computing |
| GPU Computing | Research computing | research_computing:gpu-computing |
| High-Performance Computing | Research computing | research_computing:high-performance-computing |
| IRAF | Research software | research_software:iraf |
| Jupyter Notebooks | Research software | research_software:jupyter-notebooks |
| Montage | Research software | research_software:montage |
| Orekit | Research software | research_software:orekit |
| poliastro | Research software | research_software:poliastro |
| Research Software Engineering | Astroinformatics concept | astroinformatics_concept:research-software-engineering |
| SAOImage DS9 | Research software | research_software:ds9 |
| Science Platforms | Research computing | research_computing:science-platforms |
| Scientific Visualization | Research software | research_software:scientific-visualization |
| Scientific Workflows | Astroinformatics concept | astroinformatics_concept:scientific-workflows |
| Skyfield | Research software | research_software:skyfield |
Source references
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.
- 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.
- NSF NOIRLabNSF National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory
Ground-based optical/infrared observatory data and imagery.