Top Science & Engineering tools for astronomy โ made for students, researchers, engineers and curious minds. Every project below is a real, public GitHub repository, ranked by the stars the community gave it.
50 repositories ยท ranked by GitHub stars by default
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows, macOS and Haiku. With Stellarium, you really seeโฆ
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
An offline multi-tool Android app for hiking, backpacking, camping, wilderness survival, foraging, and hunting.
Real-time 3D visualization of space.
A Raspberry Pi operated allsky camera
Code, data, and instructions for mapping orbits of asteroids in the solar system
This is the official GitHub repository for OpenSpace: an open source astrovisualization project. For instructions on how to build and run OpenSpace, see the Getting Started Guidesโฆ
๐ซ An open-source multi-purpose N-body code.
Astronomy Picture of the Day API service
SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
Wolfram Language / Mathematica reimplementation in Rust (Wolfram oxidized)
Pure-Rust astronomical ephemeris for astrology โ Vedic, Western, Chinese, and 9 world traditions
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz
Solar Wanderer / ้จๆธธๅคช้ณ็ณป - 1:1 Real-Time Solar System Explorer in the Browser. NASA JPL ephemeris, WebGL2, Three.js. From solar surface to 100,000 AU Oort Cloud.
An open source Python package for plasma research and education
processing pipeline for James Webb Space Telescope imagery and spectroscopy
Weather, tides, the sun, the moon, maps, and a planetarium, in your terminal. The Old Farmer's Almanac meets Minitel.
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A Swift micro library for generating Sunrise and Sunset times on device, requiring no network access.
Model layer for Meteor
ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data
Main yt repository
Track satellites in your terminal
A friendly package for Kepler & TESS time series analysis in Python.
Software to manage a Linux-based All Sky Camera.
้ฅ้คฎ๏ผA curated collection of resources for astrophysical research
The Solar System modeled to scale with Three.js
Python extension to the Swiss Ephemeris
Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914),โฆ
A command-line tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky in SVG, PDF and PNG formats.
A Raspberry Pi Based Sun Tracker
Tutorials for the Astropy Project
Galaxy Engine is a fully interactive particle physics engine. Play with tens or hundreds of thousands of particles in real time
Castro (Compressible Astrophysics): An adaptive mesh, astrophysical compressible (radiation-, magneto-) hydrodynamics simulation code for massively parallel CPU and GPUโฆ
Astronomy LLMs, StarWhisper Telescope, Virtual Sitian, and astronomy research skills
Code and instructions for making topographic maps of planets and moons
GDL - GNU Data Language
Astropy package for source detection and photometry. Maintainer: @larrybradley
StarNet
Astronomical algorithms in Rust
Poorly written code that generates moderately exciting plots of a very specific physics phenomenon that enthralls dozens of us around the globe.
A Python package for gamma-ray astronomy
๐ฑ A fast line-by-line code for high-resolution infrared molecular spectra
Galactic Dynamics in python
Physical Optics Propagation in Python
Astrodynamics and Spacecraft Toolkit. Features fast orbit prop, celestial precession, CCSDS parsing, RF parsing, fits image parsing, and more!
The modular galaxy image simulation toolkit. Documentation:
Code, data, and instructions to map every star you can see from Earth
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics
3D astronomy and space exploration program.