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# astropy: A Community Python Library for Astronomy

Version: 7.1.1 - What’s New in Astropy 7.1?

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The `astropy` package contains key functionality and common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics with Python. It is at the core of the Astropy Project, which aims to enable the community to develop a robust ecosystem of affiliated packages covering a broad range of needs for astronomical research, data processing, and data analysis.

Important

If you use Astropy for work presented in a publication or talk please help the project via proper citation or acknowledgement. This also applies to use of software or affiliated packages that depend on the astropy core package.

Getting Started

New to Astropy? Check out the getting started guides. They contain an introduction to astropy’s main concepts and links to additional tutorials.

Getting Started
User Guide

The user guide provides in-depth information on the key concepts of astropy with useful background information and explanation.

User Guide
Learn Astropy

Learn how to use Python for astronomy through tutorials and guides that cover Astropy and other packages in the astronomy Python ecosystem.

https://learn.astropy.org
Astropy Packages

The Astropy Project ecosystem includes numerous Coordinated and Affiliated packages. Coordinated packages are maintained by the Project.

https://www.astropy.org/affiliated/
Contributor’s Guide

Saw a typo in the documentation? Want to improve existing functionalities? The contributing guidelines will show you how to improve astropy.

Contributing
Project Details

What’s new in the latest release, changelog, and other project details.

Project Details