Curated Notebooks covering various topics and missions—from astroquery to JWST to Kepler. Whether you're new to MAST or a longtime user, this is the place to discover the latest programmatic tips and tricks from the people who built the Archive.
Notebook Repo
TIKE: Cloud Science
Learn to work in the cloud! TIKE is a free, cloud-compute environment that runs Jupyter Notebooks in your browser with JupyterLab. Hosted alongside MAST archival data, it is significantly faster to use TIKE than to download and analyze data on your computer. There’s terabytes of observations from TESS, Kepler, HST, GALEX, and more, at your fingertips; no installation required!
Open TIKE
MAST Documentation
Read documentation on many MAST services, including the Portal, the Modernized MAST Search, HLSPs and more.
View MAST Docs
Pan-STARRS Catalog Search
The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS or PS1) is a wide-field imaging facility developed at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy for a variety of scientific studies from the nearby to the very distant Universe. The PS1 catalog allows searches for the mean measurements and the deeper stacked measurements from images combining all the epochs
Exoplanet Atmosphere Observability Table
This table is intended for selecting targets when planning observations of exoplanet atmospheres through transmission and emission. The SNR values, based on observed star and planet parameters, provide guidelines for different wavebands and techniques to allow users to determine those exoplanets most amenable to atmospheric characterization
Astroquery
A streamlined interface for Python users to access data in MAST. Replicates most functions of the MAST Portal web interface. Access MAST queries using the same function conventions and return types available for all Astroquery services. Integrate easily with Astropy functionality and other Python analysis tools.