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The AAS WorldWide Telescope from Python

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pywwt: AAS WorldWide Telescope from Python/Jupyter

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The pywwt package is the official toolkit for visualizing astronomical data in Python using AAS WorldWide Telescope (WWT). WWT is a free, open-source tool for visually exploring humanity’s scientific understanding of the Universe. It includes a sophisticated 4D WebGL rendering engine and a cloud-based web service for sharing and visualizing terabytes of astronomical data. WWT is brought to you by the non-profit American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, and the .NET Foundation.

A WWT screenshot showing exoplanets in the Kepler field overlaid on a background sky map.

With pywwt you can:

  • Visualize and explore astronomical data interactively in the Jupyter and JupyterLab environments through an HTML widget
  • Do the same in standalone applications with a Qt widget
  • Load data from common astronomical data formats (e.g. AstroPy tables) into WWT
  • Control a running instance of the WWT Windows application

The full documentation, including installation instructions, can be found at http://pywwt.readthedocs.io/.

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Acknowledgments

The AAS WorldWide Telescope (WWT) system, including pywwt, is a .NET Foundation project. Work on WWT and pywwt has been supported by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the US National Science Foundation (grants 1550701 and 1642446), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Microsoft.

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