Keynote: Python's Contribution to Astronomy & Major Space Telescope Missions Megan Sosey | SciPy2022

Python has played a key role in developing software and supporting systems for major astronomical missions. It’s clear structure, ease of use, portability, extensibility, and a large contributing open-source community has improved the quality, speed, and accessibility of astronomical pipelines, visualization tools, and data itself. During this talk we’ll look at how this has influenced major missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, along with some of the contributions that this work has made back to the scientific python community.