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Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
MAST archives astronomical datasets from missions including Hubble, Kepler and TESS across optical, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths.
About Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes
The Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) archives astronomical data in optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths from over a dozen missions, including Hubble, Webb, Kepler, and TESS. Users can search images, spectra, catalogs, timeseries, and publication records through the MAST Portal, mission-specific forms, catalog searches, and programmatic interfaces.
The modernized MAST Search currently supports Hubble and JWST, with more missions to be added, and Roman is described as a future mission. MAST also provides tools for SQL queries, TESS cutouts, exoplanet and extragalactic searches, cloud-based notebooks, and creation of DOIs for specific data sets.
Key features
- Search images, spectra, catalogs, timeseries and publication records in one place
- Run SQL queries on catalogs with storage in user database
- Generate cutouts for targets within TESS full-frame images
- Search exoplanet data, parameters and transit observations
- Access data programmatically via Python Astroquery and HTTPS webservice
- Create digital object identifiers for specific data sets
Best for: Researchers and students working with optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared data from missions such as Hubble, Webb, Kepler, and TESS.
Good for
- Hosts data from over a dozen missions in one archive
- Offers multiple search paths including Portal, mission-specific forms, and catalogs
- Provides programmatic access through Astroquery, webservice, and HTTP GET requests
Watch out for
- Modernized MAST Search currently supports Hubble and JWST only
Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at a glance
- Website
- archive.stsci.edu
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes FAQ
Can I contribute data to MAST?
Yes, MAST provides an option to contribute mission data and host small missions.
How can I analyze data without downloading it?
TIKE is a cloud-compute environment that runs Jupyter Notebooks in the browser alongside MAST archival data.
How do I find publications that use MAST data?
MAST offers a bibliographic search to find publications that use its data and a biweekly publications mailing list.
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