PyPI Stats
astropy

astropy

Astronomy and astrophysics core library
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
143.5K
Week
926.3K
Month
3.8M
Stars
5.1K
Forks
2.1K
Issues
1.3K
Version
7.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
81
Adoption
80
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,826,016
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,826,016
Stars
5,142
Stars per 1k downloads
1.34
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
• Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
132,329
Month daily avg
127,534
Momentum
+3.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
161 days ago
Total releases
159
Releases/year
12.0
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
618
Monthly downloads
3,826,016
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
80
 
Issue Burden
252.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
157d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 66.4K
Windows 1.6K
macOS 1.5K

Python Versions

3.12
50.8% 32.0K
3.11
24.6% 15.5K
3.13
9.2% 5.8K
3.10
7.9% 5.0K
3.9
7.5% 4.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
52.8K
2. DE DE
5.3K
3. SG SG
3.7K
4. CN CN
2.4K
5. GB GB
2.2K
6. NL NL
832
7. JP JP
390
8. FR FR
294
9. AU AU
283
10. IN IN
254

Dependencies

5
54 optional dependencies

Used By

2273
View all 2273 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
January 26, 2013
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
7.2.0
Total Releases
159
Contributors
618
Open PRs
128
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
astronomy astrophysics cosmology space science units table wcs samp coordinate fits modeling models fitting ascii
Topics
python astronomy science astrophysics astropy
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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