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The close out process has been completed for the Kepler and K2 missions, which are now legacy missions hosted at MAST. Â This process has included finalizing documentation, adding new Jupyter notebook tutorials, and updating web content.
We are very excited to share that Astronify, a new data sonification software library from MAST, was featured on Baltimore’s local NPR station (WYPR) podcast Out of the Blocks. You can listen to the episode on their website, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.
A team of scientists working with the Astropy Project and NumFocus have developed a collection of Jupyter notebook tutorials that show how to retrieve and analyze the time series data collected from the Kepler and K2 missions.  These new tutorials cover a wide variety of topics basic processing to more specific science cases such as calculating stellar mass, and measuring rotation speed.
MAST's High-Level Science Products now include a new collection of K2 light curves from stellar clusters extracted using PSF models to improve performance within crowded environments, as well as updates to existing collections of light curves from both K2 and TESS.
On July 5, 2020, the two-year TESS Prime Mission came to a close, and the TESS Extended Mission began. Over the next 27 months, TESS will conduct additional observations of the celestial sphere intended to enhance the scientific output of the mission. The Extended Mission will include updates to the data collection modes and the methods of target selection, and observations of the ecliptic plane.
A new High-Level Science Product provides catalogs of unique sources in both near and far UV from the GALEX mission, along with cross-matches to SDSS DR14 and Gaia DR2 catalogs.
This Fall, MAST sites and services will begin handling requests using HTTPS protocol exclusively. Users can begin updating their own bookmarks, links, and scripts now in preparation for the coming transition.
New High-Level Science Products include a collection studying the lifetime exposure of exoplanets to stellar radiation using data from GALEX and HST, as well as a set of computed SEDs for white dwarf atmospheres using NLTE code across a range of stellar parameters. Updates are available for the HLF GOOD-S photometric catalog, and a new galaxy cluster added to the RELICS collection.
Now accepting applications for two data science positions at STScI. Come join the team!Â
Newly-reprocessed data from the TESS mission will be released through various MAST services, starting later this month. This will begin with northern hemisphere sector data, with more to follow.
MAST is proud to host a new collection of HST images of compact dwarf galaxy NGC 5253 in various wavelengths with improved astrometry, as well as more than three hundred thousand new processed TESS light curves added to two different existing collections.
Many data products for Hubble's WFCJ and ACS instruments have improved header WCS information based on Gaia catalog positions. A new Jupyter notebook is also available for assistance using and evaluating the new astrometry .
The second data release for the Wide Field Coverage for Juno collection includes HST and Gemini North observations of Jupiter covering additional satellite approaches between 2016 and 2019.
MAST services remain available, as usual, thanks to the remote efforts of STScI personnel.
The WOW team have released science-ready FITS files associated with the 27th, 29th, and the 30th HST anniversary images.