Sponsors & Community
Open-source sponsor programs make independent astronomical research possible. When we have capacity, we give back to students working in the same field.
Current sponsors
Greptile
AI-powered code review on every pull request, enforcing review discipline across all repositories
CodeRabbit
AI pull request review and code quality analysis, layered with Greptile on critical-path repositories
Macroscope
AI code review and architecture analysis for deeper understanding of code changes across the organization
Snyk
Dependency vulnerability scanning and supply-chain security across all repositories
Atlassian
Jira and Confluence Standard for open source: project tracking, milestone management, and technical documentation
Sentry
Application error monitoring and performance tracking for hosted research tooling
DeepInfra
LLM inference hosting for agents, embeddings, and retrieval workloads across the research platform
1Password
Secrets management SDK and credential vaulting for research infrastructure automation
Compute time for astronomy students
When the cluster has capacity beyond our own research workload, we make GPU and compute time available to astronomy students working on coursework, thesis research, or projects staging for larger allocations on systems like university supercomputing centers.
The pattern we see most often: a student has a workload that needs to run reliably before they burn allocated hours on a larger cluster. A seven-node Proxmox environment is a lower-stakes place to debug, profile, and tune. They ship cleaner runs upstream; we get exposure to workloads outside our own niche and learn what else the infrastructure can handle. Mutually beneficial, not charitable.
This is informal. There's no application form, no SLA, no program page. Word-of-mouth only. If you're an astronomy student or researcher with a compute need and you've found your way here, the contact email is astronomylab@radioastronomy.io.
Become a Sponsor
Open-source sponsor programs have made independent research feasible. If your company's open-source sponsorship program aligns with computational astronomy, data science tooling, or research infrastructure, we'd welcome a conversation.
What sponsorship enables:
- Direct support of peer-reviewed astronomy research
- Public documentation and methodology that benefits your technical community
- Clear attribution on the organization README, website, and project READMEs
- Case studies on how your tooling supports research reproducibility
Future giving
Tax-deductible individual and institutional donations will launch following 501(c)(3) approval, targeted for 2026. Until then, support flows through GitHub Sponsors above.