Gala is a Python package for Galactic and gravitational dynamics.
The documentation for Gala is hosted on Read the docs.
The easiest way to get Gala is to install with pip or uv.
Gala can be installed with pip (with uv or standalone):
pip install gala
You can also add gala as a dependency to your environment with:
uv add gala
See the installation instructions in the documentation for more information.
If you make use of this code, please cite the JOSS paper:
@article{gala,
doi = {10.21105/joss.00388},
url = {https://doi.org/10.21105%2Fjoss.00388},
year = 2017,
month = {oct},
publisher = {The Open Journal},
volume = {2},
number = {18},
author = {Adrian M. Price-Whelan},
title = {Gala: A Python package for galactic dynamics},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software}
}
Please also cite the Zenodo DOI
Copyright 2013-2025 Adrian Price-Whelan and contributors.
Gala is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see
the LICENSE file.
See the AUTHORS.rst file for a complete list of contributors to the project.