Interactive companion website to the traveling Alien Earths exhibit, which was developed by the Space Science Institute, in Boulder, Colorado, and sponsored in part by NASA's Navigator Program. The exhibit presents research and discoveries to students and the general public about the search for planets around distant stars and for life beyond Earth.
This newsletter is a forum for scientists, engineers, and students who share an interest in long baseline stellar interferometry. Here you will find links to projects devoted to stellar interferometry, news items, and resources for further research.
This site is updated each Friday with a new star and includes lore, physical nature and other interesting properties. The site is also a gateway to a family of related pages, such as "Stars of the Week" and "The Nature of Stars," all maintained by Jim Kaler of the Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois.
The MIT Space Systems Laboratory is developing the SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites) testbed to validate formation flight technologies that may be critical to Terrestrial Planet Finder and other NASA missions. This experiment will deploy and fly three miniature spacecraft inside the International Space Station.
This Web site contains Information about DARWIN, a proposed European Agency Mission similar to Terrestrial Planet Finder. DARWIN would fly multiple telescopes to form an infrared interferometer in space that could detect terrestial planets in orbit around other stars than our Sun and search for markers of biological activity.