Super-Earths may be our best bet for finding life beyond our solar system.
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Eli Dwek of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and Richard Arendt of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, say these echoes are powered by radiation from Cassiopeia A supernova shock wave that blew the star apart some 11,000 years ago.
Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Uses ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
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Keck Interferometer
Links two 10-meter (33-foot) telescopes, which form the world's most powerful optical telescope system.
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Kepler Mission
The Kepler Mission will search for Earth-like planets with the "transit" method.
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Palomar Observatory
A joint effort between JPL and the California Institute of Technology, the Palomar Observatory houses a collection of famous telescopes.
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Spitzer Space Telescope
Uses infrared technology to study celestial objects that are too cool, too dust-enshrouded or too far away to otherwise be seen.
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Ulysses
Orbits sun around the north and south poles.
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Voyager to the Outer Planets
Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is now approaching interstellar space.
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Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
This camera, designed and built at JPL, served as the main camera capturing pictures on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It still takes images of planets, stars and galaxies.
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Mission to Return JPL-Built Hubble Camera Underway
Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted on a mission whose goals include extracting and returning the JPL-built Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
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The Camera That Saved Hubble... Twice: JPL's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
The story and the people behind Hubble's imaging workhorse.
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Hubble Photographs a Planetary Nebula to Commemorate Decommissioning of Super Camera
The Hubble Space Telescope photographed a planetary nebula to commemorate the decommissioning of a super camera.
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The Camera That Saved Hubble
Two of the unsung heros of NASA's Hubble mission are a camera and the team from JPL that put it all together. |
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Spitzer's Warm Mission
After more than five years, Spitzer is completing its original assignment to study the universe in infrared and is now moving on to a new career. |
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Hubble’s Eye on the Universe
JPL's camera aboard Hubble has taken some of the space telescope's most memorable images. The camera will be removed and brought back to Earth during a Hubble servicing mission this month. |
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