Instrument Team Selected to Build Next-Gen Planet Hunter

Instrument Team Selected to Build Next-Gen Planet Hunter Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2016 - NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting-edge instrument that will detect planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, by measuring the miniscule "wobbling" of stars. The instrument will be the centerpiece of a new partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) called the NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research program, or NN-EXPLORE. The instrument, named NEID ... more

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