Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch.
NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.
Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary disruption in the system.
Distinguished Service Medal
Jean Swank (662)
Bruce Woodgate (667)
Exceptional Achievement Medal
Mark Clampin (667)
Michael Ressler (665)
Exceptional Public Achievement Medal
Dale Fixsen (665)
Group Achievement Award
CSBF Antarctic Scientific Balloon Team (661)
SuperTIGER Balloon Team/John Mitchell (661)
Congratulations to Mike McElwain!
05.29.2013
Please congratulate Mike McElwain on being selected as the
winner of this year's Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship!
Mike was first selected last year, along with 2 other
scientists, to complete a phase-A study for his proposed
instrument development. NASA HQ evaluated the proposals this
Spring, and has selected Mike to receive funding for the
next 4 years to build PISCES, an integral field spectrograph
(IFS) to be deployed at the High Contrast Imaging Testbed
(HCIT) at JPL. This will lay the ground-work for an
eventual IFS in space to characterize exoplanetary
atmospheres.
Exoplanet Science Definition Teams
04.30.2013
NASA HQ has announced the selections for membership on the
two Exoplanet Science Definition Teams, to study Probe scale
(<1B$)
missions for consideration by the Astrophysics mid-Decadal
survey. Five folks from Goddard were selected!
The selections are: Coronagraph SDT:
Karl Stapelfeldt (667 - chair)
Mike McElwain (667) Occulter SDT:
Shawn Domegal-Goldman (690)
Marc Kuchner (667)
Aki Roberge (667)
The Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory studies the formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems using advanced telescopes and theoretical techniques. We develop new technology and ideas that help us understand our place in the universe. Research also contributes to the search for Earth-like planets and habitable environments around other stars. Key areas of research include exoplanet searches and theoretical modeling, stellar debris disks, young stellar objects, stellar astrophysics, and numerical modeling of planetary system evolution.
Astrophysical Research:
Extrasolar Planets, Debris Disks, Young Stellar Objects, Stellar Astrophysics, Theory,
Coronagraphic imagers, Ultraviolet detectors, Integral Field
Spectroscopy
As part of the EPOXI mission's objectives to characterize the Earth as a planet for comparison with planets around other stars, the spacecraft looked back at Earth collecting a series of images.
