UNISTELLAR, SETI INSTITUTE & THE PLANETARY SOCIETY COLLABORATE TO INSPIRE 1 MILLION GIRLS TO DISCOVER SPACE DURING WORLD SPACE WEEK SAN FRANCISCO – SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 – In celebration of World Space Week, hosted October 4-10 annually, the New Astronomy pioneers at Unistellar are collaborating with the SETI Institute and The Planetary Society for an…
« Plus de 200 amateurs se sont penchés sur le passage d’une lointaine planète devant son étoile. Des données précieuses permettront peut-être de débusquer d’autres membres de ce système planétaire. » Ciel & Espace, le magazine français de référence en matière d’espace, a mis en avant dans son numéro 579 la participation de membres de la communauté…
Unistellar is honored to announce the company’s inaugural team of global ambassadors. Each hand-selected by Unistellar’s leadership, these volunteers are tasked with expanding the reach of New Astronomy; supporting and encouraging Unistellar’s users; and serving as champions for Unistellar’s citizen science programs and community outreach campaigns. Ambassadors were selected based on active participation in Unistellar…
September 16, 2021, Mountain View, CA and Marseille, France – Thanks to a financial grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the SETI Institute and Unistellar are providing eVscope telescopes, training workshops for students and educators and network collaboration opportunities to 25 community colleges throughout the United States, as well as to Chabot Space…
In just a few weeks, NASA will launch the Lucy spacecraft which will be the first to visit the Trojan asteroids. Lucy will provide new insights into these primordial objects that formed the planets of our solar system, the origins of Earth, and perhaps even the formation of life. The Unistellar Network has already contributed…
This October, NASA is sending a spacecraft to study Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun. These asteroids, which likely predate the planets, may hold clues about the formation of the solar system four billion years ago. The spacecraft is named “Lucy” after the famous early hominid fossil discovered in Ethiopia. Scientists hope…
On August 25 at 8:37 PM Mountain Time (MST), a Trojan asteroid known as 2207 Antenor will occult (pass in front of) a star from our view here on Earth. It will be visible across the United States, from Phoenix, Arizona northward to Miles City, Montana, including Arizona’s famous Grand Canyon and Arches National…
What do you do when the exoplanet transit you’re observing falls out of sight halfway through? Unistellar citizen astronomer Bruno Guillet solved the quandary by reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. He and fellow Unistellar citizen astronomer Justus Randolph recently made a transatlantic observation of exoplanet candidate TOI 2031.01, gathering enough data for Unistellar and…
Get to know August’s Roundup of Exoplanets Join us this month to observe exoplanet candidates across the world! All of them are potential “Hot Jupiters,” a commonly found type of exoplanet. They have the properties of gas giants, but orbit very close to their stars, giving them extreme surface/atmosphere temperatures. They also orbit around…
A new comet was discovered by amateur astronomer Hideo Nishimura of Japan on July 21, who used his DSLR and a 200 mm telephoto lens for the impressive discovery. Now known as Comet C/2021 O1 Nishimura, it was also observed this week from Japan by Keiichi Fukui using a Unistellar eVscope (below). According to the…
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