When you first hear the words “Planetary Defense” you might think of a sci-fi movie with spaceships ready to defend Earth from aliens, and maybe some Earthlings in spacesuits holding laser guns. This is not the case. Planetary Defense is slightly more down to Earth, so to speak. It does involve defending Earth, but it…
Mountain View and Marseille, June 11, 2020. Citizen science pioneers recently made two contributions to a better knowledge of outer space. Backyard astronomers of the SETI Institute and Unistellar network conducted in April citizen science observations, and their discoveries will improve our understanding of asteroids and exoplanets. Thanks to their work, we know precisely the…
Marseille and Mountain View, January 7, 2020. Ten minutes for a time-validated asteroid occultation of NASA’s importance: this is what Unistellar recently achieved in Irvine, California, by being one of the first-time observers of a Leucus occultation. Leucus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered in 1997 by the Beijing Xinglong Observatory. Around April 2028, NASA’s…
On average, Mercury can be seen transiting (passing across the face of) our Sun only 13 times every century. On November 11, half of the planet from the eastern part of Africa to the west side of the North American continent could see one of these rare events with the right equipment. Despite the fact…
UPDATE October 16 Dr. Franck Marchis, Unistellar’s Chief Scientific Officer, recently detailed in his blog the first findings derived from this unique citizen science mission: “From the Oman data, we derived a projected size of 54.8 km for the asteroid, which agrees with the size of Orus reported elsewhere. More importantly, we now have an…
Marseille and San Francisco, June 27. Unistellar is proud to announce that the eVscope, its revolutionary and powerful new consumer telescope, has demonstrated the ability to detect transiting exoplanets. This will allow citizen astronomers who soon receive the first eVscopes to begin contributing—easily but decisively—to one of the most exciting scientific endeavors in astronomy today:…
March 7, 2019, Mountain View, CA — The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific institution located in Mountain View, CA and the French company Unistellar, located in Marseille, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will establish and enhance joint research, outreach and education activities aimed at developing the citizen science network on Unistellar telescopes.…
San Francisco and Marseille, Feb. 27. Unistellar and its revolutionary consumer telescope are bringing the wonders of outer space to SXSW, the world’s largest gathering of creative professionals. As the only space-related project selected for the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards, Unistellar is committed to show how everyone can contribute to a better understanding of our…
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