Proposed astronomy missions selected for further study by NASA

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Artist concepts of a CU-Boulder starshade and orbiting space telescope that would zoom in on light from distant planets (left) and a Naval Observatory Proposal involving CU-Boulder to place a carpet-like radio telescope on the moon to probe the earli ...
Artist concepts of a CU-Boulder starshade and orbiting space telescope that would zoom in on light from distant planets, (left) and a Naval Observatory Proposal involving CU-Boulder to place a carpet-like radio telescope on the moon to probe the earliest structures in the universe. Credit: CU-Boulder, NAO

NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $1 million to lead the study of a space observatory to find Earth-like planets in distant solar systems and open the search for life outside our solar system.


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