References & Sources

FAME to gaze at the stars

A spacecraft set for launch in 2004 promises to measure with unprecedented accuracy the distance, motion, position, and brightness of some 40 million of the closest stars to Earth.

References:

1999. "FAME" will size up the universe and search for distant planets. NASA press release. October 19.

1999. U.S. Naval observatory satellite to measure positions of 40 million stars. U.S. Naval Observatory press release. October 15.

Further Readings:

Cowen, R. 1999. Travelin’ light. Science News 156(Aug. 21):120.

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 20, November 13, 1999, p. 314. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.