NEID Exoplanet Instrument Sees First Light
The new NEID instrument, now installed at the 3.5-meter WIYN Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Southern Arizona, USA, has made its first observations. The NSF-NASA-funded instrument is designed to measure the motion of nearby stars with extreme precision — roughly three times better than the previous generation of state-of-the-art instruments — allowing us to detect, determine the mass of, and characterize exoplanets as small as Earth.
Credit:NASA JPL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/NEID
About the Video
Id: | JPL_20200108 |
Release date: | Jan. 8, 2020, 3 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2004 |
Duration: | 02 m 04 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |
About the Object
Name: | NEID, WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope |
Category: | Kitt Peak National Observatory |