UW Astronomer Proposes New Deep-Space Telescope to Scan the Sky for Signs of Life
![An artist’s rendition of Kepler-69c, a planet approximately 70 percent larger than Earth orbiting a star approximately 2,700 light years from our solar system.NASA Ames, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech. UW Astronomer Proposes New Deep-Space Telescope to Scan the Sky for Signs of Life](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image13-07-2015-14.30.02.jpg)
Astronomers usually spend their time contemplating the heavens above. But one group of dedicated stargazers has challenged the community to look instead to the future, envisioning the tools for generating more celestial discoveries. On July 6, a team of astronomers proposed a new type of mission to crack some of the universe’s most intriguing mysteries […]