NASA’s Newest Planet Tracker Finds a Sky-high Perch

A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced “NOO-id”; sounds like “fluid”) will help scientists measure the masses of planets outside our solar system – exoplanets – by observing the gravitational pull they exert on their parent stars.

Photo caption:  The dome housing the WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak, the new home for a planet-hunting instrument called NEID. Image credit: NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/KPNO/NSF/AURA

NASA stories at https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1618/nasas-newest-planet-tracker-finds-a-sky-high-perch/ and https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7571