Who is sponsoring the Night Sky Network?
The Night Sky Network is sponsored and supported by JPL’s PlanetQuest public engagement program. PlanetQuest is a part of JPL’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, which encompasses several of NASA’s extra-solar planet-finding missions, including the Keck Interferometer, the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI), and the Michelson Science Center. The NASA Education Forum on the Structure and Evolution of the Universe (SEU), based at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is a national center for teaching and learning about NASA’s SEU theme. The Origins Education Forum, based at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, is an association of the education and public outreach programs of the NASA missions seeking to understand and characterize the origins of the universe, planets, and life. NASA’s Kepler Discovery Mission, NASA Grant NAG 2-6066 to SETI Institute. http://www.kepler.nasa.gov/ NAS
