Last week, Frank Brenker and his colleagues Bart Vekemans, Laszlo Vincze, and Manfred Burghammer analyzed the first track to be extracted from the Stardust Interstellar Collector. We suspected that this is a particle that was ejected from an impact of a high-velocity particle (either an interplanetary dust particle or an […]
We have recently added a new feature to the Stardust@home website to help make our candidate selection process more transparent, called the Alpha List. The Alpha list is a list of focus movies that show the most promise in being a candidate stardust particle track. The alpha list movies are […]
Everyone is very excited about the progress this week in extracting the first particle tracks from the Stardust collector. The Planetary Society has written a story about this week’s big news. Please check it out here.
This morning Dave Frank and I extracted the first track from the Stardust interstellar collector. I1017,2. Pix below. For scale, the terminal particle is 200 microns below the surface. Hooray!! Andrew
This morning Dave Frank and I extracted the first keystone from the Stardust Interstellar Tray. We extracted it from tile 17. It is truly awe inspiring to work on the flight article. It’s not every day that one has the opportunity — and awesome responsibility — to work on something […]
This morning we made some needed changes to some of the inner workings of the site. You may have had some interruptions in dusting, sorry about that. We also added the blog feed to the home page, enjoy. Thanks,Stardust@home admins