Adopt a star

http://whitedwarf.org/palebluedot/text.html

All it is really is just a donation to a non-profit organisation (Pale Blue Dot) that supports a project to find out the precise size of the planets found by Kepler.

THERE'S A SUN SHADE!


It all really started out as an interest in the Kepler Mission closely and its hunt for planets outside our solar system (these type of planets being called extrasolar planets). Kepler was launched in March 2009 on top of a Boeing 7925-10L (Delta-II) launch vehicle.

I've got my eye on:

KIC 8490918
Mag.=14.339
Teff=5232
log g=3.584
[M/H]=-0.080



Here's a good, but rather science-y article on how variable stars have been historically discovered.