Adopt a star from a non-profit and support scientific research

A non-profit alternative: Many private companies offer to "sell" you a star name for $19.95, but here you can adopt a star that might host a planetary system for just $10! The Pale Blue Dot project is hosted by a non-profit organization (White Dwarf Research Corporation) and 100% of the proceeds are used to support scientific research on the stars that you actually adopt.

A search for habitable planets: In March 2009, NASA launched the Kepler satellite -- a mission designed to discover Earth-like planets around distant Sun-like stars. The satellite will monitor the brightness of more than 100,000 stars in the constellation Cygnus with a high quality digital camera for up to 6 years. Scientists will be looking for tiny dips in the amount of light received by the telescope -- the possible signature of a planet passing in front of the star. The Pale Blue Dot project supports the analysis that will allow astronomers to determine the physical size of the planet, through the research efforts of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC), a large international collaboration of scientists.

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