Receive your star certificate by email within 30 minutes!
For just $10, the Pale Blue Dot project allows you to adopt a star from a non-profit organization and support scientific research on the stars that you actually adopt! Since 2009, NASA's Kepler space telescope has been searching for Earth-like planets around more than 150,000 distant Sun-like stars in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. When you adopt one of these stars through the Pale Blue Dot project, 100% of your donation supports the analysis that will allow astronomers to determine the physical size of the planets that are discovered, through the research efforts of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC), a large international collaboration of scientists.
To adopt a star and support scientific research, follow the three steps below.
Make a donation: Click one of the buttons below to make
a $10 donation. You will receive an email from the Pale Blue Dot project within 15 minutes,
and 100% of your donation will support scientific research. You can optionally complete the
process in one step by also selecting a star number and filling in the "Designation" (for
example, Pat Smith, 1234567). For Google Checkout,
fill in the designation before clicking the button. For Paypal, enter the designation
after you login but before you complete the donation.
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Select a star: You can select any star that has not already been adopted.
If you want the brightest star available, you just need to know its
KIC number (on the adoption page, skip to step 3).
If you want two stars together or a star with a specific color,
browse the stars using the Google Sky plugin (click on the green
marker to see the star number). If you want the star to commemorate a special date,
select by number in the text catalog (for example, search for
"021411" under "Star #").
Adopt the star: Go to the adoption
page and enter: (1) the email address from your donation, (2) the name you want
on the certificate, and (3) the KIC number of the star you want. You will
receive an email with your certificate within 15 minutes. Your star adoption will be
recorded in the text catalog and added to the placemark in Google Sky.
If you adopt a star where a planet is found, you will be
featured on a special section of our website and we will let you know where you can
learn more about the discovery.
