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People Around the World Invited to Help Generate Uwingu's Mars Map

The project aims to generate over $10M in grants to threatened space researchers and educators during budget cuts.

Uwingu salutes NASA and the Kepler mission team, which includes Uwingu Advisory Board astronomer Dr. Geoff Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley, for its discovery that one in five stars in our galaxy may have habitable planets.

Uwingu applauds the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU’s) movements forward about public planet naming, and offers an open alternative to the opaque, restrictive, multi-step approval process of names nominated there.

Space company Uwingu has signed a year-long agreement with Astronomy Magazine to jointly promote Uwingu’s extrasolar planet naming and other public participation projects at www.uwingu.com.

Uwingu announced today that it has awarded a grant to the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop. This grant was funded by proceeds from Uwingu’s exoplanet naming campaign for the public at www.uwingu.com.

Uwingu announced today that it has awarded a grant to the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) for the support of educational outreach efforts at IDA. This grant was funded by proceeds from Uwingu’s exoplanet naming efforts at www.uwingu.com.

Space company Uwingu announces the launch of the world’s first ‘Adopt-a-Planet’ campaign. This open-ended campaign gives anyone in the public—worldwide—the opportunity to adopt planets around other stars at www.uwingu.com.

Space company Uwingu announced the winner of its public engagement contest to solicit and vote on a popular name for the only known planet orbiting the nearest star to the Sun, Alpha Centauri.

Space company Uwingu’s ‘People’s Choice’ contest to solicit the public’s choice name for the nearest known planet around another star has been extended a week and will now end Monday April 22 at midnight US Eastern Daylight Time.