Enduring Quests and Daring Visions

Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs chartered by then-Director of NASA 's Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz , and released in late 2013. ^[1] It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions. ^[1] Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exoplanets , ^[2] to go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics , and looking back farther in time. ^[2] The panel that produced the vision included many notable American astrophysicists, including: Chryssa Kouveliotou , Eric Agol , Natalie Batalha , Misty Bentz , Alan Dressler , Scott Gaudi , Olivier Guyon , Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano , Feryal Ozel , Aki Roberge , Amber Straughn , and Joan Centrella .

Examples of discussed missions include: ^[3]

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^ ^a ^b "NASA Lays Out Long-term Vision for Astrophysics - Moonandback" . moonandback.com . 2013-12-22. Archived from the original on 2019-06-18 . Retrieved 2014-01-18 .
^ ^a ^b "Astrophysics Roadmap" (PDF) . nasa.gov . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05 . Retrieved 2017-07-12 .
^ Hall, Shannon (17 January 2014). "Enduring Quests and Daring Visions: NASA Lays Out a Roadmap for Astrophysics - Universe Today" . universetoday.com .