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Caption: Image of the sky taken by one of the four CCD detectors of CoRoT staring at stars in the neighborhood of the NGC2264 young stellar cluster. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Oct. 24, 2008, issue of Science , published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Eric Michel and colleagues at CNRS in Meudon, France was titled "CoRoT Measures Solar-Like Oscillations and Granulation in Stars Hotter than the Sun."
Credit: Image © CNES/illustration David Ducros
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