Bengaluru-born astronomer to lead NASA’s $20-million interstellar dust mission

Bengaluru-born astronomer Dr Ramya Anche has been named principal investigator for NASA's $20-million PUFFINS satellite mission. She's an assistant research professor at University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. PUFFINS will use a 10-inch telescope and a technique called "ultraviolet spectropolarimetry", which hasn't been deployed in space for nearly 30 years, to study interstellar dust grains.