SDSU Astronomers discover two new planets around double star systems
SDSU Astronomers, working with an international team of co-investigators, have just announced the discovery of the first circumbinary planet identified in data from NASA’s new […]
SDSU Astronomers, working with an international team of co-investigators, have just announced the discovery of the first circumbinary planet identified in data from NASA’s new […]
Professor of Astronomy Allen Shafter is a world’s expert on a class of eruptive variable stars called “novae”, or “new stars”. The nature of these […]
The Department congratulates Yasmin Afshar, Kiley Mayford, Kelcey Davis, Kara Whitaker, and Jose Ruiz Casias on their recently-rewarded Cal-Bridge scholarships to support them as they […]
SDSU Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data […]
In January 2019, SDSU Astronomy professor Allen Shafter and former SDSU postdoc Martin Henze were part of a research team announcing the discovery that […]
In September 2018, SDSU astronomy graduate student Quentin Socia published a new work refuting the previously published prediction of the merger of two stars. Stellar […]
This year’s Doc Morris & John D. Schopp Public Lecture will be given by Dr. Konstantin Batygin, a Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech, and […]
WSTEM is a recognized student organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage women in STEM and provide a safe and supportive space. The goals […]
On June 7, 2017, Professor Doug Leonard delivered an invited plenary talk on the explosion geometry of core-collapse supernovae at the 230th meeting of the […]