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  • SDSU Astronomy Professor Allen Shafter publishes definitive text on extragalactic novae

    SDSU Astronomy Professor Allen Shafter publishes definitive text on extragalactic novae

    • 23 September 2019
    • By Kate Rubin

    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 […]

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  • SDSU Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System

    SDSU Astronomers Discover Third Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System

    • 16 April 2019
    • By Kate Rubin

    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 […]

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  • First Evidence Discovered of a Gigantic Remnant Around an Exploding Star

    First Evidence Discovered of a Gigantic Remnant Around an Exploding Star

    • 19 February 2019
    • By Kate Rubin

      In January 2019, SDSU Astronomy professor Allen Shafter and former SDSU postdoc Martin Henze were part of a research team announcing the discovery that […]

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  • Astronomy Graduate Student Quentin Socia Revises Important Astronomical Prediction

    Astronomy Graduate Student Quentin Socia Revises Important Astronomical Prediction

    • 13 September 2018
    • By Kate Rubin

    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 […]

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  • New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns

    New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns

    • 13 June 2016
    • By eric

    Kepler-1647 b is important because it is the tip of the iceberg of a theoretically predicted population of large, long-period circumbinary planets.

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