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 […]
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SDSU Astronomy Professor Allen Shafter publishes definitive text on extragalactic novae
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 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
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
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
Kepler-1647 b is important because it is the tip of the iceberg of a theoretically predicted population of large, long-period circumbinary planets.
