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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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  • Congratulations to SDSU Cal-Bridge Scholars

    Congratulations to SDSU Cal-Bridge Scholars

    • 23 September 2019
    • By Kate Rubin

    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 […]

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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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  • Founding of the new Women in STEM student club

    Founding of the new Women in STEM student club

    • 9 January 2018
    • By Kate Rubin

    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 […]

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  • Photo by Phil McCarten, © 2017 American Astronomical Society.

    Doug Leonard presents invited plenary lecture at the 230th meeting of the American Astronomical Society

    • 16 June 2017
    • By Kate Rubin

    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 […]

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  • Astronomy Department welcomes new faculty member, Kate Rubin

    Astronomy Department welcomes new faculty member, Kate Rubin

    • 23 January 2017
    • By Allen Shafter

    The Astronomy Department is pleased to welcome our latest faculty hire, professor Kate Rubin, who joined our Department this fall. Kate has an expertise in […]

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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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  • Discovery of Gravitational Waves

    Discovery of Gravitational Waves

    • 13 February 2016
    • By Department Chair

    The advanced LIGO experiment has just announced the Discovery of Gravitational Waves produced by the merging of two stellar mass black holes in a distant galaxy.

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