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.
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Discovery of Gravitational Waves
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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Astronomers Discover Two Habitable Zone “Super Earths”
A team of astronomers, including two from San Diego State University, today announced the discovery of a five-planet system with two super-Earth-sized planets in the […]
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Tenth Transiting “Tatooine”
Astronomers at the 29th International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii will announce on August 14 the discovery of a new transiting “circumbinary” planet, […]
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Astronomer Wins “Surprise” Breakthrough Award
SDSU’s Robert Quimby received a share of a $3 million prize for his work on an investigation into the expansion of the universe. By Michael Price […]
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