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
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 […]
New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns
a team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University used the Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647 b.
Astronomers Discover Two Habitable Zone “Super Earths”
A team of astronomers announced the discovery of a five-planet system with two super-Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zone.”
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, […]