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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Doug Leonard presents invited plenary lecture at the 230th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
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 […]
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.”