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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 mergers are important, explosive events, and yet very difficult to actually observe. Socia’s work tells us that astronomers must keep searching if they are to find candidate stars whose merger…
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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 American Astronomical Society in Austin, TX. Over 500 people (including astronomers, teachers, and journalists) attended the meeting. More information about the AAS and Professor Leonard’s presentation can be found at…
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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 extragalactic astronomy, with an emphasis on the flow of gas into and out of galaxies as they form and evolve. Kate received her doctorate from the University of California, Santa…
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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.
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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.”
