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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.”
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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, bringing the number of such known planets into double digits. A circumbinary planet orbits two stars, and like the fictional planet “Tatooine” from Star Wars, this planet has two suns in…
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New Eye in the Sky
A new telescope will let SDSU astronomers see farther into the universe than ever before—from the comfort of their own labs. By Michael Price, video by Jeneene Chatowsky You couldn’t ask for a much better spot for gazing into the heavens than the Laguna Mountains in eastern San Diego County. At 6,100 feet above sea…
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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 Fifteen years ago, Robert Quimby, SDSU astronomy professor and director of the Mount Laguna Observatory, was among the first people on earth to realize something staggering about the universe: Its gradual…
