GOELTA, Calif. (KEYT) – A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while studying a dying star exhibiting extraordinary behavior.
“Much effort goes into designing, building, and operating astronomical facilities. While the scientific endeavor typically moves in small steps, it is enormously rewarding for everyone involved when we get to
experience something that has never been seen before being revealed,” explained Dr. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, Director of the Las Cumbres Observatory headquartered in Goleta. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years and the only thing with an impact close to [UCSB graduate student Joseph] Farah’s result that I’ve been able to be a part of was the discovery nine years ago of seven earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1. Farah’s result is phenomenal.”…