Steven Vogt -- Featured CENIC Star Performer

Steven Vogt UCO Lick
Last month, planet hunter Steven Vogt of UC Santa Cruz and UCO Lick and other researchers from around the US, Australia, and the United Kingdom published several exoplanet-related papers relying on data from both the Keck facility atop Mauna Kea and the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales, one of which announced the discovery of three or more planets around a Sun-like star named 61 Virginus. The team also discovered a "super-Jupiter" orbiting another Sun-like star 23 Librae, and yet another super-Earth (possibly with company in the form of two larger planets) around HD 1461 in the constellation of Cetus. As the search for exoplanets begins refining its techniques to discover smaller and smaller planets orbiting near stars like our own, the search for life in the universe gears up to the next level, and it will be made possible by researchers like Vogt and his colleagues and enabled by advanced networks.