Jordan Hall observatory facilitates student research, discovery

Ava Warford | Monday, November 20, 2023

The Jordan Hall of Science houses an observatory that enables Notre Dame students to view celestial bodies, including undiscovered planets. McKenna Leichty, a physics major, accidentally uncovered the existence of a planet in the constellation Auriga while using the observatory’s Sarah L. Krizmanich Telescope, nicknamed the “Kriz.” She made the discovery while gathering data on