San Francisco State University has been a center for extrasolar planet research since the late 1980's.  The Planet Search Program  began in 1988 when SFSU Professor Geoff Marcy (now at U.C. Berkeley) and then-SFSU graduate student Paul Butler (Carnegie Inst.) began to search for the first planets outside our solar system using the telescopes at Lick Observatory. This project is currently being supported at U.C. Berkeley, The Carnegie Institution, U.C. Santa Cruz and San Francisco State. In the last 10 years, this and similar projects around the world have found over 200 extrasolar planets. For complete details, please see the project website at exoplanets.org