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October 31, 2019

Astronomy Colloquium - Karin Sandstrom

E0040 Scott Laboratory

2MASS Portrait of the Milky Way in Infrared Light

November 21, 2019

Astronomy Colloquium - Rachel Bezanson

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Illustration of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

October 21, 2019

Cosmologists Receive $2.5M Award for Survey to Study Dark Energy

Paul Martini, Professor of Astronomy, and Klaus Honscheid, Professor of Physics, have received a $2.5M award from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to support operation of the Dark Energy…

September 27, 2019

Scientists watch a black hole shredding a star

September 13, 2019

Dr. Radek Poleski Receives Polish Astronomical Society Young Scientist Award!

Ohio State University postdoctoral researcher Dr. Radek Poleski recently received the Polish Astronomical Society Young Scientist Award, which recognizes his extensive scientific contributions to…

August 23, 2019

Welcome New Astronomy Graduate Students 2019

The Department of Astronomy would like to welcome our incoming graduate students for the 2019-2020 school year. From left to right: Ness Mayker, Caprice Phillips, Kiersten Boley, Alison Duck, and…