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May 10, 2019

Daily Post: The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined

About seven times more high-energy light is radiating from the sun than scientists anticipated, and it’s behaving rather strangely, according to new findings from a research team including Ohio…

May 8, 2019

Dan Pappalardo wins a Distinguished Staff Award

Dan Pappalardo, Senior Design Engineer in the Astronomy Department's Imaging Sciences Laboratory, has been named one of twelve recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Staff Award, Ohio State’s highest…

May 7, 2019

Congratulations to our Spring 2019 Graduating Undergraduates

We would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to our newly minted graduates with their undergraduate degree in Astronomy. Grace Calhoun Dominic Flournoy Suren Gourapura Zhiyuan Guo Matthew Kusz…

May 3, 2019

Daily Post: WHAT'S ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON?

From tidal locking to lunar water to polar craters, assistant professor of astronomy and planetarium director Wayne Schlingman explains what we do and don’t know about the far side of the moon.…