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Sculptor Galaxy

Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form

By Rebecca McClain

If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere with binoculars and a good view of the night sky on a dark and clear summer night, you might just be able to spot the Sculptor galaxy. And…

Sultana Nahar

Sultana Nahar receives William Fowler Award and Featured on Voices of Excellence

Dr. Sultana Nahar, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy, has received the prestigious William Fowler Award for Distinguished Research in Physics from the American Physical Society.…

Ocean Cemetery in the Planetarium

MFA Students' Fulldome Film Selected for International Screening in Czech Republic

First-year MFA students Yeoleum Choi and Valeska Tan’s immersive full-dome film Ocean Cemetery was selected for screening at the 2025 Fulldome Festival Brno, held June 10–12, 2025 in the Czech…

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51 Pegasi b Fellowship at Ohio State - 2026 applications now open

By Jonathan Crass

The Heising-Simons Foundation is accepting applications for their 2026 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship program in Planetary Astronomy. The fellowship provides an opportunity for…

Wayfinders

Ohio State planetarium show explores the Pacific night sky with Polynesian navigators' techniques

It might be hard to see the stars from Columbus, but they'll be bright at the Arne Slettebak Planetarium at Ohio State University this summer. The university’s astronomy department has a new…

Congrats!

Promotion and Tenure Approvals 2025 - Astronomy

On May 21, 2025, many Ohio State faculty members had a reason to celebrate as the Board of Trustees approved promotion and tenure recommendations for the Buckeyes listed below. Each has excelled…

John Beacom

Professor John Beacom helps co-author National Academies report

Professor John Beacom has helped co-author National Academies report on “Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond” which presents a bold 40-year vision for particle physics.

Magnetars have magnetic fields that are a trillion times more powerful than those of ordinary stars.

Study reveals new source of the heavy elements

By Tatyana Woodall

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study. 

For decades,…

ASAS-SN15lh Artists Conception

ASAS-SN Position Applications Open

The Department of Astronomy within the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University seeks two Research Aides to work on the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN).  …