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July 31, 2020

150 Years of Ohio State: Research and Creative Expression Innovators

Two Ohio State Astronomers make the Office of Research's list of 150 years of innovation.

Congratulations to

Kris Stanek for his research on the explosive deaths of massive stars…

The Sun shown in ultra violet light
July 31, 2020

AN ELEMENTAL PROBLEM WITH THE SUN

For two decades, astronomers have argued over how much carbon, nitrogen and especially oxygen lie within our closest star — a dispute with implications for the entire universe.

 

A…

Projected orbit of the new satellite called Twinkle
July 27, 2020

Twinkle, Twinkle - Ohio State-Vanderbilt collaboration, 'Twinkle,' to find potentially habitable worlds

Astronomers are preparing to further study the atmospheres of planets discovered through NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission to identify the most promising exoplanets —…

Largest 3d map ever created of objects in our Universe
July 20, 2020

Scientists publish largest 3D map of the universe ever created

Data shows that about 6 billion years ago, the universe’s expansion accelerated

A new three-dimensional map, built after decades of collecting and analyzing data from the skies, shows how the…

Image of Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise
July 14, 2020

NEOWISE Comet

Looking for something to do to cure your COVID blues?

From July 12-28 you can see this incredible comet gracing our skies just after sunset in the Northwest horizon, right under the Big…

APS Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance
June 29, 2020

OSU Department of Physics Selected to Join the APS-IDEA Network

In June 2020, the Ohio State Department of Physics was selected as part of the first 2020 cohort for the APS Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Alliance (APS-IDEA) Network.  This international…

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June 18, 2020

Paul Martini named fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute

Paul Martini, professor in the Department of Astronomy and Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at…

Schematic of how to observe a galaxy halo
June 16, 2020

GALAXIES ARE EVEN BIGGER THAN YOU THINK

Galaxies are pretty big. The Milky Way's stellar disk, for example, spans some 100,000 light-years. But new observations show that galaxies' extent is actually much greater than that — more like…

Conception of the halo of gas around the Milky Way Galaxy
June 15, 2020

10 MILLION-DEGREE GAS AROUND THE MILKY WAY

Work by Ohio State graduate student Sanskriti Das and Professor Smita Mathur featured in Sky & Telescope!