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ASAS-SN15lh Artists Conception
January 21, 2020

Kris Stanek & Chris Kochanek Awarded the 2020 AAS Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize

Krzysztof Stanek, professor of astronomy and Ohio State Distinguished Scholar, and Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy and Ohio Eminent Scholar, and have jointly received the American…

Image of John Beacom, Distinguished Professor and Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy
January 17, 2020

Physics and astronomy professor receives National Postdoctoral Association 2020 Mentor Award

John Beacom, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has received the National Postdoctoral Association’s 2020 Garnett-Powers Association Inc…

Photo of the Milky Way galaxy surrounded by a halo of dust, dark matter and gas
January 17, 2020

What's a halo made of? Scientists have new insights on the galactic kind

What's a halo made of? Scientists have new insights on the galactic kind Study finds new elements, hotter temperatures in the Milky Way

The halo that surrounds our Milky Way galaxy is hotter and…

Prof. Chris Kochanek (photo by Kevin Grady, Radcliffe Institute)
January 10, 2020

Chris Kochanek Awarded the 2020 AAS Dannie Heineman Prize

Christopher Kochanek, professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Astronomy, has won the 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, awarded jointly by the American Institute of…

Photo of Professor Scott Guadi holding the book that inspired his interest in astronomy.
December 17, 2019

A diversity of worlds: Exoplanet hunter keeps his eyes on the sky

"I’ve always been a geek and a nerd,” says astronomy professor Scott Gaudi, recalling a time when his second grade teacher assigned his class to memorize the planets in order of distance from the…

Artist's rendering of "The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory"
December 13, 2019

A mission to find the next Earth: Astronomers present a concept for the next NASA flagship mission

SAN FRANCISCO -- Astronomers are making the case for a new mission to search for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.

The mission, nicknamed "HabEx" for "The Habitable Exoplanet…

Image of Astronomy Professors Sultana Nahar (left) and Anil Pradhan (right)
December 11, 2019

Two astronomy faculty launch programs around the world to uplift STEM professionals

In 2008, Sultana Nahar, research professor in the Department of Astronomy, traveled to Egypt to give a keynote speech on atomic processes. There, she met another female professor from the…

OSU Scientists discover a new class of blackholes
October 31, 2019

OSU Scientists may just have discovered a new class of black holes

Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of the universe – so important that scientists have been trying to build a census of all the black holes in the Milky Way galaxy…

Observations of M33 using DESI. Shows a spectrum below the image of the sky.
October 28, 2019

5,000 "Eyes" Try to Solve the Mystery of Dark Energy

Astronomers test fiber-optic experiment that attempts to understand why the universe's expansion is accelerating
For the last 20 years, astrophysicists have tried to understand dark energy,…