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Some extremely happy news for our graduate students: Both Sanskriti Das and Tharindu Jayasinghe have won Presidential Fellowships. For those not familiar, the Presidential Fellowship is "the most…
Ten Arts and Sciences faculty named 2020 AAAS Fellows
Of the 11 Ohio State scientists elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, 10 are from the…
The temperature has increased about 10-fold over the last 10 billion years
We are delighted to announce that Josh Carroll will be the new ASCTech Senior Systems Manager for Astronomy! Josh comes to us from Math and Statistics where he led the ASCTech support team. He…
An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets – planets that float in space without orbiting a sun – than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.
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This summer, the OSU Department of Astronomy hosted 18 students for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). These students conducted astronomy research projects that were performed…
Supernovae are some of the brightest objects in the Universe, not only in light but also in neutrinos. In 1987, neutrino experiments got their first sampling of these supernova…
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. He…
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…