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Professor Chris Hirata wins the AAS Helen B. Warner Prize

The American Astronomical Society has announced that OSU Professor Chris Hirata has been awarded this year's Helen B. Warner Prize for observational or theoretical research by a young astronomer…

Could a Milky Way supernova be visible from Earth in the next 50 years?

 

Astronomers at The Ohio State University have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visible from Earth.…

Astronomers Pin Down Origins of “Mile Markers” for Expansion of Universe

In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers led by OSU graduate student Ben Shapee describe observations of recent supernova 2011fe that they captured with the Large Binocular…

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Sssh: Astronomers at Work

 

Astronomy graduate students Kate Grier and Calen Henderson are jazzed by what they learned this month at the intensive week-long Spitz Summer Institute, offered by the makers of the…

2012 CCAPP Price Prize Winners Announced

The Dr. Pliny A. and Margaret H. Price Prize of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) is supported by generous gifts from Steve Price and Jill Levy, and is named after Steve'…

Chris Hirata and Scott Gaudi

Gaudi and Hirata Named PECASE Winners

Scott Gaudi, Astronomy; and Christopher Hirata, Astronomy and Physics, are two of 96 researchers President Obama named this week as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for…

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The Odd Couple: Ohio State Astronomers' New Pair of Planets Breaks Rules

Planet-hunting requires infinite patience, a passion for discovery bordering on the obsessive-compulsive, really good math skills, sophisticated telescopes costing millions of dollars—and, of…

The old Spitz star ball in the OSU Planetarium

OSU Planetarium Getting a Major Facelift

 

The astronomy department has been providing planetarium shows to OSU students and the general public since 1968 in its 65-seat, 30-foot planetarium located on the 5th floor of Smith…

Evalyn Gates

"The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy" - Evalyn Gates - Science Sundays

Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 3:00pmOhio Union - US Bank Conference Theatre 

"The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy" is part of the ASC Science Sundays public lecture series.
Evalyn Gates (…