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Planet-Hunter Scott Gaudi Receives Five-Year, $774,527 NSF CAREER Award
The highly-coveted NSF CAREER award will allow astronomy associate professor Scott Gaudi to take his scientific investigations to the next level, supporting his new project, The Demographics of…
Undergraduate Investigates the Mysterious Cluster Omega Centauri
Well known for being the brightest and largest globular cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy, Omega Centauri is also considered one of the strangest.
Although Omega Centauri’s peculiarities have…
A Spectrograph - or Three - of One's Own
In addition to partnering on Large Binocular Telescope and the 2.4-meter telescope at MDM observatory in Arizona, the Imaging Sciences Lab has developed a number of important astronomical…
Can Studying Black Holes Help Treat Cancer Patients?
While the office of Astronomy Professor Anil Pradhan appears to be like any other office, there is something extremely unique happening within. Amongst the countless hardcopies of published…
MDM Observatory: Where Small Size Doesn't Mean Small Science
Astronomy is considered the most ancient of all sciences, and many believe that the field has recently undergone a “golden age” where our understanding of the Universe is now increasing by the…
Coffee Makes the Collaboration Go Further
At 10:25 am on the fourth floor of McPherson at The Ohio State University, the last few collared shirts—both Hawaiian and polo—struggle to hold their bikes or laptops in one hand, while fumbling…
Undergraduate Discovers Exoplanet Using Innovative Technique
Undergraduate astronomy majors at Ohio State have the opportunity to collect data at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, work on the latest instruments that will be used to obtain data from…
Active Galaxies and Their Bizarre Centers Help to Measure Black Hole Masses
Ever since the revelation that the majority of galaxies in the universe host a supermassive black hole at their centers, astronomers have been working to measure the masses of these black holes in…
KELT: A Little Telescope with a Tall Order
While the search for exoplanets often demands some of the world’s largest, most expensive telescopes, Ohio State graduate student Thomas Beatty is using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope,…