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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…
Scientists publish largest 3D map of the universe ever created
Data shows that about 6 billion years ago, the universe’s expansion acceleratedA new three-dimensional map, built after decades of collecting and analyzing data from the skies, shows how the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
10 MILLION-DEGREE GAS AROUND THE MILKY WAY
Work by Ohio State graduate student Sanskriti Das and Professor Smita Mathur featured in Sky & Telescope!
Woody & The Wake Up Call: Stadium-sized Asteroid
It is the size of a stadium and even though the naked eye can't see it there are ways for us to do so! Listen to Anna Voelker talk about this incredible event on the radio.
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The Milky Way has one very hot halo
The halo that surrounds our own Milky Way galaxy is much hotter than scientists once believed – and it may not be unique among galaxies.
The new findings were presented at a…