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Congratulations to the Autumn Class of 2020

The Department of Astronomy would like to congratulate all of our seniors who have finished their degrees this semester. We wish you the absolute best in your future endeavors!

Undergraduate Research Scholarship Awards Autumn 2020

The Department of Astronomy would like to congratulate the following students who won awards in the Arts…

We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun

When the sun warms your face, it’s shooting more than just sunbeams at your skin. Neutrinos—ghostly particles with just a trace of mass—come along for the ride. Many trillions of them enter your…

Sanskriti Das and Tharindu Jayasinghe win Presidential Fellowships

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…

Paul Martini named AAAS Fellow

Of the 11 Ohio State scientists elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year, 10 are…

The universe is getting hot, hot, hot

The universe is getting hotter, a new study has found.

The study, published Oct. 13 in the Astrophysical Journal, probed the thermal history of the universe over the last 10…

Astronomy Welcomes Josh Carroll

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…

Rogue planets could outnumber the stars

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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2020 SURP finishes strong with first online symposium

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…