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Astronomy Professor Appointed Holder of The Thomas Jefferson Chair for Discovery and Space Exploration
In 2007, Ohio State received an anonymous gift of $20 million to support the exploration of outer space, which funds student fellowships and two faculty chairs named for men known for their…
Welcome New Planetarium Director Dr. Wayne Schlingman!
Wayne M. Schlingman, the new director of the Ohio State Planetarium, has a room with an enviable view with seats he will never have trouble filling. And he's ready to start taking people out of…
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…
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'…
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…
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…