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Biard Lecture - Sizing Up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective
5th Annual R. Jack and Forest Lynn Biard Lectureship in Cosmology and AstrophysicsWednesday April 18, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Location: McPherson Lab - Room 1000 - 140 W 18th Ave, Columbus
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Venus Transit 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 5-11pm
The OSU Astronomy Department will be holding a public program to observe the Transit of Venus across the Sun on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, from 5:00-11:00pm on…
2011 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'…
In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt “Signal of Impending Doom”
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.
A study by…
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…