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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,…
KEPLER: A Jewel for Exoplanet Research, but also a Tool for Stellar Astronomy
Unlike his colleagues involved with the Kepler space telescope who are interested in studying exoplanets, Ohio State faculty member Professor Marc Pinsonneault is more anxious to study the stars…
Studying Exoplanets with DEMONEX
Early in his astronomy graduate education, Jason Eastman began an extensive project: observing hundreds of exoplanets using his telescope, the Dedicated Monitor of Exotransits telescope, or…