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The Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Leading experts (including Nobel Prize Winner Rai Weiss) discuss the future and far future of gravitational wave astronomy from upgrading LIGO to larger ground based detectors such as The Einstein…
New 3D Milky Way Model Shows Details of Galactic Warp
(Originally posted http://news.osu.edu)
Model created using more than 2,300 stars — the most comprehensive of its kind to dateAn international research team has built the most in…
Stamatikos: The Legacy of Apollo 11
It has been 50 years since Neil Armstrong made “one giant leap for mankind”, but Apollo 11’s golden anniversary is bittersweet.
On the one hand, we celebrate a tremendous technological…
Not Your Average Success Story
(Originally posted http://osu.edu/features)
Anna's Roadmap to Success From COSI to NASA to the President's Prize, Anna Voelker's story is a journey that started with a struggle.When…
Supernova observation first of its kind using NASA satellite
Data from NASA and Ohio State offer new clues about why stars explode.
When NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite launched into space in April 2018, it did so with a specific goal:…
STEMcoding Black Hole Videos Go Viral!
(Originally posted http://u.osu.edu/stemcoding)
This spring we were all amazed to see the first images of gas falling into a supermassive black hole which were taken by a global radio…
Inside the Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment
(Originally posted http://abc.net.au)
An international science team including astronomy and physics professor John Beacom is using 11,000 giant ’lightbulbs,’ 50,000 tons of ultrapurewater…
2019 Price Prize Winners Announced
CCAPP is proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics!
Carolyn Raithel (Arizona) and Shany Danieli (Yale)
Carolyn’s research focuses on the…
Inside Super-Kamiokande 360-degree tour” Features Work of Professor John Beacom And His Collaborators
Welcome to my secret underground lair,’ he [Professor Mark Vagins] tells me as we get to his lab.” A new essay with spectacular photos shows the inside of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector…