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Galactic explosion offers astrophysicists new insight into the cosmos
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova…
President's Buckeye Accelerator awards
Caitlin O’Brien and her team won one of the 6 President's Buckeye Accelerator awards last night. 11 ventures made their final pitch in the Ohio Union last night brought to us by the Keenan Center…
Webb telescope sees once-invisible structures inside spiral galaxies
Researchers participating in the PHANGS collaboration, or Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies, are using the telescope's infrared capabilities to study 19 spiral galaxies. “…
Keith McBride awarded the University of Chicago’s Grainger Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to postdoc and former OSU grad student Keith McBride who has been awarded the University of Chicago’s Grainger Postdoctoral Fellowship, one of the premier physics…
Astronomers Discover Clues about Stellar 'Glitching'
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky.
Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an…
Congratulations to 2022-23 Presidential Fellows!
Congratulations to Heyang Long, Rachel Patton, and Carton Zeng for being selected as Presidential Fellows this year!
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the…
Astronomers Create New Technique to Assist in Search for Dark Matter
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter – mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only been discerned by the effect they have on the natural world.
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Paul Martini Elected to be an American Physical Society Fellow
Congratulations to our very own Paul Martini for being elected to be a 2022 American Physical Society Fellow. Quoting from the announcement, “The APS Fellowship Program recognizes…
Former CCAPP Fellow Steven Prohira Wins 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
For his work "challenging conventional theories and engineering new tools to detect ultra-high energy sub-atomic particles that could hold clues to long held mysteries of our universe", former…