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Todd Thompson named 2018 Simons Fellow
The Simons Foundation has named Todd Thompson, professor of the Department of Astronomy, as a 2018 Simons Fellow in theoretical physics. Thompson is one of only 52 fellows, and one of only 12 in…
How Scientifically Accurate is "A Wrinkle in Time?"
Turns out the space travel depicted in the 1962 novel and new film “A Wrinkle In Time” isn’t all that far fetched. Paul Sutter, community outreach coordinator at the Center for Cosmology and Astro…
The Sun Is Spitting Out Strange Patterns of Gamma Rays--and No One Knows Why
Scientists don't fully understand the inner workings of our solar system’s most important star, but an unexpected finding from researchers in the Department of Physics is shedding some new light…
Distinguished Scholar Award: Krzysztof Stanek
The Distinguished Scholar Award annually recognizes six faculty members for their exceptional scholarly accomplishments and substantial compilation of research. In the past week, one ASC faculty…
Behold the Mighty Quasar: The Science Behind These Galactic Lighthouses
Supernovas pale in comparison to quasars, which are astonishingly massive radiation powerhouses in distant space capable of emitting thousands of times the energy output of our galaxy, explains…
Ohio State astrophysicists involved in stellar discovery
In January, data from the Dark Energy Survey — which utilizes an 8,000-pound camera mounted on an equally powerful telescope in the Andes Mountains to see deep into space — revealed 11 previously…
New Stellar Streams Found Orbiting the Milky Way
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate and so is our knowledge of it, thanks to large-scale cosmic surveys like the Dark Energy Survey, which the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle…
What in the World Is Metallic Hydrogen?
Beneath the cloud tops of Jupiter exist conditions so bizarre that scientists thought they might only be found in exotic environments like white dwarfs and neutron stars, says Paul Sutter of the…
The case of the disappearing neutrinos
Neutrinos are popularly thought to penetrate everything owing to their extremely weak interactions with matter. A recent analysis by the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole…