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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…
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…
Scientific Mysteries that Still Haven't Been Solved
Humans have made a staggering amount of scientific and technological progress over the past century, but from the reason we sleep at night to the origins of the universe, several fundamental…
Arts and Sciences iTunes U courses are "Off the Charts"
Apple's "Off the Charts 2017" list of most popular courses on iTunes U includes six courses from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences. Additional universities…
SciDome Planetarium Wins Collaboration of the Year
For millennia the stars have fascinated, confounded and inspired poets, painters, scholars and dreamers. So, when The Ohio State University at Newark and The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art…
Astrophysicist Christopher Hirata receives an "Oscar of science"
Astronomy and physics professor Christopher Hirata is the first faculty member from Ohio State to receive a New Horizons in Physics Prize, an award given alongside the annual Breakthrough Prizes,…