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Creating Art that's Out of this World
Last month, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable Earth-size planets. While much remains unknown about these exoplanets, artists have come…
It All Goes Back to The Big Bang
Chris Orban, theoretical physicist at Ohio State’s Marion campus, studies laboratory and astrophysical plasmas in cosmological simulations. He leads the 2016 Battelle Engineering,…
Elemental Cosmic Origins
Astronomy Professor Jennifer Johnson has re-created a periodic table color-coded with the cosmic origins of all the elements. The table draws on research from astronomers and…
Astronomers view entire night sky thanks to $2.4 million grant
Humans have always marveled at the night sky. Yet, it has been impossible to monitor and record the entire sky nightly to seek transient, variable, sometimes violent events marking the evolution…
Humans Really Are Made of Stardust
"For decades, science popularizers have said humans are made of stardust, and now, a new survey of 150,000 stars shows just how true the old cliché is: Humans and their galaxy have about 97…
Ohio State-Newark professor helps interpret data from NASA satellite
"Michael Stamatikos is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio State University-Newark. He also is part of a team of scientists working on interpreting data from NASA's Swift…
A New Look at How Stars are Born
CCAPP faculty Adam Leroy and his students will get the best look yet at how stars are born in galaxies' "stellar nurseries," thanks to a new, five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early…
Ohio State Newark Professor Works on #1 Ranked NASA Satellite Mission
A satellite mission that Michael Stamatikos, physics and astronomy assistant professor on Ohio State's Newark campus, supports was recently ranked number one by NASA in science output among…
Physics PhD Graduate, Terri Brandt, Named Deputy Chief Scientist For The Physics Of The Cosmos (PCOS) Program Office At NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Terri Brandt who was advised by Prof. Jim Beatty and graduated from OSU with her PhD in 2009, has recently been appointed as the new Deputy Chief Scientist for the PCOS Program Office at NASA…