News
Breakfast of Science Champions- Follow Up Lunch Discussion
CCAPP hosted fifty Starling Middle school students for a followup event to The Breakfast of Science Champions, bringing them back to campus for a Planetarium showing and up close and personal…
'Monster Black Hole' Discovery Was Wrong — But That's How Science Progresses, Scientists Say"
Todd Thompson, Professor, Vice Chair, Astronomy, "'Monster Black Hole' Discovery Was Wrong — But That's How Science Progresses, Scientists Say," Space.com, Dec. 12
Three teams have analyzed…
Into the Void -- Sky & Telescope Magazine
The latest issue of Sky & Telescope (Feb 2015), author Marcus Woo walks readers through the science of . . . nothing. Featuring research of postdoc Paul Sutter and his work on cosmic voids.
The Physics behind the Movie "Interstellar"
CCAPP fellow, Mauricio Bustamante, was interviewed on the subject of the physics of time dilation, black holes, and wormholes behind the recent movie "Interstellar". The interview, in…
COSI Planetarium Grand Re-Opening
CCAPP Postdoc, Paul Sutter, along with other CCAPP researchers helped attendees of the planetarium grand re-opening event with a make-your-own clay cosmic web activity.
The new COSI…
Testing Gravity Using Cosmic Voids
Astrophysicists have long searched for ways to find cracks in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and thanks to OSU undergraduate Paul Zivick, his advisor Paul Sutter, and an international…
Breakfast of Science Champions
CCAPP along with departments of Astronomy and Physics, hosted Columbus middle school students for this year's Breakfast of Science Champions event. Students visited the newly renovated Astronomy…
ASASSN-14ae: A Tidal Disruption Event at 200 Mpc
ASAS-SN (All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae) paper "ASASSN-14ae: A Tidal Disruption Event at 200 Mpc" led by OSU astronomy graduate student Tom Holoien is subject to OSU press release: "Lucky…
Trillian Project Gets Support from Mozilla ScienceLab
Trillian is a new project that aims to be an all-sky, multi-wavelength computational engine for astronomy data. It was selected to be one of the research projects for the Mozilla ScienceLab's…