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The Measure of Nothing
At the largest scales the universe looks like an enormous spider web, with long rope-like filaments, dense clumps of galaxies, and vast empty regions called voids. Ohio State CCAPP astrophysicist…
Cosmology for the People
The universe is really, really big, so simulations of the universe must also be really, really big. The latest, run by a team including Ohio State CCAPP astrophysicist Paul Sutter, followed the…
The Weight of Nothingness
The existence of voids, almost entirely empty regions of the cosmic web, has been confirmed by several spectroscopic surveys in the past years. But so far, nobody knew how empty voids really are…
ASAS-SN Discovers its 50th Nearby Supernova
One of the major goals of the ASAS-SN project is to produce a complete census of bright, nearby supernovae. In the last few months, using four 14-cm diameter telescopes in Hawaii and two such…
CCAPP Faculty, David Weinberg Quoted in ScienceDaily
Something is Amiss in the Universe: Cosmic Accounting Reveals Missing Light Crisis
Something is amiss in the Universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the…
New Faculty Members in OSU/CCAPP 2014
Adam Leroy and Laura Lopez have separately accepted OSU faculty offers in Astronomy. They will each be members of CCAPP. Adam starts in January 2015 and Laura in Autumn 2015. Adam's research is on…
DES looks at massive galaxy clusters - and finds filaments
With data from the new DECam imager, the Dark Energy Survey provides additional clues that galaxy clusters are not isolated objects on the sky but are connected with the cosmic web via filaments.…
Keeping things awesome on the Dark Energy Survey
Scientists stay inspired in their sometimes tedious task of inspecting photographs taken in the Dark Energy Survey's ambitious cataloging of one-eighth of the sky. Physicists working on the Dark…
DECam the "focus" of Physics Today cover
Every night, on a mountain top high in the Chilean Andes, a new instrument images a portion of the southern sky collecting light emitted by distant galaxies billions of years ago. A team of…