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ASAS-SN Discovers its First Supernova
Even in the present day, only human eyes fully survey the sky for the transient, variable and violent events that are crucial probes of the nature and physics of our Universe. The "All-Sky Automated…
CCAPP Director John Beacom Featured in Article
Scientists speak a different language to present issues, argue points and convey information. B efore many of these equations make it into a research journal or textbook, they are written in…
Coffee Drives CCAPP
Since its beginnings, CCAPP scientists have been fueled by tens of thousands of espresso shots, brewed with Luck Bros' Coffee. Locally owned and independently operated, Luck Bros' has recently…
New Dark Energy Survey Photo Blog
April 2013
What would it be like to peer billions of years into the past, viewing hundreds of millions of galaxies, some billions of light years away? What would it feel like to be part of…
Researchers celebrate 25 years of using bigger, faster servers to solve mysteries of the universe
Chris Orban, an Ohio State University astrophysicist, has used the supercomputer to model theories on how dark matter particles can help form galaxies in an expanding universe. Read Article
Physicist's NSF CAREER Award Assists Search for "Ghost" Particles
Amy Connolly's recent five-year, $650,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help support her search for high-energy neutrinos, a type of elementary particle, traveling at…
Spectroscopy in 60 sec (by Honscheid and Huff)
Spectroscopy is a technique that astronomers use to measure and analyze the hundreds of colors contained in the light emitted by stars, galaxies and other celestial objects.
Ordinary…
A New Phase of CCAPP
CCAPP, its leadership, and its administration have entered a new phase.
From 2006-2011, CCAPP was supported primarily by Targeted Investment in Excellence (TIE) funds won in a university…
An element that's rare on Earth is found far, far away
Tellurium detected for the first time in ancient stars.
Jennifer Johnson, an associate professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, says tellurium has been a "tough" element to detect,…