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Annika Peter and Chris Hirata Accepted Faculty Positions at OSU/CCAPP
Annika Peter and Chris Hirata have accepted OSU faculty offers in Physics with joint appointments in Astronomy. Their affiliations started in Fall 2012, though their arrivals will not be until about…
A Star's Signal of Impending Doom
A binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought OSU astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.
Ice Cream Social with Jill Tarter
While in Columbus for CCAPP's 6th Annual Biard Lectureship in Cosmology and Astrophysics, Jill Tarter from SETI met with local middle school age kids for an ice cream social and scientific…
Rott Awarded Antarctica Service Medal
2012
C. Rott, a CCAPP Senior Fellow, was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal from the National Science Foundation.
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NASA's Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas, Smita Mathur Quoted (Prof of Astronomy, CCAPP/OSU)
Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The…
CCAPP Faculty Answer Astronomy Questions at the 5th Annual GRASP Summer Camp
The annual GRASP (Girls Reaching to Achieve in Sports and Physics) Summer Camp, hosted by the Ohio State University Department of Physics Undergraduate Studies Office in coordination with physics…
2011 AAAS Fellows Announced
Arts and Sciences Faculty Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Seven Arts and Sciences faculty members join a distinguished group of colleagues…
Astrophysicists Shine Bright with Award - The 2011 Rossi Prize
The American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division has awarded a prestigious prize to eight Ohio State scientists. All are part of the research team for the Large Area Telescope…
Ohio State Researchers Use Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to Explain How Universe Works
Researchers at Ohio State are using the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to locate gamma ray bursts, the most energetic objects in the universe. Learn how their observations are being used to help…