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Dustin Nguyen Wins 1st Place at 36th Hayes Forum

OSU Physics and CCAPP graduate student Dustin Nguyen won 1st place in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences category at the 36th Hayes Forum on Friday, March 4th, 2022. Dustin presented his…

Prof. John Beacom's reception of the 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award

CCAPP Director John Beacom Receives 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award

Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor and CCAPP director John Beacom was one of three College of Arts and Sciences faculty to receive 2022 Distinguished Scholar Awards. Congratulations!

Amanda Smith's illustration of the Kepler-16 circumbinary planet system.

Astronomers identify real-life Tatooine using new method

Astronomers have used a new technique to confirm a real-life Tatooine, the fictional planet with two suns that was home to Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars.”

Scientists already knew that the…

Screenshot from the developed tutorial.

Project Mercury: Celebrating Black History Month

In celebration of Black History month, the STEMcoding Project led by Prof. Chris Orban teamed up with Jahmour Givans from the OSU Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) to develop…

Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. Image Credit: NASA/ESA/HEIC

Laura Lopez Awarded HEAD Early Career Prize

The High Energy Astrophysics Division (also known as HEAD) has announced that it is awarding its 2022 Early Career Prize to Ohio State University's Prof. Laura Lopez.

This prize honors…

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Michael Lisa Elected as a 2021 AAAS Fellow

In November of 2021, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council elected 564 Fellows of AAAS, honoring members whose efforts on the advancement of science distinguished…

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The International Effort to Create a 3D Map of the Universe

Though it’s only about 10% through its five-year mission, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has capped off the first seven months of its survey run by smashing through all previous…

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Adam Leroy Wins Humboldt Research Award

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded the Humboldt Research Award to Adam Leroy, an associate professor in the Department of Astronomy who uses multi-wavelength…

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Stringing Together a Black Hole Paradox

A PBS Space Time segment featuring Samir Mathur, a professor in the Department of Physics, examines how string theory could be the key to solving the paradoxical existence of black holes.