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The 2019 members of the Polaris Mentoring Program

OSU Physics Department recognizes awardees for Exceptional Mentoring

This year, the OSU Physics Department launched an award for Exceptional Mentoring to recognize students and post-doctorates who have gone above and beyond in mentoring students in the physics…

Annika Peter, Ami Choi, Marcela Hernandez

Ami Choi selected for Postdoctoral Service Award

CCAPP Fellow Ami Choi was surprised today in the Cosmology Lunch group meeting by Marcela Hernandez, Administrative Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, who came to announce that Ami…

Ohio State illustration by Lauren Fanfer

Exploring the diet of blackholes

Tharindu Jayasinghe, a doctoral astronomy student, and Todd Thompson, interim chair and professor of astronomy, join Cincinnati Public Radio to discuss how their recent discovery of a black hole…

Largest Blackhole in the Universe

Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell: The Largest Black Hole in the Universe - Size Comparison

In its video comparing the sizes of black holes, the popular science YouTube channel “Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell” featured the recently discovered black hole “The Unicorn,” detected by a team of…

Payne-Gaposchkin telescope at the Las Cumbres Observatory site in South Africa

All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), an Ohio State-led automated telescope network that observes the entire sky every night, recently received a combined $3 million in funding,…

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Pogge Named 2021 ASC Distinguished Professor

The College of Arts and Sciences is thrilled to announce its 2021 Distinguished Professor Awards. This award serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service and…

Cerro Tololo, Blanco Telescope dome — one of the telescopes used in the Dark Energy Survey — and star trails in Chile (Reidar Hahn, Fermilab)

Ohio State plays crucial role in new Dark Energy Survey results

Ohio State’s Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP) is currently home to three postdoctoral fellows who were involved heavily in the DES project — Ami Choi, …

Survey of Stellar Nurseries

An unprecedented survey of the ‘nurseries’ where stars are born

Astronomers have taken a big step forward in understanding the dark and violent places where stars are born.

“Every star in the sky, including our own sun, was born in one of these stellar…

Artist Impression of the Central Buldge of the Milky Way Galaxy

New evidence of how and when the Milky Way came together

By calculating the age of stars in our interstellar backyard, CCAPP astronomers Fiorenzo Vincenzo and Mathieu Vrard have provided the best evidence to date of the…