Articles tagged with 'astronomy' | The Ohio State University

Ohio State News (astronomy)

2023
September
26,
2023
| 12:00 PM America/New_York
Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets in our solar system.
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August
15,
2023
| 10:56 AM America/New_York
In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with themselves.
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July
27,
2023
| 09:01 AM America/New_York
As the next generation of giant, high-powered observatories begin to come online, a new study suggests that their instruments may offer scientists an unparalleled opportunity to discern what weather may be like on far-away exoplanets. ...
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July
17,
2023
| 14:00 PM America/New_York
Astronomers have found evidence that some stars boast unexpectedly strong surface magnetic fields, a discovery that challenges current models of how they evolve.
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June
12,
2023
| 11:07 AM America/New_York
An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new type of planet that orbits two stars – what is known as a circumbinary planet. 
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May
08,
2023
| 14:12 PM America/New_York
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy’s center.
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March
29,
2023
| 13:00 PM America/New_York
Much like how wind plays a key role in life on Earth by sweeping seeds, pollen and more from one place to another, galactic winds – high-powered streams of charged particles and gases – can change the chemical make-up of the host galaxies they form i...
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February
28,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/New_York
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a faraway spiral galaxy....
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January
26,
2023
| 08:00 AM America/New_York
Astronomers have developed a powerful technique for identifying starspots, according to research presented this month at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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2022
December
16,
2022
| 09:00 AM America/New_York
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky.
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October
13,
2022
| 13:31 PM America/New_York
Steven Prohira, a physicist and a former postdoctoral researcher at The Ohio State University, has been named a recipient of the 2022 MacArthur Fellowship, a prize often called the “genius grant.”...
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August
30,
2022
| 10:15 AM America/New_York
Galactic superwinds – large outflows of gas created by a combination of supernova explosions and stellar winds – are closely connected to a galaxy’s earliest stages of development and evolution, including aspects like its size, shape, and even how ma...
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May
31,
2022
| 09:00 AM America/New_York
Ohio State University astronomers have identified about 116,000 new variable stars, according to a new paper. 
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