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Event Location: Hybrid: McPherson Lab 4054 & Zoom
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Thu, August 27, 2026
Event Start Time: 3:00 pm
Event Location: Hybrid: Chem & Biomolecular Eng & Chem (CBEC) - Room 130 and Zoom
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Ohio State helps NASA mission lift off to scan the cosmos

By Tatyana Woodall

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches this week with a field of view large enough to unravel some of the universe’s most mysterious puzzles.

Quasars have been found with luminosities between 10 to 100,000 times that of the Milky Way.

Astronomers discover super-bright quasar lenses

An international team of scientists has used machine learning to identify seven rare quasar candidates, according to a new study.

Quasars, distant cores of galaxies powered by supermassive…

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51 Pegasi b Fellowship at Ohio State - 2027 applications now open

By Jonathan Crass

The Heising-Simons Foundation is accepting applications for their 2027 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship program in Planetary Astronomy. The fellowship provides an opportunity for…

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Miqaela Weller awarded Obey Scholarship

Graduate student Miqaela Weller has been awarded an Obey Scholarship by the OSU College of Arts and Sciences. Established November 4, 2016, with an estate gift from Fred E. Obey (BS 1951); the…

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