Suzie Dills has waited for years to see a total solar eclipse. This year, her wish is coming true. Dills is an astronomer and director of the Hoover Price Planetarium in Canton. She viewed a partial eclipse in 2017, but not a total one. For the first time in over 200 years, on April 8, […]
Ohio State University is putting its spin on this spring’s total solar eclipse. Or should we say… THEclipse. The university’s alumni association is hosting a family-friendly event on March 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. led by Ohio State astronomy experts at the Arne Slettebak Planetarium. It was shared in an email titled “Get […]
Scientists may have found evidence that vampire black holes feeding on their victim stars — so-called microquasars — are the cosmic particle accelerators responsible for mysterious high-energy cosmic rays we see bombarding Earth. These stellar mass black holes exist in binary systems with a supergiant star from which they greedily strip material. Some of that […]
The world of astronomy has already offered a pretty fascinating start to 2024. In just the first five days of the year, we’ve seen incredible discoveries like the true colors of Neptune and Uranus as well as a massive cyclone raging on a distant exoplanet thanks to the trusty Hubble Space Telescope. But things are […]