Brian Koberlein

Astrophysicist and Author

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Dark and Distant Past
Astronomers have mapped dark matter as it was 12 billion years ago.
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QWERTY or Not QWERTY
Almost everyone types on qwerty keyboards, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Planets of the Clouds
A search for Planet 9 found hundreds of potential candidates, but they are probably just clouds.
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Sated Star
How do you tell that a star has eaten a planet?
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Shock It To Me
A star speeding through gas and dust has much to teach us about interstellar dynamics.
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Burst of Knowledge
Gamma Ray Bursts could allow astronomers to measure Hubble’s constant at greater distances than ever before.
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Born Into the Cold Dark
New research shows that distant quasars were born in the cold dark of turbulent gas.
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Young at Heart
Astronomers have discovered a neutron star so young it’s barely a teenager.