Brian Koberlein

Astrophysicist and Author

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Marking the Spot
Predicting the appearance of a sunspot is like predicting a tornado. But astronomers are starting to do it.
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Expanding Lens
Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us.
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Bury the Lede
Google is shadow-listing posts on my site, while listing sites that scrape my content and post it with Google ads.
fiction
Just Gravel
Ceres regolith is pretty easy work. Mostly fine dust with a bit of ice and gravel. It’s the gravel that gives the auger the most trouble.
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Herr Professor
Titles are really important to academics. That can be a problem when some faculty decide to weaponize them.
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An Unexpected Party
Some of the oldest stars in our galaxy have orbits similar to the Sun, and we don’t know why.
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To Catch a Kilonova
Astronomers have seen how two neutron stars created the brightest kilonova ever observed.
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The Imaginary Universe
Neurons in the human brain have a similar structure to the cosmic web, but that’s not unexpected.