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physics.pop-ph2026

Lots of Shade on Satellite Constellations

Michael B. Lund

The high frequency of satellite launches, particularly over the last few years, has been a subject of significant concern, particularly relating to the future of observational astr…

physics.pop-ph2025

Astronomers Getting Less Creative Over Time Is Why This Title Isn't Better

Michael B. Lund

For generations, people have complained that things used to be better in the past. In this paper, we investigate this change by specifically looking at creativity in astronomy. To…

physics.pop-ph2022

Transmogrifiers: Bright of the Exomoon

Michael B. Lund

Though it may be a behavior that has been observed and documented for millennia, and despite the connection between it and the full moon, the astronomical community has afforded ve…

physics.pop-ph2021

The Existential Threat of Future Exoplanet Discoveries

Michael B. Lund

The last 25 years have been revolutionary in astronomy, as the field of exoplanets has gone from no known planets outside the Solar System to thousands discovered over the last yea…

physics.pop-ph2019

Worlds in Migration

Michael B. Lund

In this paper we discuss an alternative track for migration that can explain the existence of Hot Jupiters observed in close orbits around their stars based on a novel interpretati…

physics.pop-ph2018

Independent Discovery of a Sub-Earth in the Habitable Zone Around a Very Close Solar-Mass Star

Michael B. Lund, Robert J. Siverd, Ponder Stibbons

With the wealth of planets that have been discovered over the past 20 years, the field can broadly be divided into two regimes. For understanding broad occurrence and format…