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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…