A thoroughly sporadic column from astronomer Mike Brown on space and science, planets and dwarf planets, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the joys and frustrations of search, discovery, and life. With a family in tow. Or towing. Or perhaps in mutual orbit.



Favorite posts
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  • Di/ astronomical discoveries


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  •  /four essays on the sizes of Eris and Pluto and their implications for planethood

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  • Na/series on how these objects get their crazy names, with examples.

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  • Sk/notice, if you look up
Yelping at saints (why is the full moon so bright?)
  • Titan, my hobby, for when I need a break from the Kuiper belt
Lake effect clouds on Titan (and what happens when Science rejects your paper) 
</ My family
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