Alumnus Eric Berger Reflects on the Joys of Science Communication

February 4, 2019 • by Marc Airhart

Meet Eric Berger (B.S. Astronomy, '95), Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and Editor at Space City Weather.


Portrait of a man in a jacket standing at the shore of a body of water with clouds overhead

Eric Berger. Photo credit: Brent Humphreys.

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Illustration of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, composed of the red dwarf star Wolf 1130A, its close and compact white dwarf companion Wolf 1130B, and the distant brown dwarf tertiary Wolf 1130C. The three components of this system are shown scaled to their relative sizes. Image credit: Adam Burgasser, UCSD.

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