Department of Astronomy

Post-doc Vaclav Pavlik and Prof. Steve Shore (University of Pisa, Italy) have published a Letter to the Editor of Physics Today: How a fake Kepler portrait became iconic. They describe the research that exposed the portrait as fake. Because of its wide acceptance, both authors of the letter urge the correction of the mistake, especially since 2021 marks Kepler’s 450th birthday.

Vaclav Pavlik finished his doctoral thesis at Charles University in September 2019. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (November 2019-August 2020) and in September 2020, he joined the Astronomy Department at IU, Bloomington.