Geert Barentsen

TL;DR: The small size of the SETI workforce is a major problem for NASA and the search for life elsewhere in the universe and the Astro2020 Decadal should address this issue by making nurturing the field an explicit priority for the next decade.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight changes that will enable a sustainable software sharing system for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade, which is critical to astronomical research and has long-term impacts on scientific outcomes.

TL;DR: The K2 mission of the Kepler Space Telescope offers a unique possibility to examine sources of both Galactic and Extra-galactic origin with high cadence photometry as mentioned in this paper. But, due to the nature of the background pixels, it is likely that Kepler has serendipitously observed many transients throughout K2 such events will likely have occurred in background pixels.