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Does the Earth constantly lose mass?

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What equation tells you how far in space you can go from a point and return?

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Why is Venus's atmospheric pressure 75 times that of earth when carbon dioxide is only 1.5 times heavier than air?

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Why did Chandrasekhar use 2.5 for molecular weight in 1931?

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How did asteroid (7482) 1994 PC1 get its "face"? Is it reconstructed from optical or radar imaging, or something else?

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Do the inner-Earth planets actually align with the constellations we see?

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How would "dark matter", subject only to gravity, behave?

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"Tidally locked" Oort Cloud object

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Can stars be born giants?

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Could it be possible to detect planets from stars that went supernova through the resulting nebula shape?

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Are main-sequence G9 stars habitable?

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How do I estimate the difference in the speed of time flow between Earth and a distant star?

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Did this satellite streak past the Hubble Space Telescope so close that it was out of focus? If so, how close was it?

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How do I calculate the moment of the solstice?

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Moon's equation of the centre discrepancy

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How to find zero velocity contours for circular restricted 3-body problem in x-y plane?

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Adhara ultraviolet magnitude

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In layman's terms, why does the cold C-N-O process end in Carbon?

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Why does the Milky Way look as though it's lit from one side?

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Supernova remnant spectral lines

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Conditions in the Early Universe

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How to calculate distance between stars?

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How exactly is UT1 measured/calculated?

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Numerical Programming using ODEINT takes more than 17 minutes

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Calculating the parameters of binary systems?

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How certain is the Sun's classification?

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Seeing exoplanets with glare

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Outer Limit of Oort Cloud

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Venus Atmosphere Color

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Can the expansion of the universe cool my beer?

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What do the negative values in FITS images mean?

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Will the Milky Way galaxy revolve around the Andromeda galaxy or vice versa?

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Modified Julian Date (MJD)'s epoch is 0:00 on November 17, 1858 (JD − 2400000.5) has fewer digits than JD. But what's so special about November 1858?

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Does syzygy mean only three aligned bodies, or at least three aligned bodies?

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How much of the variance of matter is due to scales

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At what point above Jupiter is the gravity Earth-like?

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Moonrise and Moonset time in Sydney vs Perth

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CSPICE vs JPL Horizons discrepancy in AZ/EL

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Size of the whole universe if it were spherical

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How (the heck) does an astronomical Celescope work? And how did it get its name?

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where are we in the universe as compared to the observable universe? [duplicate]

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Do astronomical datasets exist that receive duplicates or are there multiple datasets that contain the same entities (stars)?

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What do you call the opposite of a leap second?

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Motion equation of a space engine in low-earth orbit

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How can I get a list of the closest x stars and their distances from the Gaia ESA Archive using Python?

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Sideways crescent moon in Maryland


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