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Constellation search from April 22 2007
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Does a planet's mass or gravity affect the height of it's mountains?
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Incorrect best period fit over phase-folded data
Awarded Sep 21 at 13:11
Has anyone ever tried to make a simple telescope using ice?
Awarded Sep 16 at 16:50
What percentage of the time can we see the moon during the day?
Awarded Sep 16 at 16:50
Difference between J2000, FK5 and ICRS coordinate systems? Which one does the Yale Bright Star Catalog use?
Awarded Sep 13 at 20:51
Is it possible for a planet to heat up its moon to habitable temperatures solely through infrared radiation?
Awarded Sep 13 at 11:27
Can a satellite stay in one place but not above equator?
Awarded Sep 12 at 7:08
What's the meaning of virial in Astronomy, and in particular the expression "a virialized cluster of galaxies"?
Awarded Sep 9 at 22:56
On (minuscule) dark matter production in supernovae
Awarded Sep 9 at 9:51
What's the percentage of strange matter inside a star at any time?
Awarded Sep 9 at 0:55
Given the vast scale of the universe, why the Fermi Paradox?
Awarded Sep 7 at 17:25
Why would a quantity like the 'Hubble contrast' be squared, then have its square root taken?
Awarded Sep 7 at 15:17
What will happen to a metal asteroid if it impacts the Earth? Will it disintegrate or will it stay intact?
Awarded Sep 5 at 22:41
Is the Astronomical Unit measured from the Sun's center or from the surface?
Awarded Sep 4 at 19:51
Why is the sun not directly overhead at noon on the March equinox at N 0° 0' 0.00" E 0° 0' 0.00"?
Awarded Sep 2 at 1:42
Is the event horizon the defining characteristic of a black hole?
Awarded Aug 30 at 21:36
Is the event horizon the defining characteristic of a black hole?
Awarded Aug 30 at 13:40
Are there other life giving sources of energy in space apart from stars (like nebulae, radiation, etc.)?
Awarded Aug 28 at 20:11
Are there other life giving sources of energy in space apart from stars (like nebulae, radiation, etc.)?
Awarded Aug 28 at 16:25
What effect does time dilation have on bodies orbiting close to Black Holes?
Awarded Aug 28 at 9:42
Are Saros series separated by "40" in numbering related in any way?
Awarded Aug 26 at 23:17
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Awarded Aug 23 at 7:12
How does Titan maintain its atmosphere?
Awarded Aug 22 at 8:35
What is notable about LOFAR's sub-arcsecond radio resolution of distant galaxies? Does lower freq. range enable new capabilities that mm wave can't?
Awarded Aug 19 at 13:20
How does the hypothesis of the "inconstant Hubble constant" solve the current crisis in cosmology?
Awarded Aug 18 at 14:33
How was Theia discovered?
Awarded Aug 18 at 11:06
Is it possible for stars to not begin fusing hydrogen at all?
Awarded Aug 18 at 0:51
In the Cambridge Star Atlas 2000.0, two of the horizon line labels are flipped on one side of the page. Typo, or is there a reason?
Awarded Aug 16 at 18:47
How much time do I have left to easily spot the recently brightened Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi with binoculars and mild light pollution?
Awarded Aug 14 at 12:51
Brightest Stars (by its Apparent Magnitude) List beyond 300
Awarded Aug 14 at 3:36
Earlier references of Mars' arsia mons elongated cloud?
Awarded Aug 12 at 17:17
Calculate exact date and time from position of the sun - 88° degrees
Awarded Aug 7 at 3:41
What would be the effects of a -400 nanotesla geomagnetic storm on modern electronics?
Awarded Aug 2 at 20:35
Why does Jupiter have so many moons?
Awarded Aug 2 at 20:08
Why are the radio images of the jet of 3C 273 different?
Awarded Aug 2 at 8:49
Exploded star or object on earth?
Awarded Aug 1 at 23:04
Why is Jupiter's Great Red Spot reddish?
Awarded Aug 1 at 1:26
is weight of two identical objects same when they have the same exact distance from earth's surface but one is on a mountain and the other on a plane?
Awarded Jul 31 at 10:45
Infall velocity in core-collapse supernovae
Awarded Jul 30 at 17:40
Spectra of different stellar classes?
Awarded Jul 30 at 15:36
Task about equinox and upper culmination
Awarded Jul 26 at 11:47
What it the outer part of the sun, that we see with our eyes, called?
Awarded Jul 20 at 15:16
If a black hole was headed for our solar system and would arrive within a year, would we necessarily know of it?
Awarded Jul 20 at 9:43
If a black hole was headed for our solar system and would arrive within a year, would we necessarily know of it?
Awarded Jul 19 at 23:31
derivation of binary mass function for eccentric orbit
Awarded Jul 18 at 23:21
Because the Universe is expanding, what is it taking up?
Awarded Jul 15 at 19:11
How is Hubble? What role does the payload computer play for astronomic observations?
Awarded Jul 15 at 7:36
What is the thickness of black holes event horizon?
Awarded Jul 15 at 6:12
Can eternal inflation and gravity explain dark energy?
Awarded Jul 13 at 18:04
Intuitive explanation of the source of energy that cause Jupiter and Saturn to migrate outward in the Grand Tack Hypothesis?
Awarded Jul 8 at 11:07
Why is there a mountain inside the Herschel crater on Mimas?
Awarded Jul 7 at 3:26
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Awarded Jul 5 at 3:27
Specutils Gaussian1D fitter and estimators
Awarded Jul 4 at 20:28
Black Holes: More Than One Entry Point?
Awarded Jul 4 at 10:42
How to find the the diameter of the moon during a total solar eclipse?
Awarded Jul 4 at 7:42
If a black hole is spinning, does its singularity have a new name and what is the name?
Awarded Jul 3 at 8:55
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