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When was it worked out/discovered that our sun can't go supernova?
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Marine Sextants: Plastic vs. Metal composition [closed]
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apparent and absolute magnitude of meteors and space debris
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How can I correct for transit time?
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How to use spectral flux density data while using Planck's law giving spectral radiance?
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Is 486958 Arrokoth (2014 MU69 aka Ultima Thule) the only solar-system object determined to be binary by occultation?
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Does the cosmological principle apply to the entire universe?
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Can exoplanets be found using neutrino detectors?
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Why do tides reach a peak two days after the solar eclipse?
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How to project an arbitrary elliptical orbit onto the night sky plane?
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Does time flow in a Minkowski spacetime?
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How to calculate the moon phase angle?
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What will the PRECISE time of the Summer Solstice 2020 be?
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Apparently two objects in Solar Eclipse image
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What are the most popular computer programming languages in observational astronomy?
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Why does the Parker Solar Probe slow down as the distance from the Sun increases?
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Why is there no Proxima 'a' planet? I'm confused about the naming convention
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Computing radial-velocities from Cross Correlation data
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Why is the Moon's orbit so complicated?
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Why is the Moon's orbit so complicated?
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Detecting anomalies from the sun from home
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First Confirmed Visual Observation of Gravitational Lensing
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Can a single location on earth witness solar eclipse totality 2 times during a single eclipse event?
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Is Venus in some way tidally locked to… Earth?
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What is the magnification of my new telescope?
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Emission Line Galaxies(ELGs) selection using narrow band
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problems finding rise set and transit times at high latitudes using Meeus' algorithms
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Solar / lunar positions in ECEF using SOFA C libraries
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Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets
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Historical lunar occultation of Venus seen from Sicily in the winter?
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What does “additive fringing from the (multiplicative) twilights” mean?
Awarded Jun 7 at 1:27
Absolute zero speed in space [closed]
Awarded Jun 5 at 22:57
A question regarding the evolution of black holes [duplicate]
Awarded Jun 5 at 14:33
What would happen to the Galilean moons and Titan if Jupiter and Saturn disappeared?
Awarded Jun 4 at 15:11
Historical lunar occultation of Venus seen from Sicily in the winter?
Awarded Jun 3 at 16:05
Can I derive the position of my house's shadow from sun altitude?
Awarded Jun 3 at 14:41
Can a bullet be fired on the moon and sent it into orbit?
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Space time and aging
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can we calculate the velocity of galaxies at the edge of the observable universe?
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Why does Io cast a hard shadow on Jupiter, but the Moon casts a soft shadow on Earth?
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Has great eyesight been necessary for astronomers?
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Why does east and west appear to be mirrored in the celestial sphere?
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How to tell which of the ecliptic cross horizon angles is to the east?
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Closest star system to Alpha Centauri?
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What would happen to the Galilean moons and Titan if Jupiter and Saturn disappeared?
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Can you create an orbit in a space station using balls?
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what is the acceleration parameter in a universe?
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When was the concept of rogue planets first theorized?
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Is Jupiter a failed star?
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How to calculate moon overhead and underfoot time?
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How does the Astronomical Twilight depend on the night length or the day length?
Awarded May 10 at 16:22
Definition of space - to cope with “space expansion”
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