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Questions regarding large spheres of plasma undergoing fusion.
760 questions
5 asked this week, 13 this month
Questions regarding the closest star to Earth, at the centre of the Solar System.
594 questions
5 asked this week, 11 this month
Questions regarding points of extremely high mass density, which creates an extremely strong gravitational field from which light cannot escape.
547 questions
5 asked this month, 123 this year
Questions regarding an object 'falling around' another object, due to a combination of gravity and momentum.
532 questions
74 asked this year
Questions about the techniques and practice of observing the night sky.
523 questions
18 asked this month, 143 this year
Questions on astronomical objects orbiting a star massive enough to be rounded, not massive enough to cause fusion, and which have cleared its orbit of planetesimals.
519 questions
66 asked this year
Questions regarding Earth's only natural satellite. For questions about the natural satellites of other planets, use the tag [natural-satellite].
512 questions
8 asked this month, 79 this year
Questions regarding systems of large numbers of stars held together by gravity.
460 questions
9 asked this month, 81 this year
Questions regarding the Sun and objects orbiting it.
442 questions
7 asked this month, 76 this year
Questions regarding the attractive force which exists between any two bodies of matter.
425 questions
57 asked this year
Questions related to the physical instruments for astronomical observations.
416 questions
66 asked this year
Questions regarding the planet on which humans live; the third planet from the Sun.
411 questions
5 asked this month, 69 this year
Questions involving the physics of the universe, especially the nature of astronomical objects, energy fields, and/or regions, rather than their positions or motions in space.
347 questions
7 asked this month, 78 this year
Questions about the observation of celestial objects by non-professional astronomers.
315 questions
6 asked this month, 61 this year
Questions regarding planets that lie outside the Solar System.
297 questions
13 asked this month, 61 this year
Questions about the origin, history, evolution and fate of the Universe.
292 questions
64 asked this year
Questions regarding all of time and space and its contents.
279 questions
37 asked this year
Questions regarding electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum.
263 questions
37 asked this year
Questions regarding relatively small rocky bodies in an orbit around the Sun.
223 questions
35 asked this year
Questions regarding the amount of space between two objects, the units, or measurement thereof.
203 questions
35 asked this year
Questions regarding the Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy that Earth's solar system is in.
182 questions
28 asked this year
Questions about observation performed in the radio frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum (between 10 MHz and 100 GHz).
174 questions
53 asked this year
Questions regarding the 4-dimensional background structure of our universe.
167 questions
18 asked this year
Questions about photography of celestial objects by amateur or professional astronomers. Questions about photography of other objects are off-topic but might be asked on our sister site Photography St…
167 questions
34 asked this year
Questions on systems to uniquely determine position of a point or other geometric element on a manifold such as Euclidean space.
158 questions
6 asked this month, 33 this year
Questions regarding stars which increase suddenly in energy output due to an explosion which ejected much of its mass.
156 questions
29 asked this year
Questions involving reference frames, time scales, and how they are determined.
154 questions
14 asked this year
Questions regarding the action of or an object rotating along an axis.
151 questions
30 asked this year
Questions about the increase with time of distance between two distant points in the Universe.
148 questions
31 asked this year
Questions about relativistic theory of gravity. General relativity describes gravity as a geometrical property of space and time.
147 questions
25 asked this year
Questions regarding a layer of gasses surrounding a celestial object.
147 questions
13 asked this year
The near-vacuum extending between the planets and stars, containing small amounts of gas and dust. Also called outer space to refer to the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
147 questions
18 asked this year
Questions regarding the currently prevalent cosmological model for the origin of the universe.
142 questions
18 asked this year
Questions regarding Jupiter, the 5th and largest planet in the Solar System.
141 questions
16 asked this year
Questions regarding Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun.
141 questions
30 asked this year
The application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft.
137 questions
9 asked this month, 49 this year
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