Astronomy

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Questions regarding large spheres of plasma undergoing fusion.
1054 questions
10 asked this month, 177 this year
Questions about the techniques and practice of observing the night sky.
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5 asked this week, 26 this month
Questions regarding the closest star to Earth, at the centre of the Solar System.
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6 asked this month, 123 this year
Questions regarding points of extremely high mass density, which creates an extremely strong gravitational field from which light cannot escape.
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5 asked this month, 108 this year
Questions regarding an object 'falling around' another object, due to a combination of gravity and momentum.
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9 asked this month, 94 this year
Questions regarding Earth's only natural satellite. For questions about the natural satellites of other planets, use the tag [natural-satellite].
686 questions
6 asked this month, 95 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.
671 questions
87 asked this year
Questions regarding systems of large numbers of stars held together by gravity.
629 questions
8 asked this month, 100 this year
Questions related to the physical instruments for astronomical observations.
606 questions
16 asked this month, 99 this year
Questions regarding the Sun and objects orbiting it.
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5 asked this month, 86 this year
Questions regarding the attractive force which exists between any two bodies of matter.
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71 asked 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.
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95 asked this year
Questions regarding the planet on which humans live; the third planet from the Sun.
508 questions
57 asked this year
Questions about the observation of celestial objects by non-professional astronomers.
488 questions
11 asked this month, 90 this year
Questions regarding planets that lie outside the Solar System.
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5 asked this month, 71 this year
Questions about the origin, history, evolution and fate of the Universe.
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76 asked this year
Questions regarding all of time and space and its contents.
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25 asked this year
Questions regarding electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum.
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35 asked this year
Questions regarding relatively small rocky bodies in an orbit around the Sun.
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47 asked this year
Questions about observations performed in the radio frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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54 asked this year
The application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft.
281 questions
5 asked this month, 78 this year
Questions regarding the amount of space between two objects, the units, or measurement thereof.
276 questions
31 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…
246 questions
8 asked this month, 43 this year
Questions on systems to uniquely determine position of a point or other geometric element on a manifold such as Euclidean space.
232 questions
7 asked this month, 40 this year
Questions regarding the Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy that Earth's solar system is in.
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30 asked this year
Questions regarding the history of astronomy, including discoveries and scientists.
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33 asked this year
Questions regarding stars which increase suddenly in energy output due to an explosion which ejected much of its mass.
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36 asked this year
Questions regarding Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun.
213 questions
25 asked this year
Questions regarding the action of or an object rotating along an axis.
210 questions
32 asked this year
Questions regarding Jupiter, the 5th and largest planet in the Solar System.
209 questions
31 asked this year
Questions about relativistic theory of gravity. General relativity describes gravity as a geometrical property of space and time.
208 questions
43 asked this year
Analysis of data is a process of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making.
208 questions
5 asked this month, 53 this year
Questions about the measurement of light waves whereby the wavelength is classified by its position in the electromagnetic spectrum.
203 questions
47 asked this year
Questions on celestial bodies that orbit planets.
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24 asked this year
Questions regarding the 4-dimensional background structure of our universe.
192 questions
10 asked this year
Icy bodies that usually consist of methane, water, and other materials that originate from beyond the jovian planets, and occasionally fall into the inner solar system giving off a massive tail as mat…
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