Astronomy

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Questions about the techniques and practice of observing the night sky.
1253 questions
15 asked this month, 190 this year
Questions regarding large spheres of plasma undergoing fusion.
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5 asked this month, 98 this year
Questions regarding the closest star to Earth, at the centre of the Solar System.
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60 asked 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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53 asked this year
Questions regarding an object 'falling around' another object, due to a combination of gravity and momentum.
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48 asked this year
Questions regarding Earth's only natural satellite. For questions about the natural satellites of other planets, use the tag [natural-satellite].
742 questions
51 asked 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.
725 questions
45 asked this year
Questions regarding systems of large numbers of stars held together by gravity.
723 questions
8 asked this month, 89 this year
Questions related to the physical instruments for astronomical observations.
663 questions
6 asked this month, 49 this year
Questions regarding the Sun and objects orbiting it.
659 questions
5 asked this month, 58 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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6 asked this month, 69 this year
Questions regarding the attractive force which exists between any two bodies of matter.
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46 asked this year
Questions about the observation of celestial objects by non-professional astronomers.
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6 asked this month, 61 this year
Questions regarding the planet on which humans live; the third planet from the Sun.
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36 asked this year
Questions about the origin, history, evolution and fate of the Universe.
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7 asked this month, 67 this year
Questions regarding planets that lie outside the Solar System.
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5 asked this month, 45 this year
Questions regarding all of time and space and its contents.
363 questions
6 asked this month, 32 this year
The application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft.
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43 asked this year
Questions regarding relatively small rocky bodies in an orbit around the Sun.
331 questions
26 asked this year
Questions regarding electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum.
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Questions about observations performed in the radio frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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28 asked this year
Questions regarding the amount of space between two objects, the units, or measurement thereof.
315 questions
5 asked this month, 33 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…
278 questions
29 asked this year
Questions on systems to uniquely determine position of a point or other geometric element on a manifold such as Euclidean space.
269 questions
36 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.
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47 asked this year
Questions regarding the Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy that Earth's solar system is in.
255 questions
23 asked this year
Questions regarding stars which increase suddenly in energy output due to an explosion which ejected much of its mass.
251 questions
5 asked this month, 33 this year
Questions about the measurement of light waves whereby the wavelength is classified by its position in the electromagnetic spectrum.
241 questions
36 asked this year
Questions regarding the action of or an object rotating along an axis.
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25 asked this year
Questions regarding the history of astronomy, including discoveries and scientists.
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Questions regarding Jupiter, the 5th and largest planet in the Solar System.
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Questions regarding Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun.
230 questions
15 asked this year
Questions about relativistic theory of gravity. General relativity describes gravity as a geometrical property of space and time.
230 questions
20 asked this year
Questions related to the evolution of stars.
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25 asked this year
Questions about the increase with time of distance between two distant points in the Universe.
211 questions
30 asked this year
Questions on celestial bodies that orbit planets.
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