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ProfRob
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Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem - Ernest Rutherford (but I'm sure he meant women too...)

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Why is the discovery of merging neutron stars important?
Oct 16 '17
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How can there be 1,000 stellar ancestors before our Sun?
Jun 21 '16
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Would we have more than 8 minutes of light, if the Sun "went out"?
Sep 28 '19
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Could the dinosaurs have seen the asteroid that killed them?
Jan 31 '18
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What happens to the 99.9 % of the sun-rays that do not fall on any planets or any other celestial body?
Aug 20 '16
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Is it dark inside the Sun?
Mar 5 '20
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Did I see another planet?
Mar 27 '16
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Which atom is a Neutron star made of?
Oct 17 '17
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Why is Gaia operating around Earth orbit? Why not send it to Neptune's orbit?
Nov 25 '19
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Are binary neutron star mergers needed to explain the abundance of gold?
Oct 16 '17
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New to Stack exchange. What is Meta and Beta in Astronomy SE?
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Why don't question-askers accept answers?
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If I sliced the universe in half, would the slice go through a star?
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Seeing something from only one angle means you have only seen (what?)% of its surface area at most?
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Why are protons, rather than electrons, the nucleus in atoms?
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Why doesn't the nuclear fusion in a star make it explode?
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How can we see planets thousands of light years away but don't know if there are more planets in the solar system?

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