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51 Questions

Do neutron stars shine?

Is starquake unique to neutron star?

Is there a limit to how hot a star can be?

Why is there no hurricane on the Sun?

Why aren't brown dwarfs the dark matter?

What lies at the center of a neutron star if any?

Will the Sun rotate slower in red giant form?

Are there equal number of planets, stars, galaxies etc in observable universe spinning in both directions?

Why do black holes choke?

Wouldn't the rings of Saturn experience tidal effect?

Does the shape of a supernova remnant depend on the progenitor star's magnetic field?

Can an asteroid have rings?

Is it coincident that all planets with tight orbit are tidally locked to their parent body?

Do supernovae produce powerful gravitational waves?

How can we tell the age of a rogue planet?

Are black holes solely responsible for hyper velocity stars?

What triggers solar flares?

Was the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation originally gamma rays?

What happens when star spins too fast?

Did the scientists really observed gold and platinum being created from kilonova?

Would the heliosphere disappears if our sun becomes a white dwarf?

Is it possible to tell if a certain extrasolar planet produces its own magnetic field?

How can a supernova affect black hole in a binary system?

Are galaxies moving away from us faster than before?

Would all neutron stars inevitably collapse into black holes due to quantum tunneling?

How to tell a nebula from a galaxy?

How do astronomer measures the size of any celestial objects?

Why is neutron star a star?

Why do astronomers use supernova to measure distance in space?

Source of high energy cosmic particles