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Where do we define the "surface" of a gas planet?

asked Jun 25, 2020 at 20:42

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7 answers

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Why there are no terrestrial planets with a subsurface ocean?

asked Jun 23, 2020 at 21:54

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2 answers

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The deduction of the Hill Sphere formula

asked Oct 24, 2016 at 20:48

9 votes

1 answer

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Why are Saturn bands much fainter than Jupiter's?

asked Jul 12, 2016 at 15:38

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1 answer

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How did ancient astronomers know to order the planets from the closest to the farthest from the Sun?

asked Oct 15, 2016 at 1:35

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1 answer

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Why would the Earth's solar analemma would be still a figue eight even if Earth's orbit was circular?

asked Dec 2, 2015 at 22:40

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3 answers

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Are the stars outside of the galactic plane in the galactic halo?

asked Nov 11, 2016 at 23:50

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How long does a comet "live"?

asked Oct 1, 2016 at 23:07

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2 answers

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The most feasible hypothesis about Theia

asked Jul 15, 2017 at 9:50

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Why is the eccentricity of Triton so low?

asked Jan 5, 2017 at 19:19

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Question about tidal forces and the Roche limit

asked May 10, 2019 at 1:52

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How spectrographs that measure radial velocities manage to translate variations in the stars' spectrum lines into the orbital speed of the star?

asked Oct 17, 2019 at 17:27

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Strange asymptotic behavior on the Kozai-Lidov cycles

asked Mar 20, 2020 at 21:33

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Why 2014-2015-2016 were the years when the number of discovered exoplanets increased the most?

asked Nov 17, 2020 at 3:53

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Why N$_2$ is a non-absorbing species in the spectrum of the Earth?

asked Jun 30, 2020 at 20:13

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Why the habitable zone of a binary star is a disc and not a sphere?

asked Oct 15, 2020 at 2:39

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Time vs magnification in a binary lens

asked Jan 31, 2020 at 22:40

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Question about the Figure-eight periodic planar three-body motion

asked Sep 1, 2016 at 21:28

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If the Sun were bigger but colder, Earth would be hotter or colder?

asked Dec 19, 2015 at 14:59

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Why are tides biggest during the equinoxes?

asked Jul 27, 2016 at 20:59

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1 answer

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How can the next supermoon be analytically predicted?

asked Nov 12, 2016 at 23:05

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1 answer

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Requirements for a satellite/planet to be tidally locked to a planet/star

asked Feb 26, 2017 at 0:42

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Calculate the orbital phase when plotting the Radial Velocity data of a transitting exoplanet

asked Dec 26, 2018 at 11:56

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3 answers

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Why is it impossible to estimate the inclination of an exoplanet with the Radial Velocity Method?

asked Dec 29, 2018 at 15:57

2 votes

1 answer

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Derivation of the orbital parameters of a exoplanet discovered by direct imaging

asked Jan 4, 2020 at 21:07

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The electron–cyclotron maser emissions from Earth

asked Dec 18, 2020 at 11:27

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Relation between inner and outer eccentricities in a hierarchical triple star system

asked Feb 5, 2021 at 17:42

2 votes

1 answer

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Estimating the radius of a non-transiting exoplanet

asked Jun 29, 2023 at 12:28

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Where can I download processed data of the Kepler telescope?

asked Feb 17, 2020 at 21:34

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Why pulsar pulses are so extremely regular?

asked Jan 11, 2020 at 21:09

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32 Questions

Where do we define the "surface" of a gas planet?

Why there are no terrestrial planets with a subsurface ocean?

The deduction of the Hill Sphere formula

Why are Saturn bands much fainter than Jupiter's?

How did ancient astronomers know to order the planets from the closest to the farthest from the Sun?

Why would the Earth's solar analemma would be still a figue eight even if Earth's orbit was circular?

Are the stars outside of the galactic plane in the galactic halo?

How long does a comet "live"?

The most feasible hypothesis about Theia

Why is the eccentricity of Triton so low?

Question about tidal forces and the Roche limit

How spectrographs that measure radial velocities manage to translate variations in the stars' spectrum lines into the orbital speed of the star?

Strange asymptotic behavior on the Kozai-Lidov cycles

Why 2014-2015-2016 were the years when the number of discovered exoplanets increased the most?

Why N$_2$ is a non-absorbing species in the spectrum of the Earth?

Why the habitable zone of a binary star is a disc and not a sphere?

Time vs magnification in a binary lens

Question about the Figure-eight periodic planar three-body motion

If the Sun were bigger but colder, Earth would be hotter or colder?

Why are tides biggest during the equinoxes?

How can the next supermoon be analytically predicted?

Requirements for a satellite/planet to be tidally locked to a planet/star

Calculate the orbital phase when plotting the Radial Velocity data of a transitting exoplanet

Why is it impossible to estimate the inclination of an exoplanet with the Radial Velocity Method?

Derivation of the orbital parameters of a exoplanet discovered by direct imaging

The electron–cyclotron maser emissions from Earth

Relation between inner and outer eccentricities in a hierarchical triple star system

Estimating the radius of a non-transiting exoplanet

Where can I download processed data of the Kepler telescope?

Why pulsar pulses are so extremely regular?