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Finding a paper that has only abstract on ADS
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Are there really half-a billion visible supernovae exploding all the time?
Awarded Jun 24 at 21:11
Is this an image of an astronomical observatory? If not, what's behind these domes?
Awarded Jun 22 at 7:10
When exactly was the last time that Earth's aphelion coincided (within 24 hours) with the northern winter (December) solstice?
Awarded Jun 13 at 8:17
Is Earth's Atmospheric Thickness Related to Cosmic Ray Radiation?
Awarded Jun 13 at 8:17
Is it theoretically possible for the Sun to go dark?
Awarded Jun 9 at 9:50
Why do stars usually stop fusion at iron, even though nickel-62 has the highest binding energy per nucleon?
Awarded Jun 8 at 18:15
How many individual extrasolar "shiny" objects has humanity identified?
Awarded Jun 3 at 19:04
What can I see with 10x50 binoculars in bortle class 4?
Awarded Jun 3 at 7:12
Visibility of Planetary alignment of 6 planets on 3 June 2024 from Prague
Awarded May 28 at 18:42
What does an inclination of 0 degrees mean?
Awarded May 23 at 12:41
Are spectral subtypes a logarithmic scale, or a linear one?
Awarded May 20 at 15:51
Why do we want to normalize the solar abundance of elements to Si?
Awarded May 19 at 1:25
What is the difference between a solar eclipse seen from Earth, the Moon, and from 1 one of Jupiter's Galilean moons (ex. Io)?
Awarded May 18 at 12:57
Why do larger mass stars form quicker?
Awarded May 18 at 5:25
Can individual rings of Saturn be considered satellites?
Awarded May 9 at 14:50
How do K, F, A and B stars die?
Awarded May 7 at 13:31
How did the ancient cultures determine that the year was actually a fraction of an extra day beyond 365 days?
Awarded May 1 at 21:42
Worthwhile to put a telescope on the far side of the Sun?
Awarded Apr 22 at 3:50
What is the ugriz magnitude system?
Awarded Apr 20 at 14:33
Can an astronomer fully work remotely?
Awarded Apr 18 at 16:06
Why is there a year 1 B.C., a year 0, and a year 1 A.D. in NASA’s Five Millennium Canon of Solar Eclipses?
Awarded Apr 16 at 2:55
How precise are future Solar eclipse timing, path and dates, what could change timing/path?
Awarded Apr 12 at 4:41
What caused pink flares during the eclipse
Awarded Apr 10 at 4:40
Can stars form in the stellar halo?
Awarded Apr 4 at 6:26
Are these images of the same nebula?
Awarded Apr 3 at 19:36
Can a Nova occur outside of a binary star system?
Awarded Mar 29 at 19:26
Would LIGO Detect Head-On Collision?
Awarded Mar 27 at 23:41
Do Pulsar stars make actual sounds?
Awarded Mar 25 at 20:15
What's the name of outside the cosmic horizon?
Awarded Mar 24 at 22:27
Earth is Tilted, but in reference to What Object / relative to what?
Awarded Mar 24 at 1:16
Are galaxies growing, shrinking or stable?
Awarded Mar 15 at 22:46
Are spacecraft visits to Uranus and Neptune hard to plan?
Awarded Mar 12 at 18:21
Is the mechanism of solar flares on red dwarfs and brown dwarfs the same as that on the Sun?
Awarded Mar 11 at 11:57
Voyager spacecraft distance from Earth
Awarded Mar 9 at 3:22
Why wasn't the planet Uranus recognized by ancient cultures?
Awarded Mar 6 at 12:04
Is there any way to detect the three-dimensional distribution of baryonic gas in our Universe?
Awarded Mar 5 at 2:45
Why do most planets remain within a few degrees from the ecliptic?
Awarded Mar 4 at 21:21
Safest Place on Earth from Falling Meteorites
Awarded Mar 3 at 19:08
Sun moves relative to the stellar background?
Awarded Mar 3 at 17:12
Why are IAU constellation boundaries not rectilinear?
Awarded Mar 2 at 11:56
Why don't we just unshift the IR photos from Webb?
Awarded Feb 26 at 21:10
Is the Sun "chemically peculiar", and if not why is HD 222925?
Awarded Feb 24 at 20:06
Is there a word for an object orbiting a brown dwarf?
Awarded Feb 21 at 12:49
How are we observing the newly discovered "dark galaxy" J0613+52, if it has no stars and is so far away from other galaxies?
Awarded Feb 17 at 14:10
How do I know it is safe to remove eclipse glasses when viewing a total solar eclipse?
Awarded Feb 16 at 10:33
Would be possible to detect Planet Nine as a microlensing event along the line of its projected orbit?
Awarded Feb 8 at 14:49
Is the amount of dark matter the same as you look back through time (further away from earth)?
Awarded Feb 6 at 22:04
Is REDSHIFT one word or two?
Awarded Feb 5 at 12:42
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, forms part of a galaxy group called The Local Group. What are the parameters that dictate what a galaxy group is?
Awarded Feb 1 at 16:57
Earth's rotation axis perpendicular to Sun-Earth line during equinox
Awarded Jan 31 at 16:09
As of now how much larger is our practically observable universe compared to just prior to JWST becoming operational
Awarded Jan 31 at 1:41
Within the Milky Way, how much helium is made each second?
Awarded Jan 27 at 20:16
What is the exact reason for the Sun's differential rotation to occur?
Awarded Jan 25 at 15:55
Was this video shot with a ground based hobby astronomer telescope?
Awarded Jan 22 at 10:35
Is it safer to be near a star or a black hole?
Awarded Jan 11 at 22:34
At what velocity would an object have to fall in order to become weightless?
Awarded Jan 11 at 15:41
What's the reason for the hollow region in Oort cloud?
Awarded Jan 9 at 22:36
What happens when the quasar remnants reach Earth in 3 million years?
Awarded Jan 8 at 14:33
Proportion of Lunar Fraction in a Year
Awarded Jan 8 at 0:26
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