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giardia
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  • Oakland CA, USA
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I only respond to questions I like, so "good question" is always implied.

The sad story of why I am here: My friend Thomas died suddenly with a 30k+ reputation on StackOverflow. I was never able to find his username, but I was strangely proud of his achievement, because it really means he reached a lot of people. I never knew he was such an Overflower while he was alive. So I opened an account on Astronomy StackExchange and I'm trying to follow in Thomas' footsteps. If anyone from StackOverflow happens to know his username, I would be curious to know.

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Why is Neptune a darker blue than Uranus?
Feb 3, 2022
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Which JWST instrument modes are compatible with observations of the bright trans-Earth planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn? Which aren't?
Jan 11, 2022
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Is possible to identify the Lagrange L2 point in the sky from the earth?
Dec 30, 2021
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Can Jupiter's rings be seen with the naked eye by an astronaut nearby? How difficult would it be?
Dec 4, 2021
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Why aren't concentrated solar power plants use for astronomical observations of some type?
Mar 7, 2022
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What if Earth’s moon started rotating?
Jan 24, 2022
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For what aspects of cosmology research can a software engineer contribute?
Mar 22, 2022
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How did this artefact end up in the SIMBAD sky map?
Sep 7, 2022
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HD numbers according to the positions
Sep 15, 2022
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How often and for what reasons does Hubble use two different instruments at the same time?
Sep 15, 2022
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For multi-part questions, are both partial and complete answers encouraged?
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What form of electrical lighting has the smallest energy-footprint?