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Is this site appropriate for identifying ufos?
I am just asking this question before I post some questions regarding my analysis on a "ufo case on mars" which I think is just I misidentified moon. Because I needed critique of my analysis ...
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DaveTheWave isn’t a new contributor; Can we do something about repeated account recreation?
I thought I must be going insane, but no, it’s not just me. Other people have noticed too that DaveTheWave keeps making new accounts. They will then post low-quality content. One they get a reputation ...
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Why don't question-askers accept answers?
Out of idle curiosity, I was looking through some of my (old) answers to questions which have been reasonably upvoted, were often the only answer, but have not been accepted.
Fair enough, you could ...
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Threshold for site graduation?
We've been in beta for almost 8 years. A look at Astronomy's vitals on Area 51 shows this:
Our beloved Astronomy SE can't graduate until these issues have been resolved:
We only have 5.3 questions ...
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Congratulations Astronomy Stack Exchange for 10k questions!
I just checked the question count, and discovered that we hit 10k overnight (well actually a few hours after 0:00 UTC) :D
So I just want to say congratulations to everyone here, the moderators, all ...
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Is "solve this n-body system for me" on topic here?
Are worldbuilding-style questions which boil down to "is this n-body system I've invented stable" on-topic for this site?
As examples I am talking about things like
Is this a potential planetary ...
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What does a good "What is this thing in the sky?" question look like?
As per the help center,
Avoid asking questions about unidentified aerial objects unless you are prepared to provide detailed pictures and/or sufficient description to identify the time, location, ...
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Let's ask more meaty questions! - Part II
Very early on in the life of Astronomy Stack Exchange, during private beta, Jon Ericson expressed concern over the level of questions the site was getting. The problem then was that the site was ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Are Questions related to Cosmology and ancient history of astronomy allowed in Astronomy SE?
I am newcommer on this site , and would like to know whether we can ask questions relating to cosmology on this site?. As I am a enthusiast in both subjects. But these are not my professions. It is ...
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Question on daily inequality for tides
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/2096/why-is-there-a-daily-inequality-for-low-tides
I understand the reason for asking this question on Astronomy. The OP likely assumed that the answer ...
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Would we benefit from having a self-answered question explaining why the "dark side of the moon" terminology is confusing?
I notice that it comes up a lot around here and Space Exploration that someone seems to have a misconception regarding the "dark side of the moon". Would it be beneficial to our community to have a ...
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Are questions easily answered by Google or Wikipedia on-topic here?
This question ("What is the Great Attractor?") is the one that prompted me to ask this, but it's a more general question.
If a question like "What is Foo?" can be quickly answered by, for example, ...
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Non-expert questions
Specifically, mine. As you would know, I am not a professional nor expert in astronomy (am an applied atmospheric physicist and a teacher and as I often say in chat, I am as dumb as a box of rocks), ...
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How do we determine what geoscience questions are in scope?
We have basically three classes of geoscience questions here:
Specific Geoscience Questions
Day and night temperature on an earthlike planet with longer rotational period (Note: Says "earth-like&...
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Topic of the Week: [astrometry]
Topic of the week is a week where we make an effort to ask and answer more questions around a specific tag, this brings more attention to the topic which in turn should bring us more views and users ...
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Homework policy
Although this issue more than likely won't be as much of an issue as say, Physics.SE and Mathematics.SE, there could still be astronomy-based homework questions. I think we need to hash out a ...
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Attribution of sources used in questions and answers
Any and all sources, particularly when we are quoting from another website, journal article, book etc. must be properly attributed to the source.
Attributions can take the following forms (and folks ...
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