Questions tagged [specific-question]
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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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How to easily find & link to that amazingly helpful "How to find the positions of the planets and stars?" question with the big Community Wiki answer?
There's a question that goes something like:
How to find the positions of the planets and stars?
but that's not it exactly. One of the very early members of Astronomy SE started a Community Wiki ...
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Is "But really you would do better to ask your teacher. They are paid to answer this kind of question." in an answer the wrong message and anti-SE?
This answer to When can Moon occult Venus? feels to me to be the worst possible message. To me it looks like "you are wrong, you used the wrong number, here's the right number, and instead of ...
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Is insta-closing of potential duplicates always the best way? In low Q-rate sites? Is there something to be said for slow-closing or eventual closing?
Constellation search from April 22 2007 received three good answers before it was correctly closed as duplicate to our canonical Where can I find the positions of the planets, stars, moons, artificial ...
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What exactly count as a "hypothetical question"?
From help-center:
Questions that are purely hypothetical, for example a question such as 'Could a black hole destroy the universe' or 'What if our solar system had two suns' (however, feel free to ...
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Did this question get closed too quickly? Doesn't it actually have a good answer that's now impossible to post?
Why aren't Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor credited as the discoverers of gravitational waves in 1974? was first written a bit enthusiastically and I made some small edits summarized ...
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Do we need a tag for merging? I struggled to find something suitable for supermassive black hole mergers in galaxy collisions
I wanted to add a tag like black-hole-merger to How do we know that supermassive black holes can gain mass by means other than merging with other supermassive black ...
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Should we delete this closed, cross-posted Spaceflight question and get rid of the Kerbal Space Program tag at the same time?
Multiple aerobraking from 2016 was closed as off-topic but the OP reposted the same question in Space SE before it could be migrated.
It was very well received there and has several good answers, ...
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Strategy for getting the best answer(s) to my question about electron-multiplying CCDs?
How often are electron-multiplying CCDs used in telescope focal planes? Will Nancy Grace Roman be the first use in a space telescope? has been around almost two months but so far there are no answers ...
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Is it possible to recover the text from my polarization-dependent apodization question about CHIME?
Canada's CHIME radio telescope is a unique design which is discussed at some length in this answer. I a comment below the question there I link to a question (presumably of mine) titled How does ...
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Cavalier insta-closing of a new user's first question without even giving them a chance to respond?
A new user, just joined today, asked their first question.
When this happens I think of "be welcoming" before I think of "what can I close today?"
After only a few hours close as ...
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Shall we continue to agree that good SETI and extraterrestrial questions are on-topic? What about METI?
We currently have 19 questions tagged with seti One was recently closed and one has two close votes, and extra-terrestrial has 35 questions.
Going through these it seems that some good SETI and ...
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Why are other questions about messages to aliens on-topic but this one isn't? Was answer-blocking premature in this case?
These seem to be accepted by the community
Who or what will the Arecibo message reach? +6, 1 answer
Is broadcasting the location of Earth to potential extraterrestial civilization regulated? +5, 1 ...
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I need help rewording this unwieldily title
The current title is former title was How error bars on recent speed of gravity determination from gravitational waves and coincident gamma ray burst? Was Hubble constant in there? and it is explained ...
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Should this question be reopened or a new and improved version of the question posted?
The question Do stars come on like LEDs or wick lamps? was closed as duplicate of Timescale of ignition of a protostar?.
A comment says
Actually, it's not the same question, because this question ...
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Pile-on down voting without a single comment explaining why or how to edit, is this how a site should work? How close was my guess?
The question Why isn't Eris considered a planet despite being the body of dominant mass? received three down votes in its first three hours, but with none of the down voters leaving any clues as to ...
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Should I have asked this Space Telescope question here instead?
I posted Will the James Webb Space Telescope be able to see the Spitzer Space Telescope (assuming…)? in Space Exploration SE because the observer and observed are both spacecraft, but now I'm ...
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Should I change the title of my question to make the results more searchable?
My question Who is Sifter, and what is “the so-called Sifter flare” exists only because the linked BBC news item wrote "Sifter flare" where it should have written Seyfert flare.
The BBC News article ...
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Why was my comment deleted, and this this replacement comment okay?
I'd left a "lead by example" comment addressed to the user who wrote an extended comment about why they'd chosen to immediately close What would happen if a Sun-like star were to consume a Jupiter-...
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Should this question about touching event horizons really be closed as duplicate?
The question If two black hole event horizons overlap (touch) can they ever separate again? is well received with +32 upvotes currently and has two well received answers with +32 and +24 votes as well....
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What gives with all these comments about "too many images" in some of my posts?
This comment:
...the rest (the "fluff" actually makes it harder to read your post. This is definitely one of those times when adding pictures really detracts from the answer.
in regards to ...
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Are questions about phenomenon only observed in certain YouTube channels on-topic?
The question What phenomenon causes “lunar waves”? links to YouTube videos posted by individual contributors, one laments being ignored by the scientific community.
The comment exchange is extensive ...
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Why was this answer deleted? Is it possible to re-open and this link added to it?
This answer (viewable to those with rep > 10k on "alpha sites", 2k on beta) to the question Which star did Uranus occult in 1977 when the planet's rings were discovered? seems useful. The author never ...
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Am I a sea lion?
I've been told that I am sealioning.
From my perspective this answer is general screen shots and a bit of block quoted text tangentially related to the topic, but in no way addresses the question. ...
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I can't find this site's "homework policy" or find out how "suspected homework question askers" should be treated
Similar to what I described in another meta post I've just seen a first time user become a "suspect" and discussed in the third person like they'd broken some rule, rather than have someone ...
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Are questions about installing astronomy-related python packages on topic?
In particular, PyRAF is a tool for analyzing spectra. Aside from its documentation there are few online resources about it, and no question and answer sites for it. Can the Astronomy Stack Exchange ...
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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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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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Can I ask about earth-like planets?
I have seen that there are no views for my question about earth-like planets. So I wanted to ask here on meta that whether I can ask question about this or not.
Earth-like is absolutely astronomy, is ...
