Questions tagged [tags]
The tags tag has no usage guidance.
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What is the best way to tag questions about Xuntian, the Chinese Survey Space Telescope?
What is the best tag for China's Xuntian, i.e. the Chinese Survey Space Telescope?
It's schedule to be launched this year in the Tiangong space station orbit (but phased away from it) and the ...
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Do we need the [nomenclature] and [naming] and [terminology] tags?
The new question Is "monochromatic source" different than "monochromator" in astronomical instrumentation? included a nomenclature tag I hadn't seen before, I usually use ...
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An [ultraviolet] tag to go with our [gamma-rays], [x-ray], [visible-light], [infrared], and [radio] tags?
We have these electromagnetic tags
gamma-rays 11 questions
The gamma-rays tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?
x-ray 36 questions
Questions regarding the second-shortest ...
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The tags for cosmic microwave background need merging
It seems like there are two tags referring to the cosmic microwave background, cmb and cosmic-microwave-background.
Should they be merged?
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Can we merge tags "tno" and "trans-neptunian-object"?
trans-neptunian-object: Questions about objects orbiting the Sun with an average distance greater than that of Neptune. [24 questions]
tno: A Trans-Neptunian object is any minor planet in the Solar ...
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One tag for LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA or three, or none?
We have
ligo: 14 questions
Questions about the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a large-scale physics experiment and observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves.
but ...
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Need help with a proper Sunyaev-Zeldovich-effect tag
When posting Why does the first measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect from ALMA show a temperature decrease and not an increase at the cluster? I tried to add a Sunyaev-Zeldovich-...
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Do we have enough tags to "span the space" of astronomical eclipses and transits? Is something missing or needs changing?
We have
solar-eclipse 143 questions
Questions about the complete or partial blocking of the sun by the moon.
and
lunar-eclipse 60 questions
Questions regarding an event where the Earth goes ...
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Removing the [ar] tag?
This question used to have a tag called ar. I'm assuming this was a mistake, so I edited it out of the tags. Would it be possible to remove it?
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Should we add the eyepiece tag to all questions that are about eyepieces? Or instead delete it since tagging would be a hopeless, quixotic quest?
I've just asked How does eyepiece exit pupil diameter affect image clarity and viewing experience? and added the eyepiece tag. It turns out this is only the 2nd question to use this tag, the first was ...
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Should the E-ELT tag get "sent to the cornfield" and replaced by extremely-large-telescope?
When tagging What two "little observatories" run by a university in Chile and "by Germans" are near the future site of the Extremely Large Observatory? I typed "extre..." ...
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Why does SE hide the "stellar-dynamics" tag from us when we type "stella..." and leave a blank spot instead? ("stellar..." behaves differently)
When looking for the stellar-dynamics tag in the autocomplete box after stellar-astrophysics had been selected, the suggested tags concealed it from me for "stell..." and "stella...&...
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Is there a useful distinction between the DIY and the telescope-making tags? Should they be somehow merged?
telescope-making has 16 questions starting from 2015
diy has 3 4 questions starting from 2014. I just added one that mentions a Raspbery Pi project.
Neither tag has any usage guidance!
A quick check ...
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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 a few more users vote to accept the csst tag wiki and excerpt quickly to ensure that nobody else follows my lead and rejects them?
I just saw edits for the wiki and wiki excerpt for the newly coined csst tag that was first added to Details on the telescope(s) on the Chinese Space Station 天和
I reflexively rejected these edits
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Is it a good idea to create a much-needed tag and retag (almost) every post related to it to include this tag?
Recently, I created the tag hr-diagram as there are many questions regarding it. I went ahead and edited a few questions to include this new tag. Would it be a good idea to retag all the 82 (and ...
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Difference between resource and reference-request tags?
Resource Recommendations to systematically develop a foundation via Self study in Astrophysics/Astronomy? had the resource (25 questions) tag which I didn't see. Instead I just added the reference-...
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What exactly are the tags [ebinary-star] and [tbinary-star]?
This question was recently edited to include a tag called tbinary-star, while the original binary-star was removed. Another question had its binary-star replaced by a tag called ebinary-star. What ...
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Do we need a tag [agn] or is [active-galaxy] enough?
I was a bit suprised that agn did not exist, and neither does active-galactic-nucleus, and I just created it because a search showed 72 results (as of 2021-04-15). On second thought, it is probably a ...
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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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Should we have an observation-campaign tag and what is good usage advice for it?
I've just asked Is there a collection or list of all planned observations of 99942 Apophis during it's close pass to Earth? and added a new observation-campaign tag to it.
We have many questions ...
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Towards defining the tags "electromagnetic-spectrum" and "wavelength"
I have yet another question about tags, this time it is about electromagnetic-spectrum (with 7 questions as of February 18th, 2021) and wavelength (with 23 questions). The tags are different on ...
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High-energy-astrophysics vs. particles and other tags in the same field
This a follow-up discussion to high-energy-astrophysics tag usage guideline, could this be improved?
There are currently (February 17th, 2021) only 9 questions tagged particles, compared 22 questions ...
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high-energy-astrophysics tag usage guideline, could this be improved?
There is a proposed edit to provide users with the following guideline when choosing the high-energy-astrophysics tag. This is the message that would pop up when someone started typing "high-ener....
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What distinguishes the "nomenclature" from "definition"?
Can nomenclature and definition be regareded as synonyms?
Right now (February 16th, 2021), there are only 2 records tagged as nomenclature, and only 4 with tag definition. This is not many, I agree, ...
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Tag usage guidelines are being copy/pasted with WIkipedia definitions insensitive to astronomical context and unhelpful when needed most
There have been several tag Wiki and Wiki excerpt edits in the last half-day that appear to be copy/pasted from Wikipedia without regard to the astronomical context of the terms.
I've voted to reject ...
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Synonym suggestion for [tag:tides]
Currently (as of February 12, 2021), the yet undefined tag tides has only 27 occurences, which compares to the tag tidal-forces with 78 occurences. I suggest, that make tides a synonym of tidal-forces ...
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How to proceed with tags with only a single occurence?
What is the correct way of treating rare tags, say with a single occurence? I just figured out that tags without any occurrence are most likely synonyms (which is not obvious from the tag-overview ...
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Is the tag "measurement" a synonym of "observational-astronomy"?
I came across the rather rare (8 occurrences as of February 12, 2021) and yet undefined tag measurement which seems to be a synonym for the ubiquitous (728 times used) tag observational-astronomy.
Do ...
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What's the point of the tag "laws-of-physics"?
As mentioned previously, whenever I have time, I am trying to add descriptions to tags which are yet undefined. I came across the laws-of-physics tag which is ...
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Tags "planetary-atmosphere" vs. "atmosphere"?
While looking for tags without any definition (in order to suggest one), I came across the tag planetary-atmosphere vs. ...
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Tag synonym suggestion for planetary-science
I do not quite understand why we need the tag planetary-science since we have planet as widely used tag. To be quantitative: It is 37 agains 607 (as of February 11, 2021).
If we could all agree on ...
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Is a charged-coupled-devices tag okay? If so, what would be good usage guidance for it?
I've just added the new tag charge-coupled-devices to How often are electron-multiplying CCDs used in telescope focal planes? Will Nancy Grace Roman be the first use in a space telescope? since that's ...
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Tag definitions for solar-flare and solar-storm?
The solar-storm tag has 8 questions and no usage guidance.
The solar-flare tag has 32 questions and the following guidance:
Questions regarding a sudden brightness increase due to the release of ...
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What do folks think about adding (time-) dispersion and time-domain tags?
For Do ASKAP and ALMA have "fast dump" interferometric modes? Can they see and perhaps report Fast Radio Bursts in real time? I've created two new tags: [tag:] and [tag:].
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How to use the tags specific-tag and tagging tags here in meta? Do we need all of them?
I've tagged I think that we have no good tags for solar-system-evolution or asteroid-formation or asteroid-evolution. Should we? with tags, specific-tag and tagging because I don't know which ones to ...
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I think that we have no good tags for solar-system-evolution or asteroid-formation or asteroid-evolution. Should we?
The questions
What is the YORP effect exactly? Is it just the non-central component of the Yarkovsky effect?
Where have all the Vulcanoids gone?
(and there are likely other examples) that ask about ...
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Should the tags stellar-classification and spectral-type be merged?
We have two tags, spectral-type and stellar-classification. The former appears to be slightly more popular, and the latter appears to have been mostly used on questions about spectral types?
Do we ...
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Do we need separate tags for [habitable-zone] and [goldilocks-zone]?
We have separate tags for habitable-zone and goldilocks-zone — does it make sense to keep both of these?
Of the two, habitable-zone appears to be used more frequently, although its tag wiki entry does ...
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Do we need both ephemeris and ephemerides tags?
I just noticed that we we have both ephemeris (35 questions) and ephemerides (6 questions) tags.
I can't see how the six questions that have ephemerides need it, and I'm guessing that ephemeris is all ...
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When should [early-universe] end?
Do we want it to be equal to the definition at Wikipedia, i.e. ending with cmb?
Currently we have questions like these:
Will James Webb see Population III stars?
Characteristics of the first planets ...
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Is [space-travel] on topic here?
Is space-travel on topic for the site? To me it looks like a big red flag that the question actually belongs on Space Exploration, or in the more hypothetical cases Worldbuilding.
Looking at the ...
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Should the "naming" and "nomenclature" tags be merged?
We have both naming and nomenclature - does it make sense to have these as separate tags, or should we merge them? If so, which one would be preferred?
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Should we update definitions and remove the 100 GHz hard limits on radio astronomy related tags?
I just noticed that some of the following tag definitions include upper limits on frequency:
radio: Questions about the part of the electromagnetic spectrum between 10 MHz and 100 GHz.
radio-...
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Duplicate Sagittarius A* tags
We have tags for both sgr-a and sagittarius-a, which should presumably be merged. The actual usage of both of these tags shows they are both actually being applied to questions about Sagittarius A* ...
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Is TESS a sky-survey? Is the tag sufficiently broad for all kinds of surveys?
The sky-survey tag currently has 21 questions after I added it to Any plans for TESS after it finishes northern sky survey?
For background, Wikipedia's Astronomical survey says
An astronomical ...
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Spectroscopy Spectrometry Spectra and Spectrum tags; is there room for some consolidation?
Here are four related tags and their current question count:
spectroscopy (100) (101)
spectra (60)
spectrum (13)
spectrometry (10)
Here are three related questions about them:
As terms and as ...
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Strange problem creating sunspots tag & should we have a sunspots tag?
As was noted in comments below the question Is the longitude assigned to sunspots spherical or projected? it is impossible to create a sunspots tag.
Trying to do so results in the error message:
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Is the [ufo] tag on-topic for this site?
Is the [ufo] tag actually on-topic for this site? The help page discourages questions about satellites and notes we are not a UFO-reporting site. Most of the questions tagged with this are of the "...
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What is the difference between the "chemistry" and "astrochemistry" tags?
Both the chemistry and astrochemistry tags have over a dozen questions.
However there are only four questions that have both tags, and three of those are mine, probably in anticipation that they ...
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