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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 mig …
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Is the tag "measurement" a synonym of "observational-astronomy"?

These seem to be the questions tagged measurement that are about some kind of measuring. I think that for all except "measure the age of the universe" the observational-astronomy tag would be fine. I' …
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Synonym suggestion for [tag:tides]

I agree that tidal-forces concept is the driving force (literally) for ocean tides. Bodies have solid-tides as well, so we should either have three tags or one. I kind-of like the idea of having all t …
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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 a …
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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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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..." and saw no appropriate tag so …
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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 terminology: nomenclature 17 …
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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 question …
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Should a few more users vote to accept the csst tag wiki and excerpt quickly to ensure that ...

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 htt …
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Should a few more users vote to accept the csst tag wiki and excerpt quickly to ensure that ...

It's been done, thanks! https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/csst/info Questions regarding the CSST, aka the Chinese Space Station Telescope or Xuntian.
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