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Questions tagged [astronomy]
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Is the pale blue dot Earth?
Is the pale blue dot Earth in the image taken by Voyager? What I'm wondering is, why is there no other thing visible in the frame(like sun, other planets etc.,). How is the camera able to capture only Earth ?
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Did all iron on Earth come from outer space?
According to the video 9 Shocking Facts from the Quran!
Iron is not natural to the Earth. It did not form on the Earth but came down to Earth from outer space. This may sound strange but it is true. Scientists have found that billions of years ago…
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Did the Indian Mathematician Aryabhata state that the earth was round and calculate diameter of earth
Aryabhata was a genius mathematician, no doubt. But there is also the books about astronomy supposedly written by him. It is believed by Indians that he stated that earth was round. He belonged to 476 AD.
The claims that state what Aryabhata stated…
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Did Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz claim the earth is flat?
According to various social media posts (eg one and two and google search shows many results with the meme), Ibn Baz said the following in 1993:
Transcript:
"The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheis deserving of punishment" -…
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Does the 'super-moon' have a measurable effect on probability and magnitude of earthquakes?
On the 14th of November 2016, the moon is both full, and is on its closest approach to Earth, causing its largest appearance size until 2033. Citation This large appearance gives it the 'super-moon' name.
On the 13th of November 2016, New Zealand…
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Do ancient Hindu texts predict the future expansion of the Sun?
This article on the Lovearth Network by Linda Johnsen, points out the correspondences between sacred Hindu texts and modern science.
One particular section captured my interest greatly (emphasis mine):
In fact the Puranas, encyclopedias of yogic…
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Do solar storms affect human behaviour?
The other day, I found the following claim that solar flares cause a great increase in human agressiveness:
Chizhevsky found after intense
research that the rise and fall of
solar activity—interacting with the
earth's magnetic field—causes…
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Did the Dogon tribes discover "Trans-Pluto"?
The performance artist Marina Abramović has said the following in a forum at the New York Public Library:
In Africa you have Dogon tribes who worship Trans-Pluto, which is you know a small satellite around Pluto, which had been developed only maybe…
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Would we see a doomsday asteroid beforehand?
Forbes : We Probably Wouldn't Even See A Doomsday Asteroid Until It Was Too Late
[...] So how much warning will we really have if an asteroid is about to hit Earth? The answer is pretty grim.
With so many of even the larger Near Earth Objects…
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Was the 2017 solar eclipse the most-observed in history?
Several news sources, such as The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, have claimed that the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 is the "most-observed in history".
It was the most-observed and most-photographed eclipse in history, with many…
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Did Stephen Hawking say that blackholes don't exist?
According to this article and this one, the theory about black holes is all false.
A while ago, Indian astrophysicist Abhas Mitra studied and discovered that black holes are not what they were thought to be. It doesn’t succumb anything that’s…
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Do solar eclipses cause harm to pregnant women?
There are so many articles in the internet that say going out during a solar eclipse causes harm to pregnant women. Is this claim true? Why did this myth come in the first place?
This is from a BBC article.
One has it that if a pregnant woman goes…
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Did an asteroid impact in 2000 cause widespread power outages in Yukon, Canada?
A number of sources on the Internet claim that an asteroid impact in 2000 caused widespread power outages in Yukon, Canada. For example, according to the German-language Wikipedia page for the small town of Atlin in British Columbia (just south of…
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Does a lack of radiation shadows disprove the Big Bang Theory?
This article from Creation Magazine argues that:
If the big bang were true, the light from the fireball should cast
shadows in the foreground of all galaxy clusters.
It uses some 2006 findings about Cosmic Microwave Background radiation to argue…
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Is the chance of dying from a car accident less than dying from an astronomical event?
On page 62 of David Deutsch's excellent The Beginning of Infinity he writes:
a typical child born in the United States today is more likely to die
as a result of an astronomical event than a car accident
According to the National Safety Council…
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