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17 questions linked to/from If it's possible, do we want to expand the scope of this site to include astronomy?
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Astronomy/Astrophyiscs related question here? [duplicate]
I'm doing Astronomy as a GCSE (at high/secondary school) and the teacher often goes above the course, and we (the students) often ask above what the course requires. But because its a GCSE there's a ...
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Would astronomy or astrophysics questions be considered on topic here? [duplicate]
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If it's possible, do we want to expand the scope of this site to include astronomy?
Astronomy.SE is closingl and this SE seems like it could be a natural home for a ...
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Full migration of Theoretical Physics SE questions to Physics SE
The younger brother "Theoretical Physics Stack Exchange" will abolished in a week or so,
http://meta.theoreticalphysics.stackexchange.com/questions/245/theoretical-physics-is-closing
due to the ...
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How should we go about retagging the salvaged posts?
UPDATE from D.Z.: I'm hijacking Manishearth's question to organize the tag cleanup effort, because most of the links are already posted here. Here's how this is going to work: whenever you have time ...
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Should we leave technical astronomy questions to Astronomy SE?
In 2012, when the first incarnation of Astronomy SE closed, the community at Physics SE felt compelled to give a home to astronomy questions and overwhelmingly voted to expand the scope of the site.
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How would you review your experiences at Physics Stack Exchange?
I am trying to get a holistic picture of the users' opinions on the site. Both positive and negative reviews are welcome. Being a reasonably broad topic, I will pose some specific questions. Feel free ...
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Change name to Physics&Astronomy?
Related: If it's possible, do we want to expand the scope of this site to include astronomy?
Related chat : http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/71/conversation/site-merging-chat-event
It ...
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Did Astronomy.SE reopen?
As far as I know Astronomy.SE merged into Physics.SE.
Recently I asked this astronomy related question: When Venus is the brightest when viewed from Earth?
Then I got a moderator comment that it ...
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What do you need to know about the upcoming mass migration?
NOTE: the migration is complete so this is now old news.
If you're reading this, you've probably heard that the Theoretical Physics and Astronomy sites, among others, will be shutting down this week. ...
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Chat session on merging sites
As you may have heard, Theoretical Physics and Astronomy will shortly be closing, and we are considering absorbing their questions into this site. We will soon be having a chat session (or perhaps ...
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Has our policy on astronomy questions changed now that Astronomy beta is open?
I noticed that this question was migrated to the new Astronomy beta site:
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/1845/
My understanding was that since the merger with the old astronomy site, all ...
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Are sophisticated Astrophysics Q's better asked in the Physics SE or Astronomy SE?
My interests primarily pertain to Astrophysics (and Astrochemistry). This subject appears to have two masters: Physics SE and Astronomy SE. How do I decide where to post, and how would you ...
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How are merges with other SEs executed?
There's currently a lot of talk about Physics.SE absorbing ThPhys.SE and Astro.SE. How is this carried out? Who decides, and where, on what policy is to be executed? Once it's decided, where, how ...
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What should be sent to astronomy.stackexchange?
Obviously, there's a lot of overlap between physics and astronomy. It would be good to have some guidelines for what goes where now that the astronomy beta is live.
Example questions for discussion:
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Let's refine our definition of what scope we import from Astronomy.SE
One thing after the recent astrobiology discussion was clear: our policy that "anything on topic on the old astrophysics site is on topic here" seems to be a bit vague and under question.
While the ...