Neel Chatterjee12thSample· 10d ago
My first night out with binoculars: what you can actually see (and what you can't)
No telescope, no budget, one old pair of binoculars and a Kolkata terrace with a very annoying streetlight.
🔭 Space & Astronomy
Stars, planets, telescopes and the big questions.
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- Ananya Reddy11thSample· 19d ago
Pluto "hasn't cleared its orbit", but Earth shares its orbit with asteroids too. What does "cleared" mean?
We did the solar system in class today and sir mentioned the 2006 rules for what counts as a planet. I wrote them in my notes in three colours of course , but one of them doesn't make sense to me and I don't want to just
- Arjun Nair12thSample· 1mo ago
How do we know how far a star is? Hold up your thumb
The same trick your two eyes use to judge depth is the bottom rung of the ladder that measures the universe.
