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    Naming Stars: A Scam or Legitimate Organization?

    Nobody has the right to name star. There are companies who are offering to attach names to stars while making the designations seem official, providing a fancy certificate and directions for locating the newly named point of light. It's not hard to grasp the romantic or otherwise wondrous...
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    Undergrad Exoplanets seem all to have elliptical orbits

    Exoplanets are very difficult to detect because they don't emit any light of their own and are completely obscured by their extremely bright parent stars - normal telescope observation techniques cannot be used. In order to find exoplanets we use a variety of techniques to detect the effect they...
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    High School How Does Energy Transfer from Kinetic to Sound?

    Energy includes the electricity, heat and other types of energy used to power our homes, businesses, and transportation. It is a critical aspect of modern life. The scientific definition of energy is the ability to do work. Work is the transfer of energy to move an object a certain distance...