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Questions tagged [resource-request]

Questions asking "What is a good book about X?" or more generally, "What should I read to learn about X?", typically where there is not a single authoritative reference. Also requests for multimedia, like video lectures.

Questions asking "What is a good book about X?" or more generally, "What should I read to learn about X?", typically where there is not a single authoritative reference. Also requests for multimedia, like video lectures.

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Any book on `How do they know it (in Astronomy)`?

I am reading my college/undergraduate level astronomy textbook. It has lots of ínfomation but every page raises a similar question in my mind: "How do they know it?". It starts from simple things like radius of Earth, other planets, masses,…
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Astronomy Olympiad Books

I'd like to one day take the Astronomy Olympiad, however I'm at a loss to know where to begin. As it currently stands I have no experience whatsoever with Astronomy. If there are people here with some expertise on the matter, I'd like to know what…
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Is there any conferences/symposiums/workshops/schools aggregator service?

I'm looking for a conference/etc.. for next year and I've found that this information is very much scattered about. One almost has to know beforehand the existence of a given conference/etc.. because otherwise it is almost impossible to find it. Is…
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