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Hey /sci/
I'm having troubles coming up with a topic for an astronomy research paper. It's only 3 pages long double-spaced so it can't be anything too complicated and my sources will have to be peer-reviewed so nothing too recent.Black holes, comets, and biographies have been forbidden by my prof.
Any ideas? Anything would be appreciated.

>> No.4445131

gravitational lensing
dense / compact stars (as in quark stars, neutron stars..)
speckle interferometry
the historic hanbury-brown twiss experiment to measure the size of sirius

>> No.4445134

Does it have to be about matter, or can the structure of space-time be a valid topic (I guess strictly speaking that would be cosmology, not astronomy)?

If so, you can discuss if a euclidian geometry of space and a finite and boundless universe are mutually exclusive concepts.

>> No.4445186

It's only a first year introductory course and it can be about anything but it does need to stay within the subject of astronomy.
I think I may do compact stars.
Thanks guys!