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Summary

Newsgroup browsers interested in the discussion of astronomy may wish to visit the group sci.astro where heated debates both academic and casual in nature occur with frequency. The astronomers and astronomy fans of sci.astro use the newsgroup to link to and comment on astronomy articles of interest, contemplate recent academic astronomy research, ask for answers to astronomy questions or entreat the community for help, call attention to conventions and other events, share photographs, joke about science fiction, speculate about the outcome of astrological events, and just converse with the newsgroup community. The sci.astro* FAQ can be found at http://sciastro.astronomy.net/ and is a good starting point for people unfamiliar with newsgroups or astronomy. This FAQ also lists other astronomy related newsgroups and other astronomy resources which might be compelling to astronomy buffs. The sci.astro Usenet group is an appropriate place to post topics which do not specifically fit into the other sci.astro* groups.