# Talk:Astronomy

When you compare this article to other high-level summaries such as chemistry, geology or physics, I think you can see a need for more detail. For example, there is very little discussion of planet types, brown dwarfs, circumstellar disks, binary- or multiple-star systems, variable stars, interacting stars, and star clusters. There's no mention of galaxy types or interacting galaxies. Praemonitus (talk) 02:13, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Two things here: 1) make any additions brief, the account must be short. Each of the things you mention has its own article. 2) we must not conflate the science with its object of study ('the stars', ie the universe). Medicine and Botany are sciences; they study Disease and Plants, which are separate articles and should not be repeated in the articles about the sciences. Similarly here, we do not need to talk about all the kinds of astronomical object, all the components of the universe, as that is not the science of Astronomy but the object of its study. Finally, you compared other articles; they too may have conflated subject with object, which does not mean we should follow them. So perhaps you don't need to add as much as you thought: perhaps nothing. The 'History' chapter is a grey area, as it necessarily covers discoveries, which are both subject and object in character. Chiswick Chap (talk) 03:33, 10 October 2025 (UTC)