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High School Contradictions in the Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts
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High School Is it a meteor or a meteorite when it makes moonfall?
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High School Lunar Orbit Issues & Lunar Clocks
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High School Is this a coincidence?... (distances between planets)
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High School NASA Data Site Down
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High School Looking for info about the Sombrero Galaxy
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High School Gravitational effects of a small black hole passing your body
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High School 3I/ATLAS, Interstellar Comet
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High School Help with the protocol for accurately recording an orbit for the IAU
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High School Star like object travels in a zigzagging pattern relative to other stars
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High School Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1% risk of a multi-megaton impact in 2032 (now ruled out)
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High School Why Does Titan Have an Atmosphere While Other Large Moons Don't?
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High School Venus and Jupiter Conjunction
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High School Looking for a list of astronomy collaborations
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High School Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets?
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High School Simulating the Universe's First Stars - The Population III Stars
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High School Feasibility of Sending a Radio Signal Detectable from a Neighboring Star
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High School How Can Interstellar Asteroids Be Analyzed Using Orbital Mechanics Equations?
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High School Where can I find easy-to-understand GAIA exoplanet data?
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High School Sun's peak wavelengths and chlorophyll's green colour
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High School How well do we understand the formation of population III stars?
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High School Strange spiral structure in Oort Cloud, outer Solar System
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High School Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system
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High School What Factors Influence the Survival and Growth of Accreting Bodies in Space?
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High School Trying to understand orbiting objects in space
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High School Colliding Gas Cloud to form a Star
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High School What has space exploration done for me as an individual?
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High School Confusion regarding black hole spin
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High School First ever recorded planetary engulfment
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High School Does Sun cross planes of all binary stars?
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High School What is dark matter?
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High School Is the Gaia Telescope's Shutdown Impacting Our Ability to Map the Milky Way?
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High School How Can Black Holes Vary in Size if They Are Singularities?
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High School CNO Cycle
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High School Possible explanations for meteor like observations?
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High School I Need Help on Understanding Some Basic Astrophysics / Sand Clock Universe
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High School Brightness of different layers of the Sun
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High School Atmospheric refraction and "rainbow"
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High School Analogue Black Holes: Disposal?
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High School Question: Orbital mechanics of a binary star system
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High School More scope refurbishments or start new?
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High School Help w/ repairing/refurbishing an equatorial mount
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High School Does my theory about black holes make sense ?
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High School Considering a budget observatory
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High School What If We Could See the Past by Placing a Mirror on the Sun?
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High School Popular physics - The Nebra disk
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High School Can a thunderstorm affect a satellite in low earth orbit?
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High School Can nature do this in the night sky?
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High School Predicting frequency of Earthlike planets and systems
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High School Neutron star 4U 1820-30 spins at 716 revolutions per second
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High School Looking for Axions in Neutron Stars
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High School Optimizing Exposure Times: Balancing Efficiency and Image Quality
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High School Strange cosmic particles in my detector
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High School Variation of Apparent Luminosity with Distance
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High School The Earth is upgrading with a second moon
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High School Asteroid 2024 RW1 - entered Earth's atmosphere over Luzon, Philippines
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High School Will we ever communicate with extraterrestial life in a reasonable time frame?
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High School What Are the Mysterious Zig Zagging 'Stars' in the Night Sky?
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High School Temperature difference between Venus and Mercury
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High School Asteroid Dimorphous easier to move because it's made up of rubble?
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High School Interstellar navigation to Proxima B with an unmanned probe
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High School Questions about dark matter/energy
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High School Why is the CNO Cycle considered catalytic in stellar nucleosynthesis?
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High School Is the Universe older than we think?
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High School Is the Sun's Magnetic Field About to Flip?
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High School Question about the Silicon-burning Process beyond iron
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High School A question regarding Heliocentric Latitude
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High School Dark Energy: Are We All Missing The Obvious?
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High School Asteroid 2024 BX1 entered Earth's atmosphere over Germany 21 Jan 2024
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High School Are some objects in the night sky just older images of other objects?
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High School Question about Neon-burning Process
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High School U.S. Solar Eclipses - Oct. 14, 2023 (Annular) & Apr. 08, 2024 (Total)
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High School NASA names asteroid "Hossi" after Sabine Hossenfelder
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High School Solar Wind Particles, - reaching into Earth's magnetic field?
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High School What Are Quasi-Moons and How Do They Orbit Earth and the Sun?
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High School How Do Radars in Space Prevent Signal Dispersion and Maintain Target Accuracy?
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High School Recommendations for International Research Competitions
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High School How to use the Binary Mass Function for exoplanets?
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High School What is the actual shape of black holes?
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High School Things to try while watching the solar eclipse
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High School How black hole Sgr-A* Was Found
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High School TV Series: 3 Body Problem - affects gravitational force?
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High School Terminology for motion in the solar system, ecliptic maybe?
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High School Layman's summary of water telescope experiments
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High School Photographing a solar eclipse with a smartphone (safely)
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High School Why isn't there an effort to name non-stellar celestial objects?
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High School Rock Found in Field Turns Out to Be 4.6GY Old Meteorite
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High School How Is Solar Wind Temperature Measured?
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High School What is the difference between a rocky planet's core and the Sun's core
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High School Can Spacetime be Torn According to Quantum Theory of Gravity?
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High School How did ancient astronomers track changes in positions of stars?
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High School Did I Capture Sunspots in My Summer Sunset Timelapse?
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High School What Does the Astro Physics Equation from Lewis Season 8 Episode 2 Mean?
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High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space?
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High School Is the barycentre of the Pluto - Charon system also the L1 point?
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High School Debunking Bat and Skull Nebulae fakery
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High School How would physics change if Planet 9 were a primordial black hole?
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High School Celestial plane orientation to the galactic core
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High School Nuclear Fusion in the Singularity
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High School How long is the start up time for a simulation of the solar system's formation?
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