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Graduate Why Are We Not Constantly Bombarded by Neutrinos from the Stars?
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Undergrad When Will Earth Be Tidelocked To The Sun?
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Graduate Why do stars with masses greater than 1.2M(sun) have convective cores?
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Is Our Universe Contained Inside One Atom?
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Graduate New to the board. Gravity questions
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Graduate Can Singularities Exist if Points in Space Are Finite?
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Graduate Was the Universe Not Perfectly Homogeneous at Photon-Decoupling?
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Undergrad Understanding Vapor Pressure Laws for Astrophysics
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Undergrad Effects of a decreased rotation veloctiy
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Undergrad What is the Temperature of an Electron?
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High School What does it mean the number after the stellar class? Magnitude?
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Graduate Can Planets Form Without Stars?
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Undergrad Sun formed on a core of a supernova?
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Undergrad Planet formation and star formation
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High School Sun's Mass Loss: How Much Is Lost Annually?
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Undergrad Gravitation attraction proportioned
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Graduate Refractive index of Martian atmosphere near surface
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Graduate Simulating globular clusters over blackholes with Fortran
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Graduate Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics Part 1
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Mars weather forecast: Clear skies, high of -30
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SK15075PEQ3-2- Diameter/Aperture: 150mm- Focal Length: 750mm-
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Graduate Reading my first Astrophys paper
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Graduate Superwind phase in stellar evolution
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Graduate Is the Pioneer Anomaly Evidence of Slower Movement Than Physics Predicts?
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Graduate Black Hole Questions - Answers to Your Queries
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Undergrad Black holes and magnetic fields?
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Graduate Xray flash warns of supernova explosion
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High School Radio waves are electromagnetic.Right?
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Graduate How Does Dark Matter Influence Our Understanding of Atomic Structure?
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Graduate Each planet's angle from it's argument of perihelion
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Graduate Newton: Is MOND the Answer to Dark Matter?
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Graduate Is There Evidence of an Opposite to Black Holes in the Universe?
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Undergrad Experience with the program 'Gaussfit'
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Graduate Object that we can observe where all 3 types of redshifts
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Undergrad Celestial body could to return tho the star for another perihelium?
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Undergrad Universal Warming: Other Inputs to Global Temperatures
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Graduate SOHO Observed Solar Inflow Events: What's the Explanation?
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Graduate A spectacular new way for stars to die
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Undergrad Why Don't Low Mass Stars Progress Beyond Helium Burning?
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Graduate Do Planets and Stars Have a Net Charge and How Can It Be Measured?
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Undergrad Transfer function to state space manually
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Graduate What happens when a laser is shot at a neutron star?
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Graduate Is there a limit to the size of a black hole?
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Undergrad Conservation of Energy: Wave Pool in Universe?
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Graduate Space-like intervals and the ergoregion
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Missing matter found in deep space
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Graduate What is the Best Way Forward in Astrophysics?
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Graduate Congrats to Turbo on A Catalogue of M51 type Galaxy Associations
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Graduate What Caused Pluto's Unusual Orbit and Formation of its Moons?
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Graduate What are the Unanswered Questions About Gamma Ray Particles?
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Undergrad Artificial Gravity: Methods & Benefits
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Undergrad Understanding Planetary Orbits: The Role of Gravitational Force and Rotation
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High School How do we know the Sun orbits the Galaxy?
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Graduate Stellar Evolution: After Hydrogen Exhaustion
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Graduate Polishing 200mm f6 Mirrors | Middle TN Advice
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Astronomy Exercises - Get Help Here!
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High School Can We Overcome Mars' Harsh Conditions for Human Habitation?
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High School Are Our Atoms Stardust or Nuclear Waste?
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Undergrad Aerospace Engineering program at Texas A&M
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Graduate Definition of Mass in Vacuum of Space
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Graduate Do black holes create antimatter from matter?
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Graduate Can Electrons Propel Spacecraft to Near Light-Speed?
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Graduate Empty Space Just a quick thought you might enjoy.
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High School Is There Really No Gravity in Space?
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Stargazing Telescope Advice: Get Good Views for a Cheap Price
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Undergrad Can the Universe's Shape Be Tested Like a Balloon?
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High School Could light be a media for transport?
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Undergrad What caused the disappearance of Mars's atmosphere and surface water?
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Undergrad Orbit of Comet 17P Holmes - equations
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Graduate Unraveling the Moon's Motion Coincidence: A Scientific Inquiry
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Undergrad Mass and Traveling at the Speed of Light
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Undergrad Is 1 e33 kg the Minimum Mass of a Black Hole?
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Undergrad Parsecs, trigonometric parallax and light years
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Undergrad The red shift - what does it indicate?
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Graduate Closest distance between two conics (ellipse,hyp.,par.)
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Graduate How to Calculate Earth’s Number Density: Iron vs Proton Mass Method
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Graduate Does the Article Debunk the Big Bang Theory?
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Graduate The Impact of Solar Mass Loss on Earth's Orbit
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Undergrad How do we know that the universe expands?
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High School Have you heard anything about AstroTech's low-cost Ritchey-Chrétien scopes?
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High School What is the speed of the moon's motion?
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Undergrad When is the next 13.00 Local Sidereal Time for a UK observer?
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Graduate Accelerating Universe,rate Of Acc Data Needed
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High School Magnetism of Planets: Do Other Have It?
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Graduate Assume that on earth we see something 1 billion light years away
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High School Uses of Asteroids: Incredible Potential for Space Exploration
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Building Paralleogram Mount/What is the name of this Part?
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Graduate Understanding the Metric of a Curved Sphere: Exploring the Formula
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Graduate Does the rotating black hole have a double or single photon sphere?
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Undergrad Does the Universe have a centre?
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Undergrad Why Is There Lightning on Venus?
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High School Why Are All Planets in the Same Plane?
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Undergrad How are mass calculations done in the weightless environment of space?
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Graduate Confirmation of any water on the moon?
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Undergrad How to Calculate the Flattening of a Rotating Planet?
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To scale animation of solar system
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Undergrad Why are we still looking at Mars?
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High School Is the earth the centre of the solar system?
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Graduate WMAP cold spot and void in the universe
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Where to Find Free Astrophysics Books Online?
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