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High School Can Dark Matter Explain Black Holes and the Mysterious Planet-Nine?
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High School How Difficult Will It Be to Remove Mars from the Planetary Protection Treaty?
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High School Why does Sirius A blink in many colors?
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High School Everything is in motion, what is not?
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High School Can Planets Thrive in Binary Star Systems?
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High School Formation of Stars: Questions on Range & Equilibrium
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High School Is this Saturn photo real or an artist's rendition?
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High School Could Jet Engines Be Used for Space Travel?
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High School Where Can I Find a Barycentric Solar System Ephemeris?
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High School Visibility of Ceres, Uranus, and Neptune with $60 binoculars
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High School What Color Are Asteroids? Classification and Composition Explained
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High School On the post-main-sequence evolution
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High School Is the universe expanding faster than expected
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High School Types of Supernovae: Explanations & Differences
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High School Transit of newly discovered exoplanet of Proxima centuri
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High School What is the heaviest element that a star will fuse?
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High School What would happen if the Moon wasn't there?
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High School How does Ram pressure kill galaxies
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High School Speed of light within a black hole
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High School Venus -- a more attractive target than Mars for human colonization?
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High School Are There Constellations with Stars Close to Each Other?
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High School Is the Universe Inside a Black Hole?
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High School Is the Big Bang Just an Event in an Existing Space/Time Fabric?
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High School Relating Gravitational Field Strength and Mass
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High School How would I calculate how much light is being bent in a certain area?
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High School Top 3 candidates in our solar system to host microbial life from Earth
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High School Why do black holes have infinite density, mass, and gravity?
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High School Keeping Time on Mars: A New Calendar System?
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High School Hot Jupiters & Kepler's Laws: Does it Violate?
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High School Is Our Brain Limiting Our Understanding of the Universe?
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High School New star in the skies -- Plausible?
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High School Problems With a Terraformed Moon -- Maybe?
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High School Significance of a planet's "surface gravity"
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High School Move vehicle in space by rail structure systema
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High School Confused about traveling at the speed of light
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High School Is the Earth in its original orbit?
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High School B Calculating the age of the universe with the Hubble constant
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High School Black Holes & Time: How Do We Observe Movement?
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High School What is your favorite planet of the solar system?
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High School If Earth moves at 500,000 mph then why don't satellites stay behind?
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High School Does dark matter make black holes bigger?
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High School Are OH molecules in masers ionized?
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High School Are asteroids found by the light they reflect?
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High School Determining the transition frequency
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High School What would happen if 6 black holes surrounded a planet?
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High School Could a black hole be hiding inside a neutron star?
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High School Answers to Beginner Questions about Black Hole Event Horizons
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High School Can Orbiting Bodies Slow Down Over Time?
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High School Black Holes & Time: A Closer Look
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High School Temperature in the space between planets of our solar system?
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High School Spiral Galaxies: Why Do Arms Bifurcate & What's Moving In/Out?
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High School Discussing Juno/JunoCam Mission and Jupiter Data
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High School Dark matter interacts with visible matter via gravity
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High School Is a Black Hole Really Just a Spherical Structure?
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High School Living on Titan: A New World for Humans?
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High School Action and reaction of a rocket in space.
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High School Is the effect of gravity limited by distance?
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High School Are all galaxies moving away from the Milky Way?
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High School Thickness & Distance of Milky Way at Sun's Location
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High School Are black holes white or monochromatic?
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High School Height measurement on other planets
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High School Luminosity and neutrino questions
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High School Re-evaluating Dark Matter and Kepler's Law in Spiral Galaxies
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High School Retrograde star orbits in the Milky Way
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High School Quantisation of light and Doppler effect
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High School Will Voyager 2 Pass Sirius While Orbiting the Milky Way?
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High School Weird quantum property of empty space?
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High School The Semi-Major Axis of Binary Stars
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High School Can we use technology to view the past through stars?
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High School Neutron Stars and Angular Momentum
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High School Trying to study the major constellations
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High School Mass of Sun/stars (elemental/molecular vs. plasma)
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High School So I don't understand moon eclipses
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High School Creating Universe from "Nothing": Astrophysicists Debate
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High School What is the Hoyle State of Carbon and How Does it Contribute to Star Fusion?
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High School Progress direction of the Aldebaran occultation by the moon
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High School Can Anything Survive a Black Hole's Gravitational Pull?
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High School How do we study space-time singularities?
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High School Mars' Global Sandstorm: Causes and Effects
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High School Huge amounts of water ice found on Mars
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High School How to measure the amount of gravitational lensing?
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High School If energy is created with expansion and it has no limit....?
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High School Why gas clouds collapse if the forces are conservative?
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High School If an object runs an infinite distance in universe....?
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High School Flatlanders in the 3rd dimension "Hyperspace"
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High School When are we "trailing" the Sun in its galactic revolution?
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High School Rosetta's comet mission discussion thread
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High School Methods of accelerating in space?
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High School How Are Images of Gravity Dips in Space Created Without a Sense of Direction?
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High School Why the Milky Way shows band in all-sky energy scans
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High School How could we "reactivate" Mars' magnetic field?
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High School Why do areas near the poles experience semidiurnal tides?
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High School Prediction: A Red Nova May Rival Polaris in 2022
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High School Terraforming Venus: Why Nobody Discusses It?
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High School MARVELS Discovery: 1 Giant Planet & 'Failed Star' Found
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High School Do Stars Experience Precession Like Our Sun?
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High School Need confirmation of planetary distances
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High School Line absorption spectrum and stars
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High School Is a lunar space elevator a realistic proposition?
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High School Uranus May Have Two Dark Unseen Moons
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