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High School Are There Really Green Stars in Our Universe?
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High School Angular Momentum: Keeping Planets on their Orbit
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High School What causes the strange gravity effects on the Moon?
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High School Gravitation on Planets: Effects on Life
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High School Why Do Some Months Have 30 or 31 Days While February Has 28?
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High School Where is the zodiac located in the universe?
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High School Light Speed and Voyager Space Probes: A Reflection
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High School Why Did Ancient Astronomers Believe the Earth Was Round?
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High School Do stars actually exist beyond our solar system?
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High School Would a human be able to see a nebula if they were close enough?
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High School Is the Galactic Alignment Real or a Myth?
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High School Why Do Planets Maintain Distance Despite Gravitational Attraction?
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Light From Stars
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High School Why Can't Objects Exceed the Speed of Light in Space?
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High School Stars from outside the atmosphere
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High School Solar Flare Danger: Worst Damages & Preparing for X Class
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High School What type of athmosphere would a planet with red and pink trees have
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High School Could Harvesting Materials from the Solar System Affect Earth's Orbit?
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High School Geosynchronous vs geo-stable orbit?
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High School When do neutron stars, supernovas, and pulsars form during a star's life?
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High School Can You Outrace the Sun? Debating the Possibility and Necessary Speed in MPH
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High School Mysterious Lunar Ring in the French Alps
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High School When does the Sun sets down at 71°11'
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High School Sun's Magnetic Pole Reversal & Current Location: North or South?
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High School Is the Universe Really Expanding?
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High School Moon Rings: Blue, Yellow & Red - Explanation?
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High School Do Planets Spin in the Same Direction They Orbit?
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High School What classes do I need to become an astronomer?
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High School Is a Black Hole One-Sided or a Spherical Entity?
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High School How Do Astronomers Count the Number of Stars in the Sky?
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High School Does the Tidal Effect Cause Planets to Move Away from the Sun?
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High School Mass & Emittance: Does Heat Affect Mass?
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High School Is Earth's Rotation Really Slowing Down?
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High School Are the planets where we belive these to be
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High School Why is the Moon drifting away from Earth?
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High School Is Meade LX200 10 a Good Deal for Your CCD Scope?
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High School Length of Days: Past vs. Present - Comparing Rotation Speeds
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High School Do all planets have magnetospheres?
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Planetary Motion: Mercury & Pluto
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High School THE CENTER of The Milky Way Galaxy
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High School Asteroids, Meteorites and Meteors: The Differences Explained
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High School Why Does the Moon & Earth Have Different Relationships with the Sun?
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High School Big Bang Theory: Can It Really Explain the Universe?
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High School Earth's Rotation Speed: Would We Notice?
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High School How much of space has humanity observed?
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High School Space: Endless or Finite? The Surprising Impact on Shape and Structure
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High School What Caused Jupiter to Lose a Stripe?
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High School Is it true that gravitation on the full moon day is less than other days?
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High School Do sattelites orbit with the rotation of the earth?
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High School Will a black hole revolve around a non-black hole object with greater mass?
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High School How Much Would Your Weight Change on the Surface of the Sun?
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High School Why Do Things Spin? Solar Systems, Planets, Galaxies
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High School Do Astronauts See the Earth Spin?
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High School How Do I Find Distance Using Redshift?
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High School Arcsecond size of the Andromeda Galaxy
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High School A strange informataion is ot realy
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High School Questions About Space: Get Answers Here
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High School What is the size of a black hole?
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High School Why are Stars Not Visible in Astronaut Photos?
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High School Developed an interest in, Astronomy? Astrophysics?
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High School Can You Breathe in Space While Rockets Fire?
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High School Moon's Lack of Atmos. vs Titan's Abundance
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High School Measurements between sun and earth
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High School Relative locations of earth, sun, moon
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High School I got a Zhumell Z8 Dobsonian. The stock lens is decent
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High School Why Doesn't the Moon's Gravitational Pull Affect Lakes or Cups of Water?
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High School The big bang theory and why i think its wrong
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High School Clarification about gravity and floating in space
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High School What was earth like 200,000 years ago?
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High School How much closer was the Moon say 200,000 years ago?
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High School Why is the Earth hotter in July and cooler in January?
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High School Unveiling the Mysterious 'Black Star': New Astronomical Discovery
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High School What Does Our Solar System Rotate Around?
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High School Picturing Galaxies: How We Capture Outer Space
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High School Protecting Telescopes from High Humidity: A Practical Solution?
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High School Could Traveling Against the Earth's Rotation Cause a Sunset-Sunrise Reversal?
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High School Astronomy and astrophysics, are they the same?
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High School Explaining Black Holes to 5th Graders
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High School How do we know what the sun is made of?
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High School Relationship between color of stars and their heat intensitiy
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High School All the bodies in our solar system alligns in one line?
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High School The historical quest for the farthest astrononomical object. Can anyone help me?
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High School Graphs of galaxy rotation curves?
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High School Is Astrobiology a Legitimate Scientific Field?
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High School How To measure Moon Orbital Velocity ?
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High School Sun Expansion: What Would Humans Do?
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High School Observing Objects at 45N 90W: Simple Astronomy Question
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High School How Can Beginners Learn About Black Holes and Space?
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High School Does Saturn Have a Hexagon on it?
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High School Perceiving the expansion of the universe in daily life
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High School Universal Gravitation: Does It Apply to Every Particle in the Universe?
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High School Does the strength of tides change between new moon and full moon?
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High School How did we photograph the universe?
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High School What do you mean by 'multi-dimensional'?
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High School Compare Images of 7x50, 15x70 & 25x100 Binoculars Pointed at Objects in Space
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High School Hubble's Staircase Effect: What Caused It and How Was It Fixed?
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High School Which Would Reach Pluto First: Light or Stick Movement?
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High School The Moon moves away from the earth - Is the theory correct ?
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High School Question: what exactly is a singularity?
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High School Does the moon cause the flux and reflux of the tides?
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