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Undergrad Is it possible to create Orbital construction yards for Spaceships?
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Undergrad Pulsars vs. Brown Dwarves & Blue Giants: A Celestial Q&A
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Undergrad What happens when one's gravity attracts the other?
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Undergrad Applying Runge-Kutta(RK4) method to planetary velocity
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Undergrad Analemma Visualisation: 3D Graphics & Visualisations
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Undergrad Graph Right Ascension & Declination on Globe Graph
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Undergrad Altitude and Azimuth of the Sun on the Summer Solstice at the Tropic of Cancer
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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude of planets as seen from earth
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Undergrad Spectral and Luminosity Classification
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Undergrad Need Help Creating Moons for Fiction Story
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Undergrad Rotational Forces in Galaxies: Gas & Beyond
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Undergrad Why 24 hours for right ascension?
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Undergrad The ecliptic planes of the Milky Way and the solar system
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Undergrad Quick question with regards to self-study
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Undergrad Kepler's Law: Error Analysis & Mass of Earth
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Undergrad How do i find out how much energy a 20solar M BH would radiate given that
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Undergrad SPACE.com: Source of Mysterious Antimatter Found
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Undergrad Mirroring sun with parabolic dish
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Undergrad Is NASA prepared for a potential Mars-impacting asteroid?
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Undergrad Was the Dust Cloud Surrounding Proto-Earth Hot or Cold?
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Undergrad Why gas giants were created far from the Sun?
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Undergrad The Mysterious Plane of Planetary Orbits
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Undergrad Help me im in WAS and i need to know Delta V. .
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Undergrad Gliese 581c/d and their Red Sun?
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Undergrad Can you help me have a general view on cosmology and astrophysics?
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Undergrad How do we overcome the challenges of sending humans to the moon and Mars?
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Undergrad Why Is My Zhumell Dobsonian's Laser Collimator Missing the Secondary Mirror?
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Undergrad Why do gas planets not collapse?
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Undergrad Weins Displacement Law: Calculating Max Wavelength & Frequency
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Undergrad Are Black Holes Cold? - Ask an Astrophysicist
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Undergrad What Would a Nebula Look Like Close Up?
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Undergrad Photon radiation, how does it work?
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Undergrad How is Stefan's Constant Used in Understanding Black Hole Radiation?
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Undergrad Why Did Only Saturn Develop Magnificent Rings in Our Solar System?
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Undergrad Electric Currents in Planetary Magnetic Fields
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Undergrad GRBs & Supernova: What's the Connection?
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Undergrad Saturn Rings: Age and Permanent Feature
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Undergrad How Can We Study Exoplanets Using the Doppler Effect?
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Undergrad Can Saturn Keep Its Ring System If It Moves Close to the Sun?
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Undergrad Question about curvature of space
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Undergrad Exoplanet Hunting & Quantification: Tips & Resources
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Undergrad Is High Speed Space Travel Feasible with the Risk of Space Debris?
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Undergrad Sunrise on Uranus: How Often at S. Pole?
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Undergrad What is the Astronomical Definition of Eccentricity?
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Undergrad What if the Earth could be moved away from the Sun when it becomes a red giant
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Undergrad Occultation of star by epsilon ring of Uranus
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Undergrad Calculate Satellite Height Above Earth's Surface?
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Undergrad Intelligent Life: Questions & Considerations
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Undergrad Difficulty in understanding a Rocket travelling in space.
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Undergrad Understanding Black Holes: Comparing Mass Calculation Methods
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Undergrad Explore the Night Sky with an Online Planetarium at Astronomy-Page.com
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Undergrad Calculating Circumpolar Star Declination for Different Latitudes
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Undergrad Does Increasing Density Increase Gravity?
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Undergrad What Are the Latest Discoveries in the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets?
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Undergrad Types of Supernovae: How to Distinguish Them
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Undergrad Solar Wind Flux: Electron/Proton Count Reaching Earth
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Undergrad Weight dependent on planet size and rotation speed?
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Undergrad Does the Sun's fusion reaction produce neutrons or neutrinos?
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Undergrad Question about the obliquity of the ecliptic
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Undergrad What Happens in Black and White Holes?
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Undergrad How Much difference b2in theoritical and experimental astrophysics?
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Undergrad Albedo and reflected light from the moon
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Undergrad A Parallel Planet: Discovering Unseen Worlds
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Undergrad Gravitational lensing and Dark matter
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Undergrad The Mystery of Earth's Rotation & Revolution
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Undergrad Mercury: Why Doesn't it Vaporize Away?
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Undergrad So , we don't know how universe began?
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Undergrad Telescope Size and Distance: Do We Need Four Times the Diameter?
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Undergrad Developments in Space Exploration
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Undergrad Can the Speed of a Gamma Ray Burst Exceed the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad Is Earth's Orbit Shifting?
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Undergrad Limb Darkening Coefficients Calculation: Understanding Bandpass Selection
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Undergrad Moon Destruction: What Would Happen to Earth?
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Undergrad Space Vehicle Patent: Is Electromagnetic Propulsion Possible?
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Undergrad Has Anyone Used a FITS Library for Extracting Galaxy Coordinates in C++?
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Undergrad What is the capacitance of the sun?
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Undergrad How did the heavier elements form?
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Undergrad Angle viewed form erath between sun and planet.
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Undergrad What is Meinel System and OH Meinel Emission Bands?
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Undergrad Mean Orbital Separation Question
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Undergrad The First Sputnik: How Was Geocentric Orbit Achieved?
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Undergrad Moon's orbit & length of day/month
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Undergrad Airship Rotating Earth: Can it be Done?
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Undergrad Search for Astrophysics Objects in Comprehensive Database
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Undergrad Do Supernovae Emit Gamma Rays in All Directions?
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Undergrad Orbits: explicit r(t) and theta(t)
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Undergrad The Earthly Risk of Rogue Black Holes
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Undergrad What is the Role of Plasma in Solar Flares?
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Undergrad What is the significance of inverse meters in astronomy calculations?
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Undergrad Habiting Planets: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad White Dwarf GD 362 - signs of earthlike planets
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Undergrad What limits the ability to directly image distant objects with telescopes?
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Undergrad Moon Stopping Velocity & Impact Force: How Long Would It Take?
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Undergrad Problem with the theories about the Sun and the planets
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Undergrad How does the moon's gravity affect the orbit of the ISS?
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Undergrad Is Primary Focus Magnification the Same as Focal Distance Equivalent in Optics?
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Undergrad Question: Mass distribution in galaxies
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Undergrad Gamma Ray Bursts: Nature & Why they Last 2 Seconds
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Undergrad Spacetravel: t as a function of a and d
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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Origin & Mass Impact
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