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High School Degeneracy Pressure: Pauli Principle & Neutron Stars
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High School Hexagonal Craters: Airless Worlds & Moons Explored
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High School How Has the Calculation of Solar System Body SGPs Evolved Over Time?
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High School Why are impact craters predominantly circular?
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High School Time Dimensions: Astronomy & Beyond
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High School So what's your go-to method to locate M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)?
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High School Nodal Precession: Satellites Orbiting Earth Explained
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High School Spatial Expansion -- Coincidence?
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High School What would the planets look like in real life?
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High School Amazing Rings: Intersecting Stars Create Spectacular Gas Rings
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High School The value of the standard acceleration due to Earth's gravity
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High School Could a black hole just be a planet?
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High School Celestial mechanics: Why is my planet orbiting faster and faster?
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High School What does relativity say about wormholes?
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High School Effect of JWST mirror damage on final images
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High School Question about deep space pictures
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High School Can nuclear bomb(s) change trajectory of small black hole?
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High School SOFIA IR Observatory in the Southern Sky
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High School Mars Probe gets Windows 98 Update, after 19 years
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High School Where can I find information about Population III stars?
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High School Is it possible for a giant star to have a black hole inside it?
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High School How often do you re-acquire dark and bias frames?
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High School Is Stellina the Ultimate Telescope for Amateur Astronomers?
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High School Where Can I Find Accurate Planetary Event Data for an Astronomy Course?
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High School Has there been no update to Allen's Astrophysical Quantities since 1999?
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High School Evolution of planetary system around a white dwarf
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High School Sun contains more oxygen, silicon and neon than previously thought
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High School Derivation for Aphelion and Perihelion Distances
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High School What day/exact time does Sun start to move again? (1980 Winter Solstice)
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High School Scope Eyepiece diameter for old eyes
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High School Event Horizon Telescope, Milky Way supermassive black hole stream
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High School Which Way Do Planets in Our Galaxy Spin?
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High School Our Sun's position in the Milky Way Galaxy
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High School How does the Milky Way galaxy move in the local Group?
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High School Accelerating to a stop in the Milky Way Galaxy
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High School Would like to explore the Henry Draper catalogue of stars
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High School Mini spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
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High School First Interstellar Asteroid Found
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High School Can electromagnetic waves traverse wormholes?
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High School Is Language Barrier a Reason for Our Limited Understanding of Black Holes?
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High School Northern Lights Visible in Mid States Tonight
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High School Why combine the JWST data physically instead of digitally?
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High School Could anything heat back up the core of Mars?
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High School What happens to the Core of a main sequence star as additional mass is added?
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High School Is the Earth falling into the sun from gravity?
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High School The configuration of galaxies in space
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High School Different stars visible from northern and southern hemispheres
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High School Revealing Secrets of Distant Supernova DES16C2nm: 10.5 Billion Years Ago
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High School Light and the black matter (Dark Matter)
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High School Asteroid/Near Earth object mining
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High School Questions about Lagrange points in the Pluto / Charon system
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High School Alcyoneus Radio Galaxy: Myth or Reality? Discover the Truth Here!
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High School NGC 4590, more than 1,400 stars found in various evolutionary stages
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High School I wonder why massive objects slow down time
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High School Can the "Dark Energy" concept be wrong?
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High School Does the inertia of matter change in a black hole?
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High School How Can We Prove That Space is Expanding?
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High School Why is the Webb Space Telescope placed at L2?
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High School Chasing the Moon: Astronauts & Technology".
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High School An Ancient Solar Storm 9200 years ago is Cause for Concern
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High School The Colors of The Moon (Doppler Effect)
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High School Understand Bonnar-Ebert Model: Complement to Jeans Law?
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High School What is the mass distribution and rotation curve of galaxy IC1101?
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High School Lunar libration time lapse with real photographs?
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High School Propellantless Rocket: Unleashing the Power of Breit-Wheeler
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High School What If Universes Were Made of Antimatter?
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High School So, a black hole and an antimatter star bump into each other....
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High School Question about a horizontal sundial
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High School What do they mean when they say something is so many light years away?
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High School Could satellite be geo-stationary away from equatorial plane?
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High School Process of a sun changing into a white dwarf
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High School What is the Maximum Mass of a Neutron Star?
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High School Observational bias? Lack of massive black hole observations....
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High School Mass transfer between neutron stars in a binary pair
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High School Stars massive enough to evolve into black holes
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High School Name of projection to firmamentum (celestial sphere)
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High School Navigating To Another Star System
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High School Question re Webb telescope at L2
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High School Visit to Hayden Planaterium -- The projector is gone?
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High School Radiation Levels at Earth's Poles
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High School Acceleration of time due to entropy
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High School How long it takes the Earth to fall halfway to the Sun--ellipse method
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High School Delta-v from Lagrange points to lunar surface?
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High School Is there a way of creating placemarks in Stellarium?
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High School Question about the solar system and gravitational forces
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High School Pressure under the ice of Europa?
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High School Definition of Stellar Parallax from Alonso and Finn Volume 1
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High School How Sensitive Must SETI Arrays Be to Detect Extraterrestrial Signals?
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High School Some visuals for Size of Solar System, Galaxy, Universe
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High School Observing Orbital Mechanics from the 2nd Focus of Earth's Orbit
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High School Why was the Sun's output not as intense in the past?
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High School How can we watch BHs collide in a finite time?
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High School Star visible for longest time from Earth
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High School Do emission nebula glow because of ionised or excited electrons?
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High School Sun-Earth Encounter: Acceleration, Roche Limit, Rotation & More
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High School The Impact of Tidal Force on a Star's Magnetic Field and Supernova
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High School Does Gravitational Time Dilation Affect the Speed of Light in Outer Space?
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High School Biggest asteroid to pass Earth in 2021
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High School Betelgeuse unusual dimming - what's up?
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High School Light Leaving Earth-Observer's View of Events in Time
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