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High School How hard is it to detect extinct comets?
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High School Understanding the Age of Observed Light: A Scientific Perspective
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High School How much in the past do we see these planets?
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High School Can Elon Musk's BFR Project Meet Its Ambitious Timeline for Mars Colonization?
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High School Conjunction Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon - March 18 + or -
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High School High school Astrophysics Research Project Suggestions Please
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High School Tau neutrino flux in IceCube data
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High School If space is transparent how can we not view light from a black hole
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High School How to calculate the energy released?
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High School Why / How do we feel heat from the sun
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High School Why Is There No New Data from LIGO/VIRGO?
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High School Are Early Galaxies Indicating a Future Dead Universe?
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High School Learning to use a Solar Scope with an H alpha filter
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High School The highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken
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High School Why does Jupiter have a stronger gravitational pull than Earth?
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High School Colliding Neutron Stars Collapse into Black Holes
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High School Can We Generate Detectable Gravitational Waves in a Lab?
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High School Debunking Dark Energy Theory: New Evidence Challenges Estimated Age of Universe
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High School Matter falling into a black hole
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High School A second galaxy with no dark matter
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High School Is this a star before it hit the ground on Earth?
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High School See the first precise pulsar surface map
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High School Dark Matter Distrbution in Galaxies
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High School New Storms on Jupiter, by Juno spacecraft
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High School What factors influence the flattening of planets in our solar system?
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High School Cosmic Rays Charge: Expect Reissner-Nordstrom Black Holes?
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High School What Insights Has Voyager 2 Provided From Interstellar Space?
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High School Can Neutron Stars Lose Energy Through Radiation?
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High School Why Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun have a distinctive and sharp boundary?
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High School Molten Core of Mars: Could Tidal Action from a Moon Create a Magnetic Field?
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High School Simulation of a Galaxy, most detailed large-scale simulation to date
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High School Are supernovas more likely to produce neutron stars or black holes?
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High School Meteor Storm Possible Thursday Night November 21-22
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High School Water found on potentially habitable exoplanet
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High School Will Big Stars Turn Into Red Supergiants or Red Giants?
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High School If I were to observe a black hole....
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High School Are There Any Kardeshev 2.0 Civilizations in the Milky Way?
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High School How well do we know solar activity?
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High School Milky Way is "in the top percentile of all the galaxies that exist"
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High School Structure and Dynamics of Blue Supergiants
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High School What Are the Force and Speed of Pulsar Winds?
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High School The search for habitable exoplanets in Alpha Centauri
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High School Question about the Sun's gravitational influence on the Earth and its moon
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High School What is the shape of an asteroid impact on Earth?
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High School Creating an Interstellar Dust Nebula Experiment: Tips and Tricks for Success
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High School Why does the Andromeda galaxy appear so tiny from our perspective?
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High School Anyone here in the CA blackout area that has enjoyed dark skies?
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High School Nobel Prize for first exoplanet discovery
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High School Atoms, Black Holes: Solving 2 Problems with 1 Theory?
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High School Angular Meteorite Strikes on the Moons Surface
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High School What Happens to a Dead Galaxy's Mass?
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High School Are Electrons & Protons Oriented in Stars Like Other Objects?
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High School Is there more to the Red Shift than we think?
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High School Superclusters and their galaxies
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High School How does the LIGO experiment affect SpaceTime?
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High School A wormhole collides with a black hole -- what would happen?
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High School Do we have another interstellar visitor?
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High School Can We See Our Past? - Milky Way & Hubble Telescope
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High School What would it be like on Earth if it were not a sphere?
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High School Radiation shielding and redirecting
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High School The Mysterious Shape of Jupiter: Why Gas Planets Stay Spherical
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High School Intensity of Spherical Shell of Stars
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High School What are the maximum masses of White Dwarves and of Neutron stars?
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High School The Physics of a Black Hole Merger: What Happens to Mass?
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High School How to calculate a star's luminosity/radius
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High School Resources to help understand black holes
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High School Is the Instantaneous Expansion of Space-Time Possible?
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High School Is the Milky Way Warped? New 3D Map Reveals Surprising Findings
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High School Experiment involving Kepler's laws
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High School What would happen if the core of the sun were removed?
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High School Cloud Cities on Venus: Viability & Feasibility
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High School Thirty Meter Telescope can resume construction
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High School How Is Methane Disappearing from Mars' Atmosphere?
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High School What is responsible for the spinning of a galaxy?
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High School Why do pictures of stars have 4 cardinal points?
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High School Do planets without a solid surface precess?
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High School What process allows us to 'see' lightyears of distance with the natural eye?
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High School What’s more “important": GR or QM?
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High School Defining Planets: The Case of Pluto and Other Small Bodies
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High School How well should Astronomers know General Relativity?
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High School What is Hubble's Luminosity Law?
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High School The Hubble deep field photos and the edge of the universe
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High School Black holes and the first law of thermodynamics
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High School Galaxy Database with distances from Earth
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High School Is the asteroid belt horizontal or like a dome?
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High School Destroying asteroids shown to be very difficult
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High School Radio source Hercules A and galaxy 3C 348
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High School New theory, our solar system formation, "space bubble"
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High School What is empirically known about the shape and size of the Universe?
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High School Juno -- Coolest space ship in the solar system?
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High School A little logical doubt on Hawking radiation
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High School Wow. Great picture of exoplanet HR8799e - 129Ly distant
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High School What Causes Meteor Showers and How Can You See Them?
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High School Can a Stronger Black Hole Turn a Weaker One into a White Hole?
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High School What are these bright spots in this zoomable image of the Milky Way?
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High School How to find inverse steradian from arcmin^-2 for density of galaxy
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High School How prevalent is the R language in astronomy research?
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High School A different take on the M87 black hole
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High School Any updates on the first-ever Parker perihelion results?
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