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Stargazing How do i make a telescope computerized?
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Graduate What is Jean's Creation in Relation to Interstellar Mediums?
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Undergrad Why Isn't the Moon's Shadow Line Perpendicular to the Sun-Moon Line?
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Graduate Can Jupiter Become a Stable Star?
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High School Science Fair Project Ideas for Astronomy
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Undergrad Are there any fields of astrophysics with no general relativity?
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Undergrad How Does Visible Light from Quasars Reach Us?
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Graduate What Happens to Sound Waves Near Black Holes?
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Undergrad What is the photon sphere and where is the singularity in a black hole?
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Graduate Is the Dark Matter Hypothesis Dead?
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Graduate How Long Does the Bipolar Outflow Stage Last in Proto/T Tauri Stars?
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What makes a great astrophysicist
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High School Effects on earth from a heavier moon
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Graduate Chromosphere population inversion?
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High School Do all stars have same revolving speed?
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High School What Makes Black Holes So Mysterious: Do They Really Absorb Light?
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Graduate What will Juice tell us about Europa?
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Undergrad Density of Venus' atmosphere - historical
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High School How does and object get its color?
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Undergrad What Makes Gamma Ray Bursts a Fascinating Field of Study?
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Undergrad How can I calculate planet trajectory for a 2d solar system simulation?
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High School History of the Earth's Axial Tilt
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Undergrad Does Higher Luminosity Mean Higher Power in Stars?
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High School What is the actual colour of the Sun?
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High School Is there any star not belonging to any galaxy?
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Undergrad Sun's North Magnetic Pole Begins to Flip, South Not Moving Yet
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Graduate Need help with Gravitational Constant (G)
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Graduate Is there a limit on the rotational speed of fast spinning pulsars?
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Graduate What Are the Key Theories Behind the Multiverse Concept?
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Graduate How to Determine the Mass of an AGN from Solar Luminosity?
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What is your opinion on John C. Mather
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Why Should We Prioritize Manned Space Missions in Modern Exploration?
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High School Hubble's Misconception and the Discovery of Other Galaxies within Our Universe
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Undergrad Undergraduate research topic help?
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Graduate Neutron stars not sustained by degeneracy force?
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Graduate Orbit Determination for Dummies Another hillbilly tutorial.
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Graduate Cherenkov detector on a venus orbiter (Venera 9)
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Undergrad Radio doppler experiment (astro)
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Undergrad Understanding Local Standard of Rest for Astronomy Exam
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Graduate Density profile of Wolf Rayet stars
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Graduate What's the precise relationship between Mass and Charge
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Undergrad Limiting Magnitude of CCD Imaging
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Graduate Issues regarding the expansion of the Universe at the subatomic level
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Graduate Luneburg Lenses: Understanding Diffraction, Spill-over and Focusing
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Graduate How Can I Start Learning Numerical Simulations for Modeling Gamma-Ray Bursts?
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What is the mass of dark matter?
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Graduate What's Behind Dark Matter/Energy? What We're Missing
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High School What is the opposite of a supernova
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Graduate Understanding Black Holes: Perspectives and Questions
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High School How do I find the age of a star?
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Graduate Question about the formation of a massive star
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Undergrad Why Doesn't the Universe Explode Because of an Antimatter Reaction?
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Undergrad Is it possible to find our Sun's siblings?
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Undergrad Massive Stars Spin Faster: The Reason Explained
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Undergrad Visibility of Venus during the march equinox
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Graduate Metallicity and Stellar Formation
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Graduate Alternative theories being tested by Gravity probe B
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Undergrad Sending a rocket into space 75% less fuel.
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Graduate Is time just a perception of potential possibilities?
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Graduate Do Planck Units Remain Relevant Inside Black Holes?
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How would you describe a black hole
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Undergrad Supernova in 2241 BC: Astronomer Views
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Undergrad Why does velocity not vary with distance within 10 Mpc?
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Undergrad What Are Wormholes and How Do They Work?
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Graduate Can the Moon sustain an atmosphere after terraforming?
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Undergrad Is a Utah Petroglyph Evidence of the 1054 Supernova Observation?
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How do astrophysicists balance truth and creativity
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Graduate Does iron really kill fusion in stars?
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Undergrad Follow-up and pipeline: definitions
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Graduate Hawking radiation and cosmic microwave background radiation
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Graduate Physical space properties questions
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High School Naked eye view from intergalactic space
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High School Why Can We See Venus from Michigan?
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Undergrad Why do orbits become more eccentric when changing speed?
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Graduate Why doesn't light interact with dark matter?
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Graduate ISIS image subtraction program; trouble running
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High School What can i see with this? (astronomy on a budget)
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Graduate Spacetime: continuous or quantized?
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Can Satellite Watching Become an Addictive Hobby?
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Graduate Highest expansion rate during inflation.
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Graduate Can Non-Conservation of Momentum Be Explained by an Asymmetry of Space?
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High School Can you see stars from the surface of a ringed planet?
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High School Tilt of the earth's axis. Why does it change?
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Graduate Help with calculating an impact on the moon
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Graduate Spectral Energy Distribution of T Tauri stars
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High School Any idea on how to identify a celestial event?
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High School Question About the Wow Signal from 1977
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Undergrad Convective motion and Stellar jitter
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High School Why Can't I See the Milky Way in the City?
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Undergrad Fund ESA's Billion-Plus Euro Project for 2020s Launch
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Graduate Dark Energy Changing Into Dark Matter.
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Undergrad Plank curves and emission/absorbtion spectra
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Undergrad Eccentricity of orbits and gravitational energy
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Graduate Question on how stars are located
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Graduate Can Simple Mass Accretion Turn a Neutron Star Into a Black Hole?
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High School What is Gravity? How Does it Work & What Are Effects?
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Graduate What happens when a neutron star collapses into a black hole?
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High School Going to Mars as a private company - How hard would it be?
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Undergrad What would happen if the sun was hit by a gamma ray burst?
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Graduate Spaghettification electromagnetism
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