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Why Use IRAF? The Benefits of This Powerful Image Processing Tool
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Does the Tidal Effect Cause Planets to Move Away from the Sun?
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Longest day of year in the tropics
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Will Betelgeuse Go Supernova Soon?
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Was Gravity turned off during inflation?
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Stargazing Do we see the future through telescopes? or the past?
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In Retrospect: If ColdWar-to-HotWar Had Happened ?
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Laser interferometry and the search for gravitational waves
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In wich economic model this are more advanced: Space Exploration and Science.
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Do black holes truly never reveal their secrets?
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Ancient mid-latitude Mar's covalent bonded ice?
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Can something exist without time-space?
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Earth's Departure from the Solar System: Impact on Planetary Orbits
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Mass & Emittance: Does Heat Affect Mass?
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Are waves only defined in 2D, or can they exist in three dimensions?
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Is there such a thing as lumens/m^3?Would you have to be measuring
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Black Holes and the Mysteries of r=0: Understanding the Concept of Infinity
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How is Hawking Radiation Derived Using the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
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Is Earth's Rotation Really Slowing Down?
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Finding the equilibrium bwetween two celestial bodies
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Why is Solar Cycle 24 Starting So Slowly?
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Is the Universe's Age Finite or Infinite Beyond Our Horizon?
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Besides the bigbang, are there other published theories about cosmic microwave
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How does the three-body system (Earth, moon, Sun) work?
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Latest on black hole infromation paradox?
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Are the planets where we belive these to be
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Inner and Outer Spacewhere does it begin, your opinion.
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LCROSS/LRO and Their Effect on the Moon
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Why is the Moon drifting away from Earth?
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Is Meade LX200 10 a Good Deal for Your CCD Scope?
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Neutrino Astronomy: How Much Energy Passes Through Us?
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Length of Days: Past vs. Present - Comparing Rotation Speeds
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Can a Collapsing Star Form a Wormhole?
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Magnatars (Hypothetical Question)
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What Is the Longest Wavelength We Can Observe in Radio Astronomy?
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How does inflation explain the rapid expansion of the universe?
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Do all planets have magnetospheres?
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Mars Terraforming: Possibilities and Limitations
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What Happens to Neutron Stars Without Black Holes?
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Why No Video Streams of Space Missions?
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Unraveling the Mystery of Planetary Motion: Mercury & Pluto
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Looking for interest in Carrol & Ostlie study group
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End of Massive Star: Neutron Star or Black Hole?
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Why Haven't We Sent a Probe Into Jupiter's Depths?
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Apparent superluminal velocity in M82 source
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Can the Sun be treated as a black body radiator?
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Size comparison of WASP-12b (gray) with Jupiter.
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Discontinuity of Spacetime (and other things)
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Distunguishing matter/antimatter black holes
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Planet Energy: Discover Its Frequency & Production
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Asteroids, Meteorites and Meteors: The Differences Explained
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Space Weather reports possibility of Hyder Flare that will hit the earth
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Was the 1969 Moon Landing a Hoax?
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Does the Age of the Universe Need to Factor in Light's Expansion?
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Collapsed hypergiant forms a gamma ray pulsating black hole
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Why do neutron stars suck the gas from their companions?
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Does Newly Discovered Supernova Point to Unknown Laws of Physics?
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Potential for Gamma Ray Bursts to Pose a Threat to Earth?
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Can a Black Hole Be Weaponized?
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Re:star crust 10 billon times stronger than steel
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Spacetime: How Physicists Know
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Finding Distance to Sirius Using Parallax Method
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Big Bang Theory: Can It Really Explain the Universe?
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Voyager 2 Hijacked: Fact or Fiction?
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Earth's Rotation Speed: Would We Notice?
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Is the Dark Matter Hypothesis Failing to Explain Galaxy Formation?
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Why Don't Stars Expand with Space?
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Is there more to the universe than what we can see?
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Couple of questions about black holes and event horizons
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How much of space has humanity observed?
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Space: Endless or Finite? The Surprising Impact on Shape and Structure
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Is Science Limited in Explaining the Concept of Nothingness in the Universe?
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Quark Degeneracy? String Degeneracy? (and the effect on Black Holes)
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Could the Mass in the Universe Be Infinite?
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Why light curves around objects of mass. 3 answers. 3 questions.
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Are galaxies losing mass or gaining density or both?
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Stargazing Can Telescope Size Indicate Wavelength Range?
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Sagitarius A and its Possible Escape from a Black Hole
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Future of human spaceflight (again)
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Understanding Hyperbolic & Parabolic Trajectories
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Can microscopic wormholes pass through larger wormholes without collapsing?
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Where is the Remnant of the Star that Gave Birth to our Solar System?
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What Caused Jupiter to Lose a Stripe?
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Curvature of space and dark matter
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If we could see 13.7 Billion lyears away?
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Black Holes & White Holes - Theoretical Plausibility?
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What is the energy that moon got on us?
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Is it true that gravitation on the full moon day is less than other days?
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Gravitational Model of Tides: Earth and Sun Potential Addition
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Do sattelites orbit with the rotation of the earth?
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What formulas do I need to solve the above problems?
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State of Pulsar Theory & Observations
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Limit to Expansion of the Universe
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How is Heliocentric Earth Longitude Measured?
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SMB Feeding Problem Dark Matter Problems
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What Determines the Differences in Life Across Different Planets?
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Theoretical Question about Milky Way
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Can I Travel Faster Than Light While Considering Relativity?
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Terminology: Dwarf Planet vs. ProtoPlanet
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Request permission to discuss Schild's papers
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