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Military Covering up Fireballs from Space
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Undergrad How would a man on earth appear from outer space
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Undergrad Interstellar Gas & Dust, Densities & Temperatures
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Stargazing Is a .1MHz RF Choke Necessary for the Itty Bitty Radio Telescope?
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High School Why is there no atmosphere on moon
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Graduate Is Betelgeuse Already a Supernova?
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Graduate Question About Derivative Notation
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Is the Alternate Big Bang Theory Supported by Scientific Evidence?
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Graduate Link White hole and our Universe
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Graduate Gravitational Lensing: Accretion Discs Around Black Holes
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Graduate Measuring Black Hole Gravity with a Laser
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Graduate Massive M87 Black Hole Discovered with Supercomputer
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Undergrad Can Someone Help Me Rearrange This Astrophysics Equation?
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Naming Stars: A Scam or Legitimate Organization?
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Graduate Does time dilation cause redshift?
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High School What is the gravitational acceleration on Earth's surface?
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High School Liquid ocean in Uranus and Neptune
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Undergrad Is there any formula to calculate the effect gravity has on time
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Graduate How Do Black Holes Emit Radio Waves if They Only Suck Things In?
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Undergrad Solar Wind's Effect on other Planets
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Can Penguin Poop Really Be Seen from Space?
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Has anyone not seen Google sky? What did you think?
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High School Can we see our own galaxy out there due to gravitational effects?
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How can I tell if the night sky is observable from here?
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Graduate Understanding Superluminal Jets and Accretion Emissions from Black Holes
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High School Comet Tails: A Mystery of Solar Forces
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High School Gaining Understanding of Force for Launching a Rocket/Satellite into Space
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Graduate Does the Expansion of the Universe Defy the Law of Conservation of Energy?
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High School Is a KBO the Size of Mars Considered a Planet?
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Graduate What Makes Supernova 2008ha Unique and How Did a 14-Year-Old Discover It?
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Undergrad How long until the Sun becomes a black dwarf?
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High School Gravity & Satellites: Moon's Influence on Earth Satellites
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Undergrad Exoplanets seem all to have elliptical orbits
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Math is Hard - the Aerospace Engineer
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Graduate Comparing data sets of different size
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Graduate What happens to a light beam in a flat universe with finite size?
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Graduate Proof of the curvature of space-time?
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Graduate Derive flight path angle from orbital elements
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Graduate Detecting Anti-Matter: Can We Tell?
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Graduate Accounting for Cosmological Expansion in Distance Measurements
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Undergrad Solar Coraona, Photosphere, and temperture
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Graduate What is time and how does it affect our perception of space and light?
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Undergrad Size Limit of Comets: Understanding Kepler's Laws
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Graduate Thick-Skinned Gravastars Vie to Replace Black Holes, in Theory
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Graduate What stops a star from fusing all its fuel at once?
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Graduate Does Acceleration Affect a Distant Observer's Perception?
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Graduate Does Flat Space Exist in the Context of General Relativity?
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Graduate Calculating Celestial Coordinates
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Undergrad Distance to stars from my house using the parallax technique?
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Graduate Can You Determine the Center of Mass Distance Using Instantaneous Orbital Data?
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High School Do Planets Orbit Closer to the Sun Over Time?
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Graduate Can Black Holes Bend Light and Act as a Time Machine?
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Undergrad What Gases Are Present in Dwarf Planets and Kuiper Belt Objects?
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High School Distance analogy - am I being accurate?
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Graduate Can Non-Cosmological Redshifts Explain Anomalies in Galaxy Interactions?
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Graduate Seeing Back to the Big Bang: Is it Possible?
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High School Size of the Universe is 13.7 billion light years?
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High School Zodiac Constellations: Sun's Path Through the Year
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Graduate Effective weight of a star's layers
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Graduate Superluminal Jets: 6c Speeds Detected!
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Undergrad EMwave in space and copper wire.
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Graduate What happens to a 0.7 solar mass star when it comes off the main sequence?
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Graduate Alien Maps of an Ocean-Bearing World
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CD player as a gyroscope in space
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High School Outer space where there was no gravity
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Undergrad Star Calculator (Excel spreadsheet)
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High School Why do heavenly bodies rotate and what causes this rotation?
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Graduate How Long Does an Interstellar Cloud Take to Contract?
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High School Location of the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter
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Graduate Why Does the Expanding Universe Cause Red Shift?
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Graduate Gaining Orbital Energy from Sun's Gravity-Assist Flyby
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Graduate The maximum mass of white dwarf star
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Undergrad How to calc absolute magnitudes by comparing to the sun's luminosity
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Graduate Virtual pair production - black holes
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Undergrad Question about the sun and the earth long long ago.
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High School Gravity in the Middle of a Planet: Puzzling Questions
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Undergrad How Do Tides Reveal the Dynamics of the Earth-Moon System?
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Stargazing Cleaning Eyepieces - What's the Best Method?
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Graduate Determining the Best Wavelength for Darwin's Space Mission
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Undergrad Could the shuttle land with Hubble?
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High School Is Mars Really Approaching Close to Earth on August 27th?
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Undergrad Can elevons and rudders effectively steer spacecraft in the vacuum of space?
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Graduate Can we determine the rotation speed of a black hole?
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Graduate Formation of Relativistic Jets from Black Holes
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High School What makes an asteroid an asteroid and not a comet
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Undergrad What are the actual dimensions of the Horsehead nebula?
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Graduate Attraction Forces During Total Eclipse: Sun, Moon, and Earth Explained
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High School Is the Spin of Earth Constant Throughout the Year?
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Graduate What are the differences between rotating and non-rotating black holes?
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Graduate Is it Possible to Escape a Black Hole Using a Spaceship and Hawking Radiation?
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Graduate Schwartzchild Radius & entropy
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Undergrad Is there really a black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
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Undergrad Works of Riemann related to Astronomy that I can understand?
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Undergrad Does Star Evolution Always Lead to Expansion?
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Graduate Moving an asteroid into Earth orbit
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High School Giant mystery blob found near dawn of time
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PG&E makes deal for space solar power
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Undergrad Why are the orbits elliptical in shape?
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Undergrad How much lighter do I weigh at noon than I do at dawn?
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High School Calculating Earth's # of Rotations Around the Sun
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