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High School What is the Unit for Gas Giant Planets in Astrophysics?
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High School Fast Radio Burst Pinned Down to Giant Stellar Nursery
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High School It's not sure but Andromeda will likely hit us -- Is this true?
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High School What Happens to Gases in Space and How Do They Behave?
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High School So why is space travel so hurdlesome again?
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High School Kepler's 3rd Law, geometric relationship?
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High School What is the relationship between brown dwarfs and giant gas planets?
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High School Another Earth-like system near us
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High School Do black holes radiate antimatter?
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High School Inclinations of star orbits in the Milky Way
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High School What Are the Orbiting Objects Around Luhman 16AB Called?
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High School Can this be another reason for dark energy?
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High School Sidereal Time and the Arctic Circle
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High School How many planets can we estimate in other galaxies?
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High School Effect of the Sun's Gravity on the Moon
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High School Can Kepler Data and Machine Learning Discover Habitable Exoplanets?
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High School Does gravity cause time dilation?
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High School Enlarging Planetary Orbits: Evidence of the Solar System's Evolution?
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High School Star trails and the Earth's movemement
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High School Would All Observers See a Warp Drive Spaceship at Constant Speed?
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High School Will Michigan Ever Get An Eclipse
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High School Question About The Stars -- Can they have died before we see their light?
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High School Earth-Sun Lagrange Points Distance Query
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High School General Relativity Aces a Test at Supermassive Black Hole
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High School The Hottest Giant Planet Yet: 7800 degrees F.
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High School What is the atmospheric pressure on Pluto and how can it sustain gases?
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High School Map of Solar System: See How Far Away Planets Are!
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High School How do we know the size of the universe?
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High School First Direct Measurement of Brown Dwarf Mass Limit: 6.7% Sun
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High School How Does Earth's Water Compare to Potential Ocean and Desert Planets?
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High School A Question about tiny tiny stars, and radiating heat
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High School Cepheid Variable Stars and Space-Time Warping
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High School How much effect does the moon's gravity/size have on Mars?
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High School Earth may owe its birth to a solar eruption
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High School Is it possible Earth is a black hole?
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High School The Early Universe and the Laws of Physics
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High School What is the true meaning of the Big Bang?
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High School The Earth's magnetic field and moon
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High School Super-Earth Found in Habitable Zone of Nearby Red Dwarf
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High School Does Negative Mass Play a Role in Hawking Radiation?
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High School Why did Aristotle arrange the planets in this order?
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High School Celestial Mechanics: Eccentricity of Orbits
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High School Where have we looked, or are looking, for life?
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High School An exercise related to the mass of the Milky Way, sort of.
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High School Does the Big Bang Expansion Include All Objects in the Universe?
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High School Finding Black Holes: Possible or Not?
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High School How do black holes attract light?
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High School Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot Hiding a Massive Volcano?
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High School What do the letters in the solar sail equation denote?
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High School Black hole mass and sigma (velocity dispersion)
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High School The Best Spot to Set Up a Colony on Mars
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High School If the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate....
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High School How do we know the stars are not our own light falling back.
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High School Question about Hertzsprung-Russell-diagram
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High School Is There an Arctic Circle on the Moon?
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High School How fast is Earth traveling due to the Hubble constant?
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High School Could Microbes Really Thrive in the Clouds of Venus?
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High School What would happen to the Moon if (at full moon) the Earth disappeared?
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High School How do you know the size/maximum area of a gravity field
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High School What are the applications of solar sails?
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High School Need Martian Regolith/Soil Simulant. JSC Mars-1
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High School What are the chances of evolution of organisms in space
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High School How can gravity act on a photon?
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High School Light Travel Time: Seeing the Past?
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High School Cosmological Redshift: Where Has the Energy Gone?
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High School What Saturn’s moon, Pan looks like
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High School What is the vacuum at the Karman line?
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High School Are black holes perfect spheres?
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High School How is the Horizon Drop Calculated Due to Earth's Curvature?
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High School Dark Matter Stars: Burning Hot and Invisible
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High School Space Camera Project: Ideas for STEM & Space Exploration
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High School Cepheid variable stars cause of light variance
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High School If something stands absolutely still in the space can it time travel?
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High School Why Do Hot Stars Like Zeta Puppis Appear Blue Despite Low Wavelengths?
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High School What is seen from the farthest star?
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High School How can the Universe grow if it is infinite?
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High School Generating Plausible Star Systems
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High School How can I conceptualise light and the known universe
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High School Infinite vs Expanding Universe: A Physics Conundrum Explained
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High School E=0. What Does That Mean for the Seasons?
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High School Can a solar sail be accelerated 20% speed of light
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High School What fueled the Big Bang explosion?
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High School Would a manned flyby of Ceres be easier than a mars landing?
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High School Could Current Technology Enable a Manned Mission to Europa?
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High School Surface Temperatures - White Dwarf vs Neutron Star
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High School How long would remains be detectable?
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High School Our atmosphere and the rotating Earth
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High School Space news and events aggregator app
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High School Seeing Venus with the Naked Eye - Light Pollution
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High School Top 3 brighest planets as seen from other planets
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High School Arecibo Message: Will It Be Received 25,000 Years Later?
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High School Geology of Ceres illuminates origin of organics
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High School Finding the distance of two points from observer
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High School Challenging the Existence of Black Holes: A Critical Analysis of Recent Research
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High School How can we find the curvature of a star or planet?
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High School What part of the Moon am I looking at?
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High School Could neutrinos be the key to successful SETI communication?
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High School In how many years will the surface of the Sun be 75 degrees Fahrenheit?
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High School Comets, Water & the Sun: Investigating Earth's Origins
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High School Can a photon be made energetic enough to escape a black hole
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