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Graduate Is 300eV the Correct Mean Photon Energy for a Black Body at 1 Million K?

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Graduate The philosophy of Wormholes, Blackholes, Deep space, etc

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Graduate Can an Asteroid Collision with the Moon Create a Debris Cloud Around Earth?

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Undergrad Solar flares & CMEs: Serious threat?

  • Jeem
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High School Positions of stars as seen from Mars-different than from Earth?

  • KenJackson
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Graduate Poisson and continuity equation for collapsing polytropes

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Undergrad Why Correct Horizontal Parallax Errors?

  • Philosophaie
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Undergrad Can a Planet Support an Atmosphere with 50% Earth's Gravity?

  • willstaruss22
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Graduate Do gravitational waves affect our measurements of weight?

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Is the Milky Way winding up or spinning out in space?

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Graduate Is there an event horizon beyond the visible universe?

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Undergrad Fictional Earthbound Asteroid Collision

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Graduate Derivation of the formula for cosmological redshift

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Undergrad Where there more planets being formed?

  • Charles123
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Graduate What would Mars be like with 50% more density?

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Undergrad Black hole - frequencies used for viewing

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Undergrad Is a black hole a quasar or blazar?

  • isha89
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Graduate Lightlike radial null geodesic - how do we know it has constant theta and phi?

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High School Role of Neutrinos: What Are They and What Do They Do?

  • RobinSky
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High School What would happen to a bullet shot into space?

  • tackyattack
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Can someone identify what this is in the sky below the moon.

  • TheRanker
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Graduate Trying to understand the normalisation of the scale factor to be 1 today

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Graduate Pulling information out of a black hole

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How to convert my MXF files for importing into FCP X

  • Maical Jecol
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Graduate Sudden Earth Rotation Deceleration Theory

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Graduate How Does Order Arise from Disorder Despite the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

  • Dadalus
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Graduate Atmospheric Creation on the Moon

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High School Got doubts about Curiosity surviving Mars landing

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Graduate How thick is a black hole event horizon?

  • europa1
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Graduate New unbiased technique for the measure of the local dark matter density

  • drrail
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Graduate Super Structure - Evidence for Handedness Spiral Galaxies

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Graduate Black Hole Information Loss Question

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Graduate Can Gauss's Law Explain the Field of an Electron in a Closed Finite Universe?

  • Khashishi
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Graduate Is Dark Energy Present Everywhere in the Universe?

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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High School Understanding the Moon's Phases: Debunking Common Misconceptions

  • DeepSpace9
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Undergrad Could a Hypernova Have Caused the Big Bang?

  • DLHill
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High School When a star forms where does the Gravity come from?

  • MattA147
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Undergrad Could there be a portal inside or near the sun?

  • Astrid
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Graduate Antimatter decay rate in a book?

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Undergrad Can a planet/moon's atmosphere generate a magnetic field?

  • jarroe
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Graduate Is Spacetime Linear? - The Universe in a Nutshell

  • Justinmcg67
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Graduate What Happens When a Magnetar Becomes a Black Hole?

  • TheOtherDave
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Graduate Is it Possible to Locate Earth's Future and Past Positions in the Starry Sky?

  • CuriositE
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Graduate The Big Bang: Radiation Era and Hydrogen Fusing to Helium

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Graduate Could Black Holes Lead to New Universes?

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Undergrad Why can't Light Escape Black Holes?

  • DRC12
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Graduate Solar flares triggering seismic events

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Undergrad Center of the universe the origin of the big bang?

  • jarroe
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Undergrad Could the Supernova Shock Wave That Created Our Solar System Still Be Detected?

  • Ms Music
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High School How strong is gravity in the center of the earth?

  • Bjarne
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Graduate How does light act leaving, traveling between, and entering galaxies?

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Undergrad The Universe is expanding, but why aren't we?

  • Gregory.gags
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What do you think of The Universe series?

  • kikko
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Graduate Berman's zero energy condition for universe

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Graduate Using iteration to orbit dual suns - losing energy

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Graduate Can New Galaxies Appear Due to Doppler Shift at High Speeds?

  • RobinSky
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Graduate Planck satellite, gravitational waves

  • g.lemaitre
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Graduate What does SR say about the expanding universe?

  • NWH
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High School Does Gravity Ever End and How Does It Affect Objects in Space?

  • raeshun
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Graduate How can EVERY point in the universe be the center?

  • Cody Richeson
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Undergrad Is There a Formula for Calculating Star Altitude and Azimuth Over Time?

  • TheSource007
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Graduate Comprehensive Supernova Catalog: Redshift, DM, DM Err & Position Data

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Graduate Singularity in infinite space-time

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Graduate How exctly the higgs field originted after the big bang?

  • Abersman
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Graduate How is the gain of a radio antenna at 230GHz calculated?

  • isha89
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Graduate Is the Multiverse Hypothesis Losing Steam in Scientific Circles?

  • genphis
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Undergrad Are Lawrence Krauss' theories accepted in physics academia?

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Graduate What is the scientific reasoning behind Inflation after the big bang?

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Graduate One planet, two suns, ellipse or hyperbola?

  • Rapidrain
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Graduate Optimizing Orbits with Runge-Kutta-Nyström Method

  • Dmalyuta
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Graduate ESO sheds light on type II supernova

  • Chronos
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Graduate Estimating Star Formation Rate in Plasma Clouds

  • Sagar_C
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Mass, energy, gravity, space, time and math

  • Dremmer
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Undergrad Sun's Temperature: Is the Sun Charged?

  • Vinay R Hegde
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Graduate Polarized Light and Quantum Spin

  • ImaLooser
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Graduate What Lies Beyond the Expanding Universe?

  • ImBatman
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Graduate Why should rotating black holes emit particles?

  • Confuses
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Graduate Can We Detect an Ongoing Enlarging of Everything in the Universe?

  • jharvath
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Undergrad Supernova that created our solar system

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Graduate Erosion of comet with Dark Matter.

  • daumphys
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Graduate Where Did the Big Bang Occur?

  • hoshang
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High School Could an ~12ft rocket launch some sort of probe into space

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Graduate Connecting two points in the Universe?

  • elsiear
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Vacuum Fluctuations for the Big Bang Theory?

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Undergrad Is it possible I saw a luminous cosmic ray track?

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Graduate How Can We Quantify Homogeneity in Physical Systems?

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High School Why Can't We See Stars Beyond Earth?

  • DeepSpace9
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Graduate Is accelerated expansion creating energy

  • friend
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Undergrad How Long Do Black Holes Last Before Vaporizing?

  • thequestioner
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Undergrad Pluto's New Moon and Potential Collision Risks for New Horizons Probe

  • jarroe
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Graduate Big bangs & macroquantic - two questions

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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Angular Separation of Stars Using Different Coordinates?

  • TheSource007
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Graduate Can objects be redshifted to the point of becoming invisible?

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Undergrad How Does the Gravitational Force Equation Change with 1/r^3?

  • nearc
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RIP - Sally Ride - first American woman in space

  • Astronuc
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Graduate How Did the First Proton Emerge from the Big Bang?

  • Alain De Vos
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Excellent Exoplanet Illustration

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Graduate Does the number of galaxies change with time?

  • jmd_dk
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High School Half of moon fluctuates in luminosity and hue randomly, why?

  • sonoffeanor
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Someone please explain this Sun Phenomenon

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