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High School Law of Gravity & Stars in Galaxy

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Graduate How Does Chaplygin Gas Unify Dark Energy and Dark Matter?

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High School Calculating how long ago light was emitted from a star?

  • crawleen
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Graduate Revamping general concept and cosmological principle

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Graduate What the Hubble constant must be set to if Univ is flat

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High School Possible matter being Created/Destroyed?

  • Samuel99
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Undergrad Question about the fabric of space

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Graduate Evidence of Dark Matter? 130-GeV gamma rays from near our galaxy's core

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Undergrad Distance of planets from stars and revolution

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Graduate Real-Space vs Redshift-Space Correlation Functions

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Undergrad Does Time Flow Differently in Distant Galaxies Due to Speed?

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Graduate Do cyclic models of the universe

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Undergrad Could the Milky Way's Dense Oort Cloud Mean a Richer Galactic Landscape?

  • Dark Universe
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Graduate Time Space Physics: 3 Questions for Physics Community

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Undergrad The atmosphere of titan and mars

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Graduate Blackbody Radiation: Solving Introduction to Cosmology Eq. #25

  • 4everphysics
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Graduate Light from Big Bang: 14 Billion Years Old and Counting

  • 4everphysics
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Graduate Article: Every black hole contains a new universe

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Graduate Perlmutter & Supernovae: Debunking the Myth of Accelerating Galaxies

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Graduate How Does Math Point to Various Theories in Physics?

  • wilha
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Graduate Dark Matter: Light or Misunderstood?

  • excession
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Graduate By what equation do physicists use to measure the time before the CMB

  • robertjford80
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Graduate How is Cosmological Proper Distance Defined and Interpreted in Physics?

  • Ich
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High School I would like to learn more about cosmology

  • Chibbz
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Undergrad Is Moon so crucial for axial tilt stability of the planet?

  • Tiger Blood
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Graduate Is it possible that speed of a gravitational waves are greater than c?

  • Ravi Mandavi
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Graduate Question regarding dark energy and accelerated expansion

  • rrosenthal
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Graduate Supernova Shockwave: Finite or Energy?

  • Kruzeman
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Graduate Is Dark Energy the Same as Vacuum Energy?

  • Don'tKnowMuch
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Whats is volume of mass at the centre of the sun

  • karen_lorr
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Graduate Black Holes as 2 Dimensional Objects

  • Vastin
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Graduate How can they rule out a closed universe?

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High School We're no longer biggest star system

  • DaveC426913
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High School Do we know whats at the center of galaxies yet?

  • Topher925
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Undergrad Did Olympus Mons Cause Mars' Lack of Electromagnetic Field?

  • dizzolve
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Graduate What would it take to terraform Pluto and Charon?

  • Dark Universe
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Graduate How new are carbon chem and rocky planets?

  • marcus
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Graduate We live at the beginning of the time when life is possible

  • robertjford80
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Graduate Star Cluster Within Self Schwarzschild Radius

  • chill_factor
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Graduate Black holes and an argument I'm in

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Graduate Does dark matter have to be one particle

  • KeplerJunior
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Graduate Why does inflation lead to a smaller universe at 380000 years?

  • Thorslog
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Graduate How big do we need for comsological principle?

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Is Dark Matter Really Missing in Our Galactic Neighborhood?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Confused about the formation of Stuff in an Isotropic-ish Universe

  • QuestionMarks
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High School Can the Venus transit be viewed with the naked eye

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Undergrad What Does the Solar Spectrum Look Like at Night?

  • ANarwhal
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Undergrad Is the Universe Really Expanding Without a Center?

  • azizlwl
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Graduate On Introducing a Nano-Planet into an Existing Solar System

  • jackpelham
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Graduate Galaxies moving faster than the speed of light?

  • AustinJones
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High School Big Bang Skeptic: Constructing a Ring-like Universe

  • dthomass
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High School Is there truly no center to the universe?

  • geordief
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Graduate Subtracting the proper motion resulting from movement of the Sun

  • rawen
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Graduate Black hole acreting binary -magnetic fields

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Why The Gamma Ray Burst doesn't explode into all the directions?

  • arabianights
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Graduate Hubble's Law and it's relation to Quantum Mechanics

  • commodianus
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Undergrad The Expanding Universe: Evidence for Raisin Bread Baking Effect

  • AustinJones
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Undergrad Spinning Magnets in Space: Physics & Hydro Generator

  • grimofdoom
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Undergrad Is the process of fusion really enough to keep stars from imploding?

  • david findley
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Graduate Mathematical Solar Model: Core, Radiative Zone, and Convective Zone

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Undergrad What happens to shrapnel if a hand grenade explodes in solar orbit?

  • jackpelham
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Graduate What exactly is a quantum fluctuation

  • robertjford80
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Graduate Lawrence Krauss: Observing a Baby Universe's Expansion

  • Routaran
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Graduate Science bits of Hawking's documentary

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Graduate Q and U parameters for polarization

  • Anne-Sylvie
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Graduate Stephen Hawking's did god Create the Universe discovery documentary

  • Tanelorn
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Graduate Series Expansion Newton Dark Matter

  • jensel
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Graduate Vc versus Vcc. Meteor Calculations

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Undergrad Did the Milky Way Have a Galactic Collision in the Past?

  • Aidyan
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Graduate Why is the CMB power spectrum often plotted as l(l+1) C_l and not only C_L ?

  • Anne-Sylvie
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Graduate Unifying Dark Energy & Dark Matter: Investigating the Chaplygin Gas

  • kptsilva
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Graduate Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics Explain Us

  • RAuld
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High School Percent area of the universe is galaxy?

  • sketchd2
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Undergrad Hubble Law - recession velcoity?

  • jsmith613
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Undergrad What Are the Key Flaws in the Big Bang Theory?

  • iner7ia
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Graduate Half Question/Half-Challenge: Dimensions of of the Earth-Moon System

  • Vorde
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High School Gravity another question from a bus driver

  • bigalzz
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The balloon analogy (please critique)

  • phinds
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High School Gravity a question from a bus driver:-)

  • bigalzz
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Graduate Why Measure Velocity Dispersion in Elliptical Galaxies?

  • Tomer
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Graduate Does the Universe Have a Circular Structure?

  • geordief
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Graduate Questions about Universe expansion

  • AlSo
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Weird Face In the Pillars of Creation?

  • Samuel99
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High School Earth's magnetosphere historical data

  • DanSolo
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Graduate Is the number of atoms the same as during the Big Bang

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High School Did the heaviest elements come from other galaxys

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Undergrad Dark Matter, any new news about it?

  • Max Born
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High School How much would a laser spread out in space?

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Undergrad Which is Brighter: Gamma Ray Bursters or Quasars?

  • aguycalledwil
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Undergrad Our weight if the earth spins faster

  • PhysicoRaj
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Graduate Nuetron Star Binary: Acretion Process Differences

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Will a Knotted Flux Tube in a Plasma Tend to Move?

  • ImaLooser
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High School Planets & Galaxies: Movement Patterns Explained

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Graduate Solar wind interaction with Earth's magnetic field

  • jubby
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Graduate Hypothesis: Tugging from the Sun to Earth Faster than Light?

  • BenWillcox
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Graduate Why can't dark matter simply be ripples in spacetime?

  • DanielBolstad
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Graduate Can Space-Time Events Be Quantized Before the Big Bang?

  • geordief
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Graduate How WMAP satellite surveyed all over observable universe

  • hitchiker
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Undergrad Far away galaxies moving faster than light?

  • CarlosLara
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Undergrad Trying to understand basic gravitation

  • U.Renko
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