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Graduate Why doesn't light interact with dark matter?

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Graduate ISIS image subtraction program; trouble running

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High School What can i see with this? (astronomy on a budget)

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Graduate Spacetime: continuous or quantized?

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Can Satellite Watching Become an Addictive Hobby?

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Graduate Highest expansion rate during inflation.

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Undergrad Can Stars Become Black Holes Without Going Supernova?

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Graduate Particle creation in an accelerating Universe?

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Graduate Can Non-Conservation of Momentum Be Explained by an Asymmetry of Space?

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Graduate What is the physical significance of the WMAP power spectrum?

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Graduate Newtonian cosmology vs relativistic cosmology

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Undergrad Energy of photons and the red shift

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Graduate I have some somewhat detailed questions about inflation, curvature, and entropy

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High School Can you see stars from the surface of a ringed planet?

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High School Tilt of the earth's axis. Why does it change?

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Graduate What Lies Beyond the Expanding Universe?

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Graduate Help with calculating an impact on the moon

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Graduate Spectral Energy Distribution of T Tauri stars

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High School Any idea on how to identify a celestial event?

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High School Question About the Wow Signal from 1977

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Graduate How Do We Distinguish Red Shift Changes Over Time in Distant Objects?

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Graduate Does the Universe have a Boundary ?

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Undergrad Convective motion and Stellar jitter

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Graduate What about gravity's relativity?

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Graduate Where is the center of the universe?

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Graduate Is the total energy of each particle constant in an expanding universe?

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High School Why Can't I See the Milky Way in the City?

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Undergrad Fund ESA's Billion-Plus Euro Project for 2020s Launch

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Graduate What Caused the Flaw in the Singularity that Triggered the Big Bang?

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Graduate Dark Energy Changing Into Dark Matter.

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Graduate Could Neutrinos Be the Key to Understanding Dark Matter?

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Graduate The Cyclic Model: Multidimenstional Membranes? Where do these come from?

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Graduate Antineutrinos? Is this a plausible theory?

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Undergrad Plank curves and emission/absorbtion spectra

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Undergrad Eccentricity of orbits and gravitational energy

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Graduate Mechanism for matter creation in an expanding Universe?

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Graduate Question on how stars are located

  • jackcr
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Undergrad Biggest Physics Discoveries 1980-2012

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Graduate Can Simple Mass Accretion Turn a Neutron Star Into a Black Hole?

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High School What is Gravity? How Does it Work & What Are Effects?

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Graduate What happens when a neutron star collapses into a black hole?

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High School Going to Mars as a private company - How hard would it be?

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Undergrad What would happen if the sun was hit by a gamma ray burst?

  • Nash Su
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Graduate Cosmologists: why the acceptance of any weird theory but god?

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Graduate Looking for an introduction to eternal inflation

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Graduate Spaghettification electromagnetism

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Undergrad Why Does Pi Appear in So Many Scientific Equations?

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Graduate The Sun and Hydrogen into Helium Fussion?

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Graduate Can light be affected by other masses in deep space?

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Graduate How to Calculate Intensity in Airy Disk from a Point Source?

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Graduate How to accrete neutral gas after the reionization of the universe?

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Undergrad Do objects really take up space?

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Graduate The Impact of Multiple Universes on Big Bangs

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Stargazing How many percent does the kepler telescope investigate of the sky?

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Undergrad What is our perpective, where did it start, and why can we see it?

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Undergrad Is the Universe Finite or Infinite in Space?

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Graduate Half Closed Universe: Is It Finite?

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Graduate How do we account for all the elements in the Universe?

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Graduate How Do We Know Gas Contributes to Galactic Gravity?

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Graduate How to calculate perihelion precession

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High School Can Earth sustain much bigger object with an infinite weight?

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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of ISM Dust: Origins & Categories

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Graduate Angular Resolution: Best Possible Observing Distance for Stars

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Graduate Do Gravitational Waves Scatter and Increase Entropy?

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Graduate Rate of universe expansion question

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Graduate If Betelgeuse Went Supernova Soon

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Undergrad Where do the heavier elements come from, such as those found in planets?

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Graduate Could dark matter have gamma-ray absorption lines?

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High School How quickly does a star's supernova become apparent to the naked eye?

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Graduate Small scale effects of expansion, and 'bound' objects

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Graduate Short GRB's: Neutron Star Merger Evidence?

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Graduate How do we define 'Earth like planet'

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High School Why does the moon appear sideways in Michigan?

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Graduate What might happen if an object struck and replaced Luna

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Graduate Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Empty Space

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Graduate Need help learning about Dark Matter

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Graduate Does Space Expand? What Do You Think?

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Undergrad Is the Universe’s Accelerating Expansion Theoretical or Observable?

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Graduate Great Analogy of Holding a Rope Above a BH?

  • Drakkith
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Graduate The meaning of the curvature term

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Graduate Is the mass of a black hole diminishing for a free falling observer ?

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Graduate Cosmo calculator-recession speed tutorial

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Undergrad A few qustions about Dark Matter from a beginner.

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Graduate What is Magnetic Buoyancy and How Does it Affect Neutron Stars?

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Graduate Cantor, infinity and cosmology

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Graduate Neutron star temperature and cooling

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Graduate What is the significance of JD and how is it calculated?

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Undergrad When astronomers speculate the distance of galaxies are they talking about its

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Graduate Hubble's law and cosmological density

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Graduate Does Creation of Energy in Universe Violate Conservation of Energy?

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Graduate Best Computer Language for Employment

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High School What is the minimum angular distance from the Sun for Venus to be visible?

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Undergrad Dark Energy: Does It Affect All Space?

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High School I understanding the edge of the universe

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Did We Just Witness a Supernova in M95?

  • Drakkith
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Undergrad Why Does the Analemma Show an Ellipse for Solstices?

  • JeffOCA
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Graduate Is order a natural occurrence or a result of chaos?

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High School Human Eyes See Cosmic Bubbles that Algorithms Miss

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Graduate What Are the Major Conflicts with Standard Cosmology Models?

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