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High School Understanding Gravity: Causes, Sources, and Strength Explained

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Undergrad How much of an effect does fusion have on a star's gravity?

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Graduate Transferring Matter between Bubble Universes

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Graduate Where Does Our Universe Exist in Relation to Branes?

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High School My random thoughts about the sun, black holes, and gravity.

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High School What is the difference between Astronomy, Astrophyics and Cosmology?

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Graduate Question about galaxy formation and black holes.

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Graduate What are the Main Theories for the Current State and Structure of the Universe?

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Graduate How Does Expansion Effect the Frequency of Light

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Graduate Inflation and electroweak and GUT vacuum

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Graduate Did Space Really Expand or Is It Just a Misinterpretation?

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Graduate Does how black holes inside galaxies orbit around the central black hole tell us

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High School Has Anyone Explored Planetary Orbits Using Monkey Typewriter Method?

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Graduate BLACK MATTER what is it? wheres it come from?

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Graduate Dark energy, matter in a Multiverse Schemata

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Graduate How Does Torque Affect the Dynamics of an Accretion Disc?

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Graduate What is the relation between a black hole's mass and its kinetic energy?

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Undergrad How is the Barycenter Determined in a Two-Body System?

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Undergrad What are the strange absorption peaks on this solar spectrum?

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Graduate Why is the Universe the Way it is?

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Graduate Who said aether viscosity is ridiculously large ?

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Graduate Critical density and total observable mass

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Graduate Observing someone falling into a Black Hole.

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High School Can Black Holes Grow, Merge, and Affect the Universe's End?

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Graduate Why does comoving Hubble radius increase with time?

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Graduate Age of a vaccum energy dominated universe

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Graduate Black Hole & Black Body Radiation: Why Can't It Absorb?

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Graduate Can Intergalactic Gas Feel Hot Despite Its Low Density?

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What are the differences between Astrophysics and Astronomy?

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Graduate Development of dimensional universe since big bang.

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Graduate Inflaton Field and Boucne Models

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Undergrad Calculating distance using redshift

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Graduate Calculation of the Distance to the Moons Apogee/Perigee ?

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Graduate Non-ballistic big bang and expansion not from a center

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Graduate How to calculate the size and orientation of a tidal bulge

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Graduate Application of Condensation Sequence to extrasolar systems?

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High School How do scientists monitor the Sun's activity?

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Graduate Estimation of central temperature of a star

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High School Closest Habitable Planet: Gliese 581g | 79 Year Trip?

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Graduate Unifying GR + EM: Inflation & Gravity Effects

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Graduate Why does light and gravity travel at the same speed?

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Asking for your sources of images of the whole earth.

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Impossible Thought: Galaxy Traveling at Light Speed, Milky Way Merging/Ripping

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Undergrad Black Holes, how much energy do they give off?

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Undergrad The proton flux in Solar System in keV range

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Undergrad How do we calculate the magnitude of a system with binary stars?

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Graduate Rainbows in Space: Astronaut Sightings?

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Graduate Spacetime: Stretching or Growing? Or

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Graduate Visualizing 4D Objects: Is it Possible?

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Graduate Density Parameter for radiation dominated universe

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Graduate Galaxy expansion & cosmological constant

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High School Sunrise Direction in the South Pole

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Undergrad Launching Spacecraft from the Moon: Is it Worth It?

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Undergrad Orienting Space: 3D Travel from Earth, Center of Universe

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Graduate Can a Black Hole Collide with a Newly Formed Supernova Black Hole?

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Undergrad Hydrogen and Helium-4 in thermodynamic equilibrium

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Graduate Metric Perturbation: Finding Info for Einstein's Field Equation

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Graduate Does Hubble's Expansion voilate conservation of energy by redshifting EM waves?

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Graduate Could The Universe be a Wave emanating from a greater source?

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Stargazing Reflecting Telescope or Refracting Telescope?

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Undergrad Question on delta-v and escape velocity?

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Graduate What caused galaxies to start spinning?

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High School Is the Universe Truly Unbounded?

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Graduate Time and distance relative to an expanding universe

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Graduate How to design a weird but comfortable planet

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Graduate Neutrinos Interaction with EH of Black Holes

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Graduate Understanding Orbital Mechanics & Elliptical Paths

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High School How big will the sun get when the seas begin to boil?

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Graduate Duration of the original CMB radiation

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Undergrad What is the expansion of the universe

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Undergrad Where is the center of the universe?

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Graduate How is the age of the universe determined through light and cosmic expansion?

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Graduate Could Black Holes Be Cosmic Centrifuges?

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Undergrad Understanding Arrays and Their Role in Converting Light into Data

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Graduate Is There a Weak Repulsive Force of Empty Space in the Universe?

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Graduate Applying the uncertinty principle to the big bang

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Undergrad Why do neutrinos escape the sun's core faster than photons?

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Graduate Galaxy size particle accelerator

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Graduate I've got my FTL boots on (another silly black hole question)

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Undergrad Is the Shapiro time delay effect accepted in science ?

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Graduate Can Radar Be Used to Map Distant Planets?

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High School Comet Death Dive Into Sun Seen in Detail for 1st Time

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Graduate Hydrostatic Equilibrium in an Accretion Disc

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Undergrad Venus: Slowing Rotation Detected by Venera, Magellan, and Venus Express

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Undergrad How Do You Convert Proton Flux from 1/(cm^2 s sr) to 1/(cm^2 s)?

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Graduate Cluster Intergalactic Gas Heating & Cooling Problem

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How Big Is the Universe?

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Undergrad Cepheid Variables in Distant Galaxies

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Graduate Questions regarding the Cause of the Universe

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Graduate Is the Light Cone a Valid Representation of Light's Behavior?

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Graduate What is the role of elasticity in space-time according to Sakharov's theory?

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High School Is Outer Space Truly Infinite? The Never-Ending Question of Exploration

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Graduate Center of the Universe - Is it Possible?

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Graduate Units problem in Keplerian equation

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Undergrad Angular Velocity and Spin/Orbital Angular Momentum of Jupiter

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High School Stationary Satellites: Can We Orbit at the Poles?

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Undergrad How many kinds of force exist between Planets?

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Undergrad Absolute Magnitude Calculation, How?

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Graduate The End of the Universe: A Black Hole Solution?

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Graduate Measurement of c using Bradley and 1905 SRT aberration models

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