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Undergrad Hello and a question about our universe

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Graduate Gauss's Law and Magnetic Reconnection

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Graduate Phase-space structures in plasma turbulence

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Graduate Can a Neutron Star Fragment Become a Meteor and Survive on Earth?

  • waterfall
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Graduate Can a Gravity Lens Loop Amplify Distant Objects in Space?

  • Pronoein
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Graduate Why the universe appears to have one time and three space dimensions

  • Micheal McG
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Graduate Universe as a cellular automaton

  • Terrr
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Undergrad How Do You Measure Gas Leaks in Space?

  • Billionaires
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Graduate Rest frames in the early universe?

  • Karl Coryat
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Real pictures of black hole eating a star?

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Graduate The Quark Epoch and the Existence of Space and Mass

  • Karl Coryat
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Graduate Does Dark Flow Challenge the Big Bang Theory?

  • fellupahill
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Is the Flash Scale of the Universe Animation Still Relevant?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Dark Energy: Questions on Uniform Energy Density

  • MackBowen
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Undergrad Can anyone provide valuable information on dark flow for my astronomy paper?

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Undergrad Why the sun didn't absorb heavy elements from early solar system?

  • arman4
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Graduate How Can Two Planets Observe Different Redshifts from the Same Star?

  • ch@rlatan
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Scale of the Universe: Zoom-In, Zoom-Out Animation for Kids

  • Constantinos
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From the Planck length to the Observable Universe

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Graduate Uniformity of Distance - Is It Possible to Prove?

  • DarkFalz
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Graduate All matter being liquid in 10^65 years if proton decay doesn't occur.

  • Dremmer
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Graduate Frame-Dragging, Density and Space-time Distortion

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Undergrad Is Iron Truly the Heaviest Element Formed in Stars?

  • manenbu
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Undergrad When a star loses its mass, do the orbital radii of the planets increase?

  • kd001
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Graduate Does Galactic Rotation Cause Frame Dragging?

  • H2Bro
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High School Way Way Bigger than Canis Majoris?

  • SYahoo
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Graduate How is universe curvature measured?

  • minio
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Undergrad Acceleration of spaceships with different masses?

  • GTOM
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Graduate Cosmology: Expansion & Its Impact on Us - Jens

  • jensel
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Graduate Debunking the Big Bang Theory: Colliding Branes as a Possible Alternative

  • stglyde
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Undergrad Blackholes and expanding universe

  • veejay
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Undergrad What is the Semi Major Axis of a Binary Star System?

  • goldsax
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Undergrad Precession-Jumping from 1875 to 1950

  • solarblast
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Undergrad How do Occupants of the ISS Survive a CME

  • RJ Emery
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Undergrad Gyroscopic effect on planetary motion

  • R Power
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Graduate Is Faster Than Light Travel Possible Through Controlled Space Expansion?

  • knicely
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Undergrad How massive/hot does a star have to be for fusion to occur

  • ugalpha
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Graduate What happened before the BIG BANG, Roger Penrose's Theory

  • aznasdf
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Undergrad Motions of stars inside elliptical galaxies?

  • dougettinger
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Undergrad Earth at the center of the Universe

  • ugalpha
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Graduate Is Paul Steinhardt's Statement "Rather Pathetic"? Why?

  • marcus
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Graduate Top Biosignatures for exo planet spectra

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Might NGC 1073 have a non-coplanar bar and spiral arms?

  • Paulibus
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Undergrad Search patterns in observational studies

  • stargazer3
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High School Which Has a Greater Gravitational Pull on Earth: Sun or Moon?

  • Natko
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Graduate Is the Acceleration of the Universe Expansion accelerating?

  • Swimmingly!
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Graduate Space, matter and physical models

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Undergrad Video Games and Their Basis in Theory

  • cjackson
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Graduate Big Bang Non-Locality: Evidence for an Infinite Universe?

  • Irishwake
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High School Why don't shooting stars make a noise?

  • shifty88
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Undergrad The Sun with a planet with a moon with a satellite

  • Loren Booda
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High School What is a Geomagnetic Storm and How Does it Affect Earth?

  • timacho
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Graduate Need Help Understanding Mass/Bent Space-Time

  • sirnamemr
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Graduate Heat death, quantum uncertainty and Feynman's Path Integral

  • Zedhex
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Graduate Which theory accurately explains the effect of gravity on light?

  • thetexan
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Graduate Detecting hydrogen inside IMC's and GMC's

  • dougettinger
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Graduate Are Void Centers Ultra-Massive Primordial Black Holes?

  • David Paul
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Graduate What is the nature of space and time?

  • Dremmer
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Stargazing Telescope Resolution: Max Res with Pieced Mirrors?

  • Drakkith
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Graduate What Steps Are Missing in Deriving Pogson's Law?

  • 71GA
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Graduate What Distinguishes the t=0 Singularity from a Black Hole Singularity?

  • ugalpha
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High School When did black holes first started to appear in the universe?

  • phy_freak
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Graduate Is Dark Matter the Result of the Big Bang?

  • phy_freak
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Undergrad What acceleration of universe means?

  • minio
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Graduate Star whose pressure support is degenerate electrons.

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High School Anyone heard of the solar snake Solar system theory?

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Graduate How inflation can give rise to irregularities

  • houhou.trad
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Undergrad Life on Earth: The Future of Humanity and the Impact of Space Exploration

  • Algren
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Graduate The quantum based calculation of the cosmological constant

  • salvestrom
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Undergrad At what volumetric flow rate will air fill a space vacuum at Earth's STP?

  • rcoopster
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Graduate The diffence between expanding universe and light slowing?

  • Edward Solomo
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Does anyone recognize this precession matrix?

  • solarblast
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Undergrad Computing the period of a meteor using two ways.

  • solarblast
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Undergrad Redshift as evidence of expansion

  • dpa
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Graduate Effects of Solar Flares on the Moon and Equiptment used for lunar exploration

  • MonserrateM
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Undergrad Cracovians Anyone? How do they work?

  • solarblast
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Graduate How can a 1-dimensional being prove they live on a circle?

  • ugalpha
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Graduate The history of orbital element methods

  • solarblast
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Undergrad Finding the position of an object 1800 years ago?

  • solarblast
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Undergrad Why Is the JUICE Mission Targeting Ganymede Instead of Europa?

  • skydivephil
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Undergrad Number of Planets with Circular Orbits: Probability & Science

  • Algren
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Graduate Is the Universe Expanding Into 4th Dimension?

  • Snip3r
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High School Will we always be in observation mode?

  • Vyom
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Graduate Girl Reaches 99.9% of Train's Speed Despite Time Slowing Down

  • Grimstone
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Graduate Calculating kinetic energy of all matter

  • jimjohnson
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Graduate Is the Universe Losing Energy and Heading Towards an Unfortunate End?

  • Algren
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Graduate Could the solar system have formed directly on the site of a supernova?

  • ericwdhs
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Graduate How can galxies and dwarf galaxies be made of regular AND dark matter?

  • fellupahill
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Undergrad Calculating Velocity & Axes of Planetary Orbits

  • smize
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Graduate Cosmological constant supports MOND

  • jimjohnson
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Graduate What would be some creative ways to make a black hole?

  • Antientrophy
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Graduate Are the Laws of the Universe Influenced by the Structure of Our Brains?

  • Ossama
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Graduate Did Time Begin with the Big Bang?

  • Khursed
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Undergrad The Milky Way from the Andromeda Galaxy: Edge-on, Spiral, or In-Between?

  • Fozzie
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Undergrad Kepler Exoplanet findings and galactic plane question

  • Ed Zachary
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Graduate Atmosphere on a hypothetical tidally-locked Earth

  • cephron
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Graduate Toroidal Universe: A 2003 Analysis

  • mathman
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Graduate What happened to the center of the universe?

  • Greylorn
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Graduate Do nebula's move? (Help calculating where things will be in the future)?

  • piareround
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Graduate Maximum Wind Speeds and Atmosphere Loss on Small Planets

  • LKD_
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