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Undergrad Is the Shapiro time delay effect accepted in science ?
- guacamolewar
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Graduate Can Radar Be Used to Map Distant Planets?
- Vinni
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High School Comet Death Dive Into Sun Seen in Detail for 1st Time
- Astronuc
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Graduate Hydrostatic Equilibrium in an Accretion Disc
- Jamipat
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Undergrad Venus: Slowing Rotation Detected by Venera, Magellan, and Venus Express
- Dotini
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Undergrad How Do You Convert Proton Flux from 1/(cm^2 s sr) to 1/(cm^2 s)?
- nykon
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Graduate Why do galaxy cluster gas clouds stay hot instead of cooling?
- Saul
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How Big Is the Universe?
- Ryan_m_b
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Undergrad Cepheid Variables in Distant Galaxies
- Ty1erC
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Graduate Questions regarding the Cause of the Universe
- Rtztgue
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Graduate Is the Light Cone a Valid Representation of Light's Behavior?
- zarmewa
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Graduate What is the role of elasticity in space-time according to Sakharov's theory?
- Fuzzy Logic
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High School Does infinite space mean Earth has been created infinitely many times?
- blckndgldfn
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Graduate Center of the Universe - Is it Possible?
- superdave
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Graduate Units problem in Keplerian equation
- solarblast
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Undergrad Angular Velocity and Spin/Orbital Angular Momentum of Jupiter
- theKeeblerElf
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High School Can a satellite remain stationary over Earth's poles?
- Grimstone
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Undergrad How many kinds of force exist between Planets?
- oem7110
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Undergrad Absolute Magnitude Calculation, How?
- capcom
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Graduate The End of the Universe: A Black Hole Solution?
- Abidal Sala
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Graduate Measurement of c using Bradley and 1905 SRT aberration models
- Ken More
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Undergrad Does the observable universe lie within the unobservable universe?
- Lensman
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Graduate Gauss's Law and Magnetic Reconnection
- Aurora Austra
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Graduate Phase-space structures in plasma turbulence
- maxime.lesur
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Graduate Could a neutron star fragment survive entering Earth's atmosphere?
- 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?
- fellupahill
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Graduate Do massless particles always travel at the speed of light?
- 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?
- redrum419_7
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Undergrad Why the sun didn't absorb heavy elements from early solar system?
- arman4
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Graduate Why do planets at different distances see 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
- Bobbywhy
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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
- Theoretically
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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 Does the expansion cutoff in equations prevent distant universe parts from affecting us?
- jensel
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Graduate Can colliding branes explain the Big Bang evidence?
- 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
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Undergrad How do ISS occupants survive exposure to coronal mass ejections?
- 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
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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 Why does the Moon control Earth's tides if the Sun's gravity is stronger?
- 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
- bagheraa
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Undergrad Video Games and Their Basis in Theory
- cjackson
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Graduate Could the universe be infinite beyond what we can observe?
- 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 Why does the space-time curvature analogy show orbits in all directions?
- 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 Does telescope resolution depend on contiguous mirror area?
- Drakkith
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Graduate What Steps Are Missing in Deriving Pogson's Law?
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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.
- the ads 13
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High School Is the Solar Snake or helical helix theory of planetary motion valid?
- esj001
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Graduate How inflation can give rise to irregularities
- houhou.trad
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Undergrad When will 1000 humans have left Earth's surface?
- 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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Origin of the precession matrix shown
- 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 How do Cracovian matrices 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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