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Graduate Gravitational Variances in Space

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Graduate How does the expansion of the universe stretch light?

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Graduate Where are the future background microwaves now

  • YummyFur
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Graduate The destruction of matter due to spaghettification

  • Kamon2011
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Undergrad The gravitational tug of the Sun and the Moon on Earth - a question

  • shirvanshah
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Graduate So, if space expands (measurements gets larger) in the presence of low

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Undergrad Earth's gravitational field size.

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High School Why can't Jet planes fly in space?

  • Arjun Ar
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Old news as new news. Saturn 5 years ago.

  • OmCheeto
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High School Preparing for a Career in Astrophysics: Advice for Young Scientists

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Graduate Gravity, information, and cosmology (was Thoughts about the universe )

  • mitchell porter
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Undergrad Earth Reaches Sun's Chromosphere: Timing Estimate

  • blarznik
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Undergrad Where did the freidman equation come from?

  • keepit
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Undergrad Spectroscopy: What Do He II & O III Lines Mean?

  • Piano man
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Graduate Low entropy 3 mins from big bang query

  • YummyFur
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Undergrad Super Novas Create Heavy Elements: Does this absorb or release energy?

  • tvscientist
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Star Rise and Set Times for Different Declinations?

  • SpY]
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High School Observing the new supernova in Ursa Major (M101, pinwheel galaxy)

  • tiny-tim
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Graduate Where would the observation of a static Universe have lead us?

  • Tokage
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Stargazing Aperture Fever: Cure the Astronomy Bug for Stargazing & Research

  • Vali x
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Graduate CMb Photons: Finite or Infinite?

  • skydivephil
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Graduate How do neutron stars emit light?

  • mrspeedybob
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Undergrad Unveiling the Mystery of Dark Energy

  • GarryS
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Graduate Can Wormholes Enable Safe Space Travel Despite Their Limitations?

  • Maximilan
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Graduate Is Dark Matter Denser in the Sun's Core and Does It Interact with Black Holes?

  • sweet springs
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Graduate Is there anything in our universe that we can't model with a mathematical set?

  • SeventhSigma
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Undergrad Collapsing Stars on the H-R diagram

  • Zems
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Graduate What is the Current Value of the Mass Parameter for Quintessence?

  • shadi_s10
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Constructive Overlapping Effects

  • debojoti
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Graduate Size and Time Dilation: How Perception of Time is Affected by Size | GRB

  • GammaR4yBurst
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Undergrad Questions About Universe, Time & Fire: Answers Wanted

  • Nogueira
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Graduate What does time mean in the context of BB theory?

  • Johninch
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Graduate Can we use entangled particles for instant communication in space travel?

  • Kenneth w
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Graduate Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum

  • moejoe15
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Graduate The redshift from recession or expansion

  • micomaco86572
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Graduate A Static and Eternal Universe vs The Second Law of Thermodynamics

  • Jocko Homo
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Graduate Searching for Microscopic Black Holes in the LHC

  • kcajrenreb
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Graduate Light from the big Bang/Inflation

  • Lazernugget
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Graduate Kepler's 3rd Law as a result of Newton's Laws

  • takbq2
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Graduate Early Warning System for Sunspots & Solar Storms

  • Astronuc
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Graduate The shape of black holes and their surroundings

  • motorman
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Graduate Hawking Radiation and Particle/Anti-Particle

  • chrispegg
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Undergrad How Can We See Light from Black Holes?

  • DurgeshVYadav
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Graduate Correctly calculating gravity classically.

  • Stupid Theory
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Graduate Is the Big Bang Theory a Linear Expansion or Something More Complex?

  • Jpjangz
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Undergrad How Is Non-Thermal Radiation from the Sun Detected?

  • skeptic2
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Graduate Does Vacuum Energy Drive the Expansion of the Universe?

  • hylander4
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Graduate Why the Hubble Parameter Decreases to .85 of Today's Value

  • keepit
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Graduate Dark matter as matter in parallel universes

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Graduate Furthest Visible Galaxies: Estimating the Cut-Off Point

  • mathal
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Graduate What Caused the Singularity & Is There Anything Before the Universe?

  • Astralos
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Graduate How do we determine the age and elemental composition of a star?

  • Routaran
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Graduate Chandrasekhar limit equation/white dwarf mass-radius relation

  • Monkey Face
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Graduate The universe, planck time and the game of life

  • thedragonbook
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Graduate Stephen Hawking on Discovery's curiosity

  • pkirhagis
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Graduate Can We Detect Signs of Life on Exoplanets Using Spectral Analysis?

  • cph
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Undergrad Spectrum of the Sun vs black body

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Undergrad 3D Model of the 2MASS Redshift Survey

  • Vorde
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Undergrad Mass-energy equivalence and how it relates to the content of the universe

  • smulc
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High School Is Tyche the Missing Planet in Our Solar System?

  • bguidry17
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Graduate Expansion of the Universe Violates Conservation of Energy?

  • Islam Hassan
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High School Interstellar Sighting: Who Will See It First?

  • Stanleverlock
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Graduate Cosmic inflation and gravitational waves.

  • RayYates
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Graduate Fractal dimension of the universe = 2?

  • sbrothy
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High School Is 99% of the volume of the universe empty?

  • -RA-
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High School Why do stars twinkle and what causes it?

  • nhmllr
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Graduate Does Our Inability to Perceive Beyond the Universe Mean There's Nothing There?

  • GADAMBA
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Graduate Starquakes: What are They & What Causes Them?

  • leeloshaw
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Graduate Can a Black Hole's Gravitational Field Alter Light's Path?

  • obamallama
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Graduate What is the fabric of spacetime made of?

  • Lino
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Stargazing Vendor for telescope mirror cells?

  • JeffKoch
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Graduate Supercomputer Galaxy Simulation

  • Orion1
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Graduate Unraveling the Big Bang: Questioning the Laws of the Universe

  • xanthose
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Thought I saw my first UFO today.

  • Integral
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High School Why the process of recombination is called re combination?

  • micomaco86572
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Graduate Scale invariance and bubble universes

  • PhizzicsPhan
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Graduate How do gravity and cosmological expansion strike an equilibrium?

  • cephron
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High School Why Don't We Move Backward When Jumping on a Rotating Earth?

  • sankalpmittal
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Graduate PSR J1719-1438: The Planet-Sized Diamond in Space

  • Orion1
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Undergrad How Does General Relativity Explain an Object Thrown Up Returning Back?

  • rajeshmarndi
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Stargazing What Discoveries Does the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Allow Us to Make?

  • Orion1
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Graduate Expansion of universe/what rate?

  • Lorentz Trans
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Graduate Simple Supersymmetry Bites the Dust

  • Dotini
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Undergrad Why Do Stars Flicker? Not Planets

  • shaiqbashir
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Graduate Will there be matter at the end of the universe?

  • phinds
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Graduate Antineutrinos After Big Bang: Where Are They?

  • tut_einstein
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Graduate How Can We See Light from 400K Years After the Big Bang?

  • crazyloui
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Undergrad Can You Walk on a Brown Dwarf?

  • DoggerDan
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Graduate How long does it take for a black hole to devour a star?

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High School Was the early church right and Gallelio wrong?

  • AtomicJoe
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Are all atomic particles the same age?

  • AtomicJoe
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Graduate Why is it so accepted that matter falls into black holes?

  • Astroboy123
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Graduate Geometry of the Universe: Euclidean or Hyperbolic?

  • neginf
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Undergrad How many stars does one create and how many times can stars be

  • decay33
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High School Help Identifying Unclear Object Seen Through Telescope

  • a7d07c8114
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Graduate Is the expansion rate of the universe slowing?

  • Peter Watkins
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Undergrad Tidally locked planet - shouldn't the Goldilocks zone be wider?

  • halfelven
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Graduate Zero-point energy stops space shrinking?

  • johne1618
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Graduate Size of universe at Big Bang without space?

  • Brindlethorpe
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Undergrad Infinity at the Center of the Galaxy

  • Dotini
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