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Graduate Space elevator with magnetized cable for propulsion
- Vinni
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Graduate Do gravitational waves interfere and diffract like other waves?
- Drakkith
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A Look Back at Aerospace Innovations: Celebrating National Aerospace Week
- BobG
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How to write astronomy blogs that attract readers
- Astro.padma
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Undergrad Example of a mass orbiting more massive, less luminous body?
- Deadstar
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High School Can a Planet Explode Like a Star?
- flyingpig
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Graduate How does spacetime bend around a massive object like Earth?
- cueball B
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Graduate Vega. Are Sol and Vega destined to collide?
- twistedspark
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High School Why is Kepler-16b the first circumbinary planet if others existed before?
- arjose
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Graduate What would the unified field look like at the big bang?
- easyrider
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Undergrad Can a sun rise and set on the same horizon?
- Razorback-PT
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New 3D model of solar system and night sky
- Mito111
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Undergrad Has anyone tried Victor Stenger's MonkeyGod toy universe program?
- marcus
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Graduate Can infinity fit in the palm of your hand
- YummyFur
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Graduate Effect of lunar/solar gravity on shape of earth
- daniel6874
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Colourful moon dog observed, or what?
- arildno
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Graduate Why Do Scalar Fields in Hybrid Inflation Model Diverge with Large Mixing Term?
- Accidently
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Graduate I would like to know more about the beginning of time in terms of
- nard
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Undergrad An impractical but difficult problem I stumbled upon
- bigmoneyhat
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Undergrad Mass of the core of the sun > mass of the sun?
- h1a8
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Graduate What would happen if two Earth size planets very slowly collided?
- blarznik
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Graduate Gravitational Variances in Space
- Maximilan
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Graduate How does the expansion of the universe stretch light?
- Peter Watkins
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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
- keepit
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Undergrad Earth's gravitational field size.
- tentimes10
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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
- ratiugo
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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 What do the Roman numerals in He II and O III mean in spectroscopy?
- 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 and choosing your first telescope
- Vali x
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Graduate Is the total number of CMB photons finite or infinite?
- skydivephil
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Graduate How do neutron stars emit light?
- mrspeedybob
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Undergrad What is dark energy and what is it composed of?
- GarryS
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Graduate Could exotic matter stabilize a wormhole near a black hole for safe passage?
- 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 Does size affect how time is perceived in a reference frame?
- 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 Can sunspot prediction improve solar storm warnings?
- 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
- mrspeedybob
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Graduate How far away is the cosmic event horizon for us?
- mathal
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Graduate What caused the Big Bang singularity and what existed before it?
- 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 Hawking's argument against a creator from the absence of time
- 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
- fluidistic
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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 why do some produce diffraction spikes?
- 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 What causes starquakes on neutron stars?
- 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 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 Can the laws of physics apply before the universe existed?
- 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 and its planet-sized diamond companion
- Orion1
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