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Graduate Does the empty Milne Universe have a horizon problem?

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How do you pronounce perilune and apolune

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Graduate Dark matter: gamma rays, direct detection, and solar-system tests

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Graduate What Explains the Abundance of Matter During the Annihilation Phase?

  • Cosmo Novice
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Graduate Yesterday's Nuclear Decay Related to Today's Flare

  • Dotini
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Undergrad Viewing the beginning of the universe.

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Graduate Critical density formula hides fundamental relationship?

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Graduate Is Our Universe Really Flat or is it Just Euclidean Jargon?

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Graduate 10 ^18 Amps, Universal Record for Current

  • Dotini
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Graduate Black Hole White Hole in $\Lambda$CDM Cosmology

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Graduate Extremely Advanced Materials from Manipulation of Space-time

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Graduate Presuppositions of Standard Model?

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Stargazing What telescope aperture is needed for spectroscopy of star clusters within MC?

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Graduate Could a Pre-Big Bang Civilization Have Existed?

  • Kalantir
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Undergrad Question about the Moons formation.

  • YoungDreamer
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Graduate Does the CMBR have a detectable absorption spectrum?

  • JDoolin
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Graduate Is General Relativity Wrong on Large Scales?

  • Dotini
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Undergrad Can we explore white dwarfs with robotic missions?

  • bostonnew
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Undergrad What is the case against the theory of cosmic evolution?

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Graduate Question about the expansion of the universe/inflation

  • TheIsh
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Graduate Could the Shape of the Universe be Explained by Black Holes and Supernovas?

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Graduate Black holes in the early universe

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Star gets torn apart by massive black hole

  • AntonL
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Graduate Big Bang Mystery: Where Did the Explosion Take Place?

  • QAZI
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Graduate What is retrograde planetary perihelion precession?

  • magheera
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High School How Do You Locate Saturn and Jupiter with a Medium Powered Telescope?

  • tmoan
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Astronomy & 2012: What Does It Mean?

  • esmeralda4
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Graduate Inflation, Mach's Principle & the Early Universe

  • Bob3141592
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Graduate What Role Did Electrons and Positrons Play in the Early Universe?

  • narrator
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Graduate Heat Death vs. Bounce: Which Is the True Fate of the Universe?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Big Bang Expansion: Faster than Light?

  • Cbray
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Graduate How does the Earth-Moon system gain energy despite tidal interactions?

  • AntonL
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Stargazing Solar Eclipse - Are we just lucky?

  • cramdogs
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High School Theory of the Universe - 14-Year-Old's Perspective

  • Cbray
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Graduate Black Hole - Questions (discussion)

  • Interested In
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Graduate Speed of light: making non-Newtonian physics tangible

  • dotancohen
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Graduate Accelerating Universe Expansion’s Implications? (layman’s questions)

  • shawn-m
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Graduate Is the Heat Death of the Universe Inevitable and What Can We Do About It?

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Graduate Plot of energy against space-time

  • axiomatical
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High School How would I measure the angle of a certain street from true north?

  • Ironside
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Graduate What is there actually to say of wormholes at the moment?

  • TubbaBlubba
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Model of the universe/s, multiverse's etc (just a thought nothing more )

  • great_sushi
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Undergrad Star Swallowed by Galactic Black Hole

  • RJ Emery
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Graduate Will the Expanding Universe Eventually Become Invisible?

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High School View Saturn Through a Telescope: A Noob's Guide

  • Eats Dirt
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of STEP Mission: What Happened and What's Next?

  • jumpjack
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Graduate Positions on possible parallel universe theory

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Graduate Evolution of Elementary particles?

  • Aztral
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Graduate Does the speed of light change if?

  • lawnmower man
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Graduate Would a Neutron Star Stop a Neutrino?

  • Islam Hassan
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Graduate Why are Andromeda and the Milky Way approaching each other?

  • Endervhar
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Undergrad How are Cepheids used to measure distances?

  • Mooky
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Undergrad Can we identify the generation of any star?

  • bostonnew
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High School View Saturn w/ 1100x120 Reflector: Eye Piece Guide

  • cas888
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Graduate Is the Sun Going Through a Period of Weakening?

  • Dotini
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Undergrad How Do We Calculate the Gravity of Different Particles and Celestial Bodies?

  • mvan4310
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Graduate Neutron Star to Black Hole Via OMG?

  • Islam Hassan
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Undergrad Stefans Boltzmann Law: Find Star Luminosity

  • shugar37
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Graduate Young star generations: where do they get their Hydrogen?

  • ExNihilo
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Graduate Rate and direction of expansion of the universe

  • asimov42
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Exciting Physics Projects: Get Help Choosing Your Next Project!

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Undergrad Temperature - Effect on atmospheric pressure.

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Graduate What is the evidence on Big Bang versus steady state cosmologies?

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Graduate What is CMB Rest? - Explained by Forum Experts

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Black Hole Mass Flows: Is the Balance 0%?

  • Islam Hassan
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Undergrad What is the significance of hour angle in astronomical observations?

  • randa177
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Graduate Gravitational perturbations = tidal forces?

  • Deadstar
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Graduate Is the universe entirely predictable, or is it based in probability?

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Undergrad Are Black Holes Hot? A Deeper Look

  • Cbray
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Graduate Did Gravity Exist Before the Big Bang?

  • Sylickon
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Undergrad Planet orbital location database

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Graduate Is the Universe Based on a Simple Binary Code?

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Graduate Can Black Holes be Propelled by Ion Engines?

  • cph
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Undergrad What happens when a second mars appears?

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High School Spectacular solar eruption 7 june 2011

  • AntonL
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Graduate Age of Universe: Defining Time from Big Bang

  • Chewz
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Graduate Possible non-existence of black holes and its consequences

  • stephenwlin
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Graduate Fate of Universe: Intelligent Species Impact

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Graduate What is the efficiency of the Sun, really?

  • cragwolf
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Graduate Big Bang With No Center Fallacy?

  • Islam Hassan
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High School Black Holes and their original star

  • Johnnb
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Graduate New Supernova Discovery Shines Bright

  • Astronuc
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Graduate Cosmological principle and quasar distribution

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Searching for list of measurements of moon-earth distance.

  • azoulay
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Graduate Does the Holographic Principle Suggest a Schwartzchild Radius for the Universe?

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Graduate DARK MATTER: it was always there

  • zaybu
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Graduate Big surprise - Magnetic foam at edge of heliosheath.

  • AntonL
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Graduate Varying Fine Structure Constant - Any recent results?

  • asimov42
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Graduate Interaction between dark matter and normal matter

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High School Does the temperature stay the same above a certain point?

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Graduate Where the rules change, is it sudden?

  • narrator
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Undergrad Are there any theories that explain where matter and energy came from?

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Graduate Black hole growth paradox question

  • Grinkle
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Stargazing Skywatcher Skyliner 150P Dobsonian questions

  • MartinJH
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Graduate How Does the Solar Wind's Protective Role Affect Astronomical Observations?

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Graduate Can a blackhole suck in another blackhole?

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Graduate The bounce and many universe theories

  • wolram
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Graduate Are There Other Universes Beyond Our Own?

  • revo74
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Undergrad Could the acceleration of expansion (of the universe) be an optical illusion?

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