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Undergrad Planets - Effective Temperature vs Actual Temperature

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High School Is it possible to truly escape Earth's gravitational pull?

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Undergrad Can There Be a Stable Figure-Eight Orbit Between Earth and the Moon?

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Graduate Quasars with high redshift in nearby galaxies

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Graduate Brian Greene: Hidden Reality Book

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Graduate Can We Identify the Center of Our Expanding Universe?

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Undergrad Asteroids and the formation of planets

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Real Quasar Image: Gamma Radiation Burst on Science Channel Program

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Undergrad What Happens if a Supernova's Gamma Rays Reach Earth?

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Undergrad How Does Time Dilation Affect Our Understanding of the Universe's Age?

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Graduate Ballon expansion vs raisin bread expansion

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Graduate The boundaries between individual universes

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Graduate Computing the halo mass function and the SFH

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Graduate Anti-matter vs matter at creation.

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Graduate Was Halton Arp hard done by? Need some clarification. some pictures

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Graduate Orbital effect of a sudden change to G

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High School Where can I find equatorial coordinates of celestial objects?

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High School Position of Sun at noon between the Equator and Tropic of Cancer

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Graduate What Are the Best Resources for Researching Dark Energy?

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Undergrad Can We Go "Outside the Universe"?

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Graduate Uniform redshift in inflationary model?

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Graduate Questions on Redshift, Hubble’s Law, spacetime expansion and the standard model

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High School I was watching Stephen Hawking Into the universe and he was talking

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High School If earths rotation stoped, the moon would be released.

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Graduate Hubble law&galaxies w speeds faster than light

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Undergrad Perpetual Motion: Is Cosmos an Endless Machine?

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Graduate Time Theories: Outta Universe, Relativity, Multiverse

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Graduate If gravitation is mediated via particle doesn't it mean thatthis

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Graduate Equation for the energy of Hawking Radiation

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Graduate Does the universe have an overall rotation?

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High School What happen to gravity in the center of earth

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Graduate Why do scientists believe white holes are impossible?

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Graduate Did the basic laws of physics also evolve after BB?

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Graduate Robertson-Walker metric and time expansion

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Graduate Why Do Planets with the Same Orbital Period Have the Same Average Density?

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Graduate Does velocity increase gravitation?

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Undergrad How long could it take for the Earth to be in the exact same place as it was?

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Graduate Could Dinosaurs Weigh Less Due to Ancient Gravitational Forces?

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Graduate Is Our Universe Based on Finite Geometry?

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Graduate Magnetism and Ampere-Maxwell's law

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What is Dark Matter? | Just Curious

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Graduate Is LQC compatible with dark energy?

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Graduate Chasing the edge of the universe?

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Does peace occur before real space travel ?

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Stargazing What is the advantage of a binocular telescope (such as the LBT)?

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High School How Long Does Earth Rotate Around the Earth-Moon Barycentre?

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Undergrad Emission line in spectrum of a sun

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Graduate What happens when a ray of light hits the boundary of the universe?

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Graduate How do collisions affect the evolution of objects in the Oort cloud?

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Graduate Matter creation, dark energy, and the possibility of a Big Crunch

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High School Help a Physics Amateur - See Attachment!

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Graduate Early universe: equilibrium before nucleosynthesis

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Graduate The Value of the Cosmological Constant

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Graduate Theorists predicted the big bang to expand faster than the speed of light

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Graduate How often do small asteroids reach the Earth's solid surface?

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Graduate Can a star with a black hole core be stable?

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Graduate What is the total mass of the heliosphere approximately? And its

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Graduate How Do CMBR Variations Differ Across Planets?

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Undergrad Redshift: Speed of Light & Beyond?

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Undergrad Why does gravity make things spin?

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Undergrad How to Calculate Angular Diameter of a Galaxy with a Given Diameter?

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Graduate The properties of light over time/distance

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Graduate Spacetime, like an isometric weather map?

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Graduate Calculating the density of a HII region

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Undergrad What Data is Needed to Understand the Formation of Black Hole Jets?

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Undergrad Big Bang Theory: Is Everything Energy?

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Mars Age Two to Four Million Years?

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Graduate Will the speed of light change in the Universe's distant future?

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Graduate Space expansion vs. time speeding up

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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Rate Actually Slowing Down?

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Graduate Aussie Student Solves Mystery of Missing Mass in Universe

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Undergrad Star density, outside our galaxy

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Graduate Is Dark Energy Tearing Us Apart Atom by Atom?

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Graduate When will we be able to image the Oort cloud?

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Graduate Does My Vision of the Big Bang Reflect Mainstream Scientific Theories?

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Graduate Is GRB090429b at the Edge of the Observable Universe?

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Stargazing Most powerful telescope system of the future?

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Graduate N-Body simulation: MERCURY vs. Swift

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Graduate What are the properties of electron gas in the Sun?

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Undergrad Is AMS-02 Truly a Game-Changer in Space Exploration?

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Undergrad Cosmology History: Timeline, Discoveries & Current Theories

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High School Unraveling the Mystery of the Moon's Non-Spinning Rotation

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Undergrad Distribution of planets material

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Graduate Cold Dark Matter vs Hot Dark Matter

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Undergrad Milky Way: Star & H-Atom Distribution

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Undergrad What Does It Mean for the Universe to Be Flat?

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Undergrad Atmospheric Surface Pressure and Density

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Undergrad Asteroid Density & Impact Rate - Earth vs Mars

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Undergrad What is the binding energy needed to shatter Earth by asteroid impact?

  • mersecske
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Undergrad Simulation of formation of a solar system

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Graduate Why Does Angular Diameter Distance Decrease After Redshift z=1.5?

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Graduate A puzzling thought about the Big Bang & after

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Graduate Deriving the Relation for Escape Velocity from a Proto-Star Cloud

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Graduate Cosmological Models Predicting Heat Death of the Universe

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Undergrad Determining the mass of globular cluster?

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Graduate Entropy and the big bang on to the big crunch and back

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High School Lifetime of Earth: Planet vs Sun

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Graduate How this equality exist between time and distance and the velocity

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Undergrad Universe Today: What Does It Look Like?

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High School Discovering Binary Universe: Albert Einstein & Beyond

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