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Explore the Interactive Panoramic of Space

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Graduate What Insights Can Gamma Photon Distribution in the Galaxy Provide?

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Graduate Center of Mass of Universe: Is it Nowhere, Everywhere?

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Graduate Black holes and higher dimensional universe

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High School Particle Motion 2: Floating, Flying & Moving Freely in Space

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High School French claim first habitable planet found

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Graduate H-alpha line in galaxies/ hubble redshift

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Undergrad How Does Gravity Cause Acceleration Towards a Massive Object in Space?

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Graduate Puzzled by new confirmation of dark energy

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Undergrad The mesure of distances using the redshift

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Graduate What Could Have Possibly Triggered the Big Bang?

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Undergrad Relationship between mass and surface temperature of a star

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Graduate What is Dark Energy? New Discoveries and Implications

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Graduate Why Do Some Stars Grow So Massive?

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Undergrad How Powerful Is a Supernova in Megatons?

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Undergrad Nebular Theory: Understanding Flattening Process

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High School When did humanity realize that the Sun is just another star?

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Graduate Are there undiscovered sister stars in our solar system?

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Graduate Have i made it right to determine this amounts regarding this question

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Undergrad Estimating the radius of planets

  • trina1990
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Undergrad The Mystery of Jupiter's Gravity: How Can it Eject Asteroids?

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Graduate Is Dark Energy Propelling the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?

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Undergrad Planets with No Orbit: Fascinating News

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Undergrad Server to query for sun/planets elevation at a given datetime?

  • dotancohen
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Graduate Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way

  • mersecske
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High School Imaginary Time: Explained for High School Students

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Undergrad Find Direction Between 2 Points: A & B

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Graduate Question about detailed specifics of inflation

  • phinds
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Undergrad How Does Time Connect to Space in Our Universe?

  • Cbray
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What is the Best Book for Learning About Astronomy?

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Undergrad Could Rogue Planets be an Alternative to Dark Matter?

  • lalbatros
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Graduate How Does Gravitational Time Dilation Work?

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Graduate Alright so here is another thing I do not fully

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Graduate News Article + Paper on Dark Energy

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Graduate Understanding curvature and dimensions

  • TrickyDicky
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Undergrad Outer planets always gas planets?

  • JV
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Graduate What happens to time inside a black hole?

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Graduate Expansion of the Universe: Distinguishing No.1 & No.2

  • krrazypassion
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Mysterious Red Shape on Google Earth

  • Willis666
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Undergrad What is an equal-sun-elevation day called?

  • dotancohen
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Graduate Einstein's Gravity: Challenging the Traditional Concept of Forces

  • ender_88
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Graduate What are quantum fluctuations and how could they have led to human life?

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Graduate Understanding the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe

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Graduate Wormhole Physics: Can a Single Wormhole Have Multiple Mouths?

  • Godspanther
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Graduate Can We Travel at Light Speed and Return to Earth?

  • narrator
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Graduate Antimatter: Physical Differences, Attraction & Behaviour

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What is next for the US space program?

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Undergrad What is the difference between the left and right pictures of a Quasar Core?

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High School Has a Star Collision Ever Been Observed in Our Universe?

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Graduate Why do galaxies drift apart in the expanding universe?

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Graduate Are Black Holes sufficiently characterized?

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Graduate How do I develop physical intuition for the tidal force?

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Graduate Is There a Maximum Rotational Velocity for Pulsars?

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Graduate What are the informations deducible from hubble diagram of supernova 1a?

  • humanist rho
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Graduate What is the True Nature of Space and Time?

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Graduate Big Crunch. What happens at the moment the universe changes direction?

  • dabayman
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Undergrad Asteroid Impact Crater Size: Function of Diameter

  • mersecske
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Graduate What existed before the bigbang?

  • mdmaaz
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Graduate Information about stars indeterminate?

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Undergrad How Did Ancient Civilizations Accurately Predict Astronomical Events?

  • BrockLee
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Void Theory vs. Acceleration: Expert Commentary and Refutations

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Graduate How Can Quasar Beams Emerge from Black Holes Despite the Event Horizon?

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Undergrad Measuring time in the 17th century.

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Undergrad What's the opposite of a blackhole?

  • mdmaaz
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Graduate Dark matter exerting a gravitational effect on earth?

  • albroun
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Undergrad Calculating the size of planets from length of days.

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Graduate Is the Expanding Universe Slowing Down According to Age?

  • meatym
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Undergrad Is Faster-Than-Light Space Travel Possible with New Technology?

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Graduate What Came Before the Big Bang? Exploring Pre-Universe Matter and Energy

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Graduate Draw Confidence Contours to Hubble's 1929 Data

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Undergrad Are Asteroids Outside Our Solar System and the Moon Affected by Impact Tsunamis?

  • mersecske
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Graduate Light approaching the event horizon

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High School Do Galaxies Move? Rotation Around Something?

  • mdmaaz
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Graduate A Closed Universe and the Horizon Problem

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Undergrad What are the consequences of pole reversals on Earth

  • Tokage
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Graduate Satellite's Tidal Force & Orientation: Can It Affect Interlock?

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Undergrad Do we see the universe the way it is?

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Undergrad Gravity Revisited: Earth-Moon & Earth-Sun Comparisons

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Graduate Baby Universes? - Leonard Susskind's Hyperspace Theory

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Graduate Does This Cosmological Model Re-Collapse?

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High School Expansion of the Universe and Time

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Undergrad What methods are used to CONFIRM the compisition of a star from spectral lines?

  • Tokage
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Undergrad Why the plane of the rings is vertical to the rotation axis of Saturn?

  • Chris2MIT
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Undergrad Photon Questions: Atom-Atom Travel & Purpose

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Graduate Understanding Time in Physics: Questioning the Effects of Gravity on Black Holes

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Graduate Can a collapsing star only form a black hole if it has a companion?

  • TheBlackNinja
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Graduate Thinking Outside of Space: Big Bang Theory and Beyond

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Graduate What Happens When You Increase an Extremal Black Hole's Charge?

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High School If we have two parallel plane in the space in addition to another two

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Undergrad Physics of a satellite orbiting the sun

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Undergrad Elliptic orbit of earth round the sun

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Graduate So, what is the function for the redshift z as a function of distance r?

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Graduate Need VERY recent paper in observational astronomy for journal club presentation

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Graduate Black holes and Event Horizon: Q's ?

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Graduate Was the Big Bang a Low Entropy State in the Universe?

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Graduate Understanding the Effects of Dark Matter on Galaxies: Myths vs. Facts

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Watch Family Guy: The Big Bang Theory

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High School Planets in Deep Space: Can They Escape Orbit?

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Graduate What Happens at a Black Hole Singularity?

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Stargazing What type of binoculars are best for stargazing in a light-polluted area?

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