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Graduate Origin of Electrons: Big Bang & Annihilation

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Graduate What Would You See at the Threshold of the Expanding Universe?

  • Wazkick3n
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High School Do Stars Flicker Colour & Intensity in the Night Sky?

  • dacruick
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Graduate Expansion of the Universe question

  • Angry Citizen
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Graduate Molecular Cloud Clumping Question

  • Vorde
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Graduate Could Black Holes Be Collapsed Dimensions Rather Than Massive Gravity Events?

  • edsousaphone
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Undergrad [QUESTION]Dark energy could it be an explosion?

  • Harry Gillman
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Graduate [Question] What would happen if gravity were removed?

  • MemoryLapse
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Graduate Does space-time form a closed manifold around a black hole?

  • Imax
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Is There a Correct Way to View the Universe?

  • MartinJH
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Graduate Argument against the existence of black holes?

  • diewlasing
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Undergrad Will the Moon's Recession from Earth Ever Cease?

  • Studious_stud
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Graduate Very targeted question on multiple universes hypotheses

  • phinds
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Graduate Vacuum Metastability: Estimating the Lifespan of a False Vacuum”

  • physics9c
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Graduate What does tidal gravity feel like?

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Graduate If the universe were sparked again

  • 1MileCrash
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Graduate How does inflation drive omega close to 1?

  • j9500
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High School Float & Fly Freely: Differentiating Space & Earth

  • karawan
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Planet positions and gravitational effects

  • Akfine
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Graduate Separation of Multiple Universes?

  • BoltzmanBrain
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Graduate Is Gravity Truly Omnipresent and Can It Exist Without Mass?

  • Jake Minneman
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Graduate Is Time Truly the Fourth Dimension in Spacetime?

  • Museigen
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Graduate Gravitational Red Shift at the center of a mass

  • j bramblejam
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Graduate Primordial Black Hole as nucleus for gravitic atom

  • matmos101
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Graduate Are Hot Jupiters in Stable Orbital Resonance?

  • cph
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of the Sun's Composition and the Fate of Matter Within

  • moejoe15
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Graduate How Much Potassium Nitrate is Needed to Propel a 10 kg Rocket into Orbit?

  • Guywithstick
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Undergrad Can We See All Galaxies in the Universe?

  • karl22
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Good wallpaper pics of our red sun from earth

  • bugatti79
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Undergrad Question about the color of galaxies & nebulae

  • phinds
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Graduate Determine body properties by visual spectrum?

  • bhoom
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Graduate Extracting Energy from Cosmic Expansion

  • Shovel
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Graduate What is the most detailed analysis of the very early universe?

  • ficodr
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Stargazing Muon Telescope: The Universe's Secrets

  • LKD_
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Undergrad Elliptical Orbit: Determine Foci & Missile Path

  • llandau
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High School Are There Any Other Educational Video Series Like 'The Mechanical Universe'?

  • kraphysics
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Undergrad The orbital eccentricity change of the Earth ?

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Learning Basics of Stellar Modelling

  • jon
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Graduate Could Vacuum Energy Be the Key to Understanding Dark Energy?

  • scottbekerham
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Who's the Top Expert in Black Hole & Time Travel Theories?

  • SunnyCA
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I need someone who knows what nebulae look like well to look at these

  • rollcast
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Graduate Intrinsic Redshift: Current Status and Research

  • lavinia
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Graduate Habitable exoplanets of white dwarfs

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Graduate Lone wolf planets able to support subglacial ocean life?

  • marcus
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Graduate Mass Dispersion of Observable Universe

  • tamousfleck
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High School Recent Supernova Sightings: Dates, Times, and Visibility

  • Darken-Sol
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Graduate Low mass post-main-sequence on HR diagram

  • Zorba
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Graduate A problem from Binney and Tremaine

  • krishna mohan
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Graduate Decreasing entropy of the universe

  • cansay27
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Graduate What Happens When a Wormhole Ends Inside a Black Hole?

  • athv_gr
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A photon and a neutrino go into a bar

  • Subluminal
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Graduate Before the big bang the entire universe must have been a black hole.

  • mdmaaz
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Undergrad Practical Cosmology: Examples of How it Helps Our Ventures

  • narrator
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Graduate Galactic angular velocity of interstellar cloud

  • bmace
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High School Why do comets tails come out of the front and curve around to the back?

  • Cbray
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Graduate Is Infinity Plausible in the Universe?

  • Lightning-Rod
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Novice Astrophotographer Discovers Supernova

  • russ_watters
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Laser pointer for start viewing: something affordable?

  • dotancohen
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Graduate Creating a MMO in the Universe: Spacetime Online

  • Willis666
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Undergrad Could the Laws of Physics Change in a Universe with Different Matter Density?

  • h1ghf1ve
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Graduate Were the First Stars in the Universe Fast Spinners?

  • JaredJames
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Undergrad How can you discover new things in Astronomy without a PhD ?

  • nukeman
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Graduate Does light speed vary in different gravitational situations?

  • narrator
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Graduate Black Holes and Wormholes: Fact or Fiction?

  • narrator
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Graduate Wiltshire's Timescape model been refuted?

  • Jorrie
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Graduate How to Calculate the Heat Received by Newly Discovered Extrasolar Planets?

  • gabe69
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Graduate Is the edge of our universe within our reach?

  • unknownperson
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Undergrad Would enough inert rock clumped together form a black hole ?

  • phinds
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Undergrad Acceleration in elliptical orbits ?

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Looking for reading material on extrasolar planet detection

  • Deadstar
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Graduate Expansion of space (conceptual question)

  • Elwin.Martin
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High School Does moving at high speeds actually slow down time?

  • athrax
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Graduate Project in cosmology or theoretical particle physics ?

  • sam_021
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Graduate Meteor radiant angle. Is this computation right?

  • solarblast
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Undergrad Intro and a Question About Ellipticity

  • arakish
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Graduate Redshift from space expansion, & conservation of energy?

  • CosmicVoyager
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Graduate What Should Be Discussed in a Report on Core Collapse of Massive Stars?

  • tonysilva
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Undergrad Space Debris Removal: Where to Publish Idea?

  • Eagle9
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High School Help with trying to spot the ISS

  • iamBevan
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Undergrad Does Traveling Through a Wormhole Violate the Law of Conservation of Mass?

  • permapoop
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Undergrad What were the starting materials of the Big Bang?

  • Mitchtwitchita
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Graduate Star variable relations. In need of further insight

  • Geonaut
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Stargazing Huge difference between a 6 dobsonian and a 10 ?

  • erok81
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Undergrad Is the Old Model of the Universe Still Valid?

  • binbots
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Graduate Time according to whom, after the big bang?

  • komodekork
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High School Help with Modeling Solar Wobble for Pre-Calc Project

  • robotoop
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Stargazing Why can this telescope only focus on very near objects?

  • Harlan
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Graduate Does Movement of Masses Distort Spacetime Differently?

  • AbsoluteChaos
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Graduate Is the Universe Infinite and Flat in Cosmology?

  • Cosmo Novice
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Graduate Where's the energy go for planets axis inclined from orbital plane?

  • Emu
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Undergrad Start Learning Cosmological Math Today

  • narrator
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Graduate How Does Frame Dragging Affect Light Speed Observations?

  • narrator
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Undergrad What is the role of gravity in superclusters?

  • ajgrebel
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Undergrad How Kepler derived that T^2 is proportional to r^3

  • parsa418
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Graduate How much of galaxy redshift is due to gravity?

  • very_curious
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High School What an Expanding Universe Looks Like

  • FeDeX_LaTeX
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Graduate Can Galaxies Have Two Nuclei Without Merging?

  • chris2112
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Graduate Better Hubble Constant through Parallax?

  • Subluminal
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High School Odds of Finding Alien Life: An Exploration

  • Rocketjj
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Graduate Is Noether's theorem applicable to the expanding universe?

  • quin dexter
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