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Graduate Was the Big Bang a Low Entropy State in the Universe?
- johne1618
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Graduate Does dark matter only affect galaxy rotation speeds, not galaxy stability?
- phinds
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Watch Family Guy: The Big Bang Theory
- EMFsmith
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High School Can planets escape their orbit?
- binbots
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Graduate What Happens at a Black Hole Singularity?
- mdmaaz
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Stargazing What type of binoculars are best for stargazing in a light-polluted area?
- joej24
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Graduate Can the universe evolve while in superposition?
- Varon
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Graduate Why do we have more electrons than positrons?
- mathman
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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 in color and intensity or just apparent brightness?
- 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 Does time dilation prevent anything from crossing the event horizon?
- 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 How long could a false vacuum with a 125 GeV Higgs last?
- 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 Are galaxy and nebula colors in images false-color representations?
- 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 Using muons as a telescope to study cosmic emissions
- LKD_
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Undergrad How do I determine which focus of an elliptical orbit has the star?
- 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 Is dark energy simply vacuum energy from special relativity?
- scottbekerham
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Leading researchers in black hole, wormhole, and 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 Is intrinsic redshift still studied today?
- 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 If a wormhole has one end inside a black hole's event horizon, what happens?
- 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 How has cosmology led to practical applications?
- 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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Wolfgang Kloehr's supernova discovery in M51 with new equipment
- russ_watters
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Affordable green laser pointer for stargazing
- dotancohen
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Graduate Could many large stars collide to form a megastar?
- Willis666
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Undergrad Why don't the laws of physics change when matter density changes?
- h1ghf1ve
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Graduate Were the First Stars in the Universe Fast Spinners?
- JaredJames
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Undergrad How can amateur astronomers discover new astronomical objects?
- nukeman
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Graduate Does light speed vary in different gravitational situations?
- narrator
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Graduate Do black holes and wormholes connect, and how would acceleration feel inside one?
- narrator
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Graduate Wiltshire's Timescape model been refuted?
- Jorrie
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Graduate Calculating heat received by 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 Equation for calculating planet ellipticity from density and rotation
- arakish
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Graduate Where does photon energy go in expanding space?
- 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 Publishing a space debris removal idea using a space elevator
- Eagle9
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High School What do MAX ELEV, APPROACH, and DEPARTURE mean for ISS spotting?
- iamBevan
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Undergrad Does Traveling Through a Wormhole Violate the Law of Conservation of Mass?
- permapoop
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Undergrad Where did the initial conditions for the Big Bang come from?
- 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 Modeling stellar wobble from planetary gravity for precalc project
- robotoop
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Stargazing Why can this telescope only focus on very near objects?
- Harlan
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Graduate Does moving mass distort spacetime differently than stationary mass?
- 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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