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Graduate What is the impact of life on Earth and its environment?

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Graduate Psr b1913+16: Impact of Periastron Epoch Change on Orbital Period Rate

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Graduate Is the standard model of cosmology unfalsifiable like religion?

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Graduate If wormholes connect two areas in spacetime, wouldn't that require 5

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Graduate Friedmann Equation demonstration - Liddle

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Graduate Inflaton Field, Cosmological Constants and Spacetime

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Graduate Mechanism for Gammaray Bursts (computer sim shows neutron star merger works)

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Graduate Can You See a Parallel Universe Through a Black Hole?

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Undergrad Pyramids = were they pointing at supernova?

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High School Why would we detect an undiscovered planet from its gravitational effects?

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Undergrad Which Textbooks Cover Cosmology and Measuring Cosmic Distances?

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Graduate Could anti-mass explain the missing anti-matter from the big bang?

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Undergrad Why does the sun emit a continuous spectrum if only hydrogen and helium are present?

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Undergrad Why do we see cosmic microwave background radiation equally in all directions?

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Undergrad After Supernova: What Happens Next?

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Graduate Can light escape a black hole's event horizon through tidal forces or cosmic expansion?

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Graduate Why artificial gravity is not possible?

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Graduate Star and planet formation according to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics

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Graduate Creating an Artificial Supernova

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Graduate Understanding Boltzman Equation: Probability of Energy in an Ideal Gas

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Graduate Do Singularities Prove Actual Infinities Exist?

  • Matt1128Y
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Stargazing Will Ultra Advanced Telescopes Enable Real-Time Planetary Surface Imaging?

  • stany
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Undergrad Could a life made of antimatter interact with a life made of matter?

  • Dremmer
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Graduate Is the Hubble Deep Field evidence for inflation in the early universe?

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Graduate Are Black Holes Matter Sprinklers?

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Graduate Energy required to destroy a terrestrial planet or moon

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Stargazing Pleasure of owning a telescope a telescope

  • Dr know
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Graduate Plutonium - the last ironic trace of civilization?

  • cph
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Graduate Is computer simulation the simplest explanation of our universe?

  • mistergrinch
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High School The Universal Gravitational Constant G

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Graduate What fields have the hardest papers to read?

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Does the Supermoon Look Different Depending on Geographical Location?

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Graduate Orbital elements within a gravity simulator problem

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Graduate Milankovitch 100,000 years cycle problem

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Could Heat Radiation Solve the Pioneer Anomaly?

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Graduate Light speed and time in intergalactic space

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Undergrad Age of Universe: 13.7B Years & Cosmologist Qs

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Graduate Why don't rings spread or coalesce under gravity?

  • Phantasia
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Graduate Why does the black hole preferentially absorb antiparticles in Hawking radiation?

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Graduate Roger Penrose's Crazy Idea on the Big Bang

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High School Is our sun part of a star cluster?

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Graduate Mean Equinox J2000.0: Confirm Ecliptic Plane Intersection

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Graduate How does the universe move beyond PI?

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Undergrad Do asteroids fuse when they collide in space?

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Undergrad Question: Normalforce (in the universe)?

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Graduate Neutron Star vs Earth - Effects of a Collision

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Graduate What Do Epoch J2000.0 Orbital Elements Tell Us About Earth's Orbit?

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Undergrad Measuring Parallax Angle to the Method

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Undergrad Sky seen from a planet orbiting a star in intergalactic void

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Graduate Escape from a black hole with another black hole?

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Graduate Radio Astronomy Cold Load Question

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Graduate Quantum Jitter and 120 Magnitude Prediction

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Graduate Planck Mission and M-Theory Cosmology

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Graduate CMB Radiation from Big Bang? Why not dark energy?

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Graduate The Incredible Advances in Cosmology of the Last Decade

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Undergrad Introduction and Questions about Asteroid Belt/Jovians

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Graduate Can Moons and Exoplanets Have Ring Systems?

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Undergrad Why are orbits elliptical rather than circular?

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Undergrad How quickly did American researchers get data from Soviet probes like Venera?

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Undergrad How is the age of the universe calculated across different reference frames?

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High School Why Does the Milky Way Appear as a Streak in the Night Sky?

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Undergrad Low density bubble in Hubble expansion article

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Undergrad How Are Nebular Images Composed?

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Undergrad Converting supervoid sizes from megaparsecs to light years

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Undergrad What force triggered the Big Bang singularity to expand?

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Undergrad Approximating Ellipse Orbits with Newton's Law

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High School How did moluculair oxygen devoleped on Mercury?

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Undergrad What Was the Initial Size of the Big Bang?

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Graduate Is 13 Billion Years Enough for Carbon Abundance in the Universe?

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Graduate Could redshift be from cooler stars rather than cosmic expansion?

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Undergrad Expansion of the Universe: Is There a Way to Tell?

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Undergrad Why Don't Jet Airplanes Heat Up Like Probes Re-entering Earth's Atmosphere?

  • cj
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Graduate A question for people smarter than myself 8)

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Graduate Relativistic Mass and high relative Velocity of distant galaxies

  • Tanelorn
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Graduate How Do Supernovae Lead to Black Hole Formation?

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Graduate Is it Possible to Escape a Black Hole?

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Undergrad Why do the lowest tides follow the full moon by a few days?

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Graduate Space time is not phisical object

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Undergrad Instant communication between great distances?

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Undergrad Jovian planet with breathable oxygen atmosphere.

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Graduate Program for Supernova Data Fitting

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Graduate Could we be living in a black hole?

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Graduate Taking issue with random walk of photon in star

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Graduate Does expansion of spacetime also stretch amplitude of light waves?

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Graduate Does the Universe Have an Edge or Boundary?

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Graduate What is the truth about radiation pressure in stars?

  • Ken G
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Graduate Phase-Space volume V - Roger Penrose

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Graduate Do redshifts really indicate expansion of the universe?

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Graduate My conversion with someone regarding cosmology, conclusion included

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Graduate Can a 12-year-old's theory challenge the Big Bang?

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Graduate Did space and time exist before the Big Bang?

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Graduate Is BEC still considered a viable dark matter candidate.

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Graduate Equation of state for electron degenerate matter

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Graduate Static spacetime as static universe

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Undergrad Queston about the darkness of the universe

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Graduate Do the conditions created by the LHC accurartely simulate the big bang?

  • BernieM
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High School Is Cosmology the Same as Cosmic Rays?

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Graduate Is Dimensionality Frame-Dependent in Spacetime Theories?

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Graduate Galaxies travelling away from each other faster than light

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Graduate Black holes can be characterized by their event horizons.

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