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Undergrad Pyramids = were they pointing at supernova?

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High School Uncovering the Truth About Planet X: Debunking Myths from a Renowned Astronomer

  • Tregg Smith
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Undergrad Which Textbooks Cover Cosmology and Measuring Cosmic Distances?

  • go quantum!
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Graduate Could anti-mass explain the missing anti-matter from the big bang?

  • Fortnum
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery: The Science Behind White Light and the Sun's Spectrum

  • Cantstandit
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Undergrad Uncovering the Truth: Our Position in the Universe & Cosmic Background Radiation

  • remmeler
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Undergrad After Supernova: What Happens Next?

  • aydinmustafa
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Graduate Escaping Black Holes: Questions & Answers

  • typical guy
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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

  • mess1n
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Graduate Creating an Artificial Supernova

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

  • shirin
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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?

  • joeydendron
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Graduate Are Black Holes Matter Sprinklers?

  • Rami.Rom
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Graduate Destroy a World: Methods & Energy Requirements

  • FtlIsAwesome
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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

  • cassiek
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Graduate What fields have the hardest papers to read?

  • Simfish
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Does the Supermoon Look Different Depending on Geographical Location?

  • theitcrowd
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Graduate Orbital elements within a gravity simulator problem

  • CrLf
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Graduate Milankovitch 100,000 years cycle problem

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Could Heat Radiation Solve the Pioneer Anomaly?

  • S.Daedalus
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Graduate Light speed and time in intergalactic space

  • stilotto
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Undergrad Age of Universe: 13.7B Years & Cosmologist Qs

  • Jvonderlinn
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Graduate YAGQ (Yet Another Gravity Query)

  • Phantasia
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Graduate The True Nature of Hawking Radiation

  • cbd1
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Graduate Roger Penrose's Crazy Idea on the Big Bang

  • dm4b
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High School Is our sun part of a star cluster?

  • lilythmagebor
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Graduate Mean Equinox J2000.0: Confirm Ecliptic Plane Intersection

  • WildEnergy
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Graduate How does the universe move beyond PI?

  • LeeJeffries
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Undergrad Cold Welding: Can Asteroids Fuse?

  • lilythmagebor
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Undergrad Question: Normalforce (in the universe)?

  • Xcrypt
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Graduate Neutron Star vs Earth - Effects of a Collision

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

  • mattrix
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Undergrad Measuring Parallax Angle to the Method

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

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Graduate Escape from a black hole with another black hole?

  • CosmicVoyager
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Graduate Radio Astronomy Cold Load Question

  • racshot65
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Graduate Quantum Jitter and 120 Magnitude Prediction

  • rogerl
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Graduate Planck Mission and M-Theory Cosmology

  • dm4b
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Graduate CMB Radiation from Big Bang? Why not dark energy?

  • ericosg
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Graduate The Incredible Advances in Cosmology of the Last Decade

  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad Introduction and Questions about Asteroid Belt/Jovians

  • redwood973
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Graduate Can Moons and Exoplanets Have Ring Systems?

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Undergrad The Basics Regarding : Planetary Orbits and Whatnot

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

  • Simfish
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Undergrad Age of Universe: 13.7 Billion Years | How is it Calculated?

  • henryc09
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High School Why Does the Milky Way Appear as a Streak in the Night Sky?

  • racshot65
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Undergrad Question about recent NASA artical

  • dubsed
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Undergrad How Are Nebular Images Composed?

  • shaggywolfhou
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Undergrad Need Help Finding Information for Article

  • Moloch11
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Undergrad Universe Expansion: What Force Triggered the Big Bang?

  • filegraphy
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Undergrad Approximating Ellipse Orbits with Newton's Law

  • Chetic
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High School How did moluculair oxygen devoleped on Mercury?

  • 2ossy
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Undergrad What Was the Initial Size of the Big Bang?

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

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Question about theory of expanding universe

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

  • Darken-Sol
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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)

  • PeterReynolds
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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?

  • Drakkith
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Graduate Is it Possible to Escape a Black Hole?

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

  • sea slug
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Graduate Space time is not phisical object

  • menniandscience
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Undergrad Instant communication between great distances?

  • dollarbill220
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Undergrad Jovian planet with breathable oxygen atmosphere.

  • FtlIsAwesome
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Graduate Program for Supernova Data Fitting

  • micomaco86572
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Graduate Could we be living in a black hole?

  • Chen
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Graduate Taking issue with random walk of photon in star

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

  • SteveinLondon
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Graduate Does the Universe Have an Edge or Boundary?

  • arroy_0205
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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

  • bobsmith76
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Graduate Do redshifts really indicate expansion of the universe?

  • Lino
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Graduate My conversion with someone regarding cosmology, conclusion included

  • Baroque
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Graduate 12 year old savant provides possible debunking of Big Bang theory.

  • Museigen
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Graduate The Big Bang Theory: Was There No Space?

  • Parbat
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Graduate Is BEC still considered a viable dark matter candidate.

  • petergreat
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Graduate Equation of state for electron degenerate matter

  • aleazk
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Graduate Static spacetime as static universe

  • johank
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Undergrad Queston about the darkness of the universe

  • phinds
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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?

  • welatiger
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Graduate Is Dimensionality Frame-Dependent in Spacetime Theories?

  • J.F.
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Graduate Galaxies travelling away from each other faster than light

  • Tombo254
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Graduate Black holes can be characterized by their event horizons.

  • NOHK2710
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Graduate Planck CMB map - what to expect?

  • petergreat
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Undergrad Understanding Cosmic Distances and Time: A Question on Stellar Measurements

  • thetexan
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Graduate Will CMB ever stop being detected on Earth

  • Sleve123
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Graduate Why is Ice More Prevalent in Comets than in Early Planetary States?

  • skeleton
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Graduate Big-Bang & Inflation | R.K. Thakur | General Physics

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Graduate Thermal statistics in the hot universe

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Graduate Could a black hole be akin to a tornado in a vacuum?

  • TheSnitch
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Graduate Is there a quanta associated with dark energy?

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