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Undergrad Pyramids = were they pointing at supernova?
- Chaballa
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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?
- wllsrvive
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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
- wolram
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Graduate Thermal statistics in the hot universe
- Accidently
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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?
- ensabah6
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