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Graduate Maximizing Telescope Performance: Evaluating Apparent Field with CCD Camera

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Undergrad Does Light Take Longer to Reach Us Through a Gravitational Lens?

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High School Ecliptic, Celestial equator and horizon?

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Graduate Exploring the Prime Mover: Philosophy vs Physics

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Graduate Redshift and Universal Expansion

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Undergrad What Is the Shape and Expansion of the Universe?

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Graduate Why doesn't dark matter fall into black holes ?

  • Robin
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Graduate Inhabiting gaseus planets (such as Jupiter,

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Graduate Can the big bang be explained by a rearrangement of nothing?

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Graduate Looking for simple answers gravity and time

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Graduate Is expansion a result of gravity?

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Undergrad Which model of the Universe is most accurate according to Alan Watts?

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Graduate What's a natal kick in reference to astrophysics?

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Graduate Is time stopped inside a black hole?

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Undergrad Why is the Milky Way a bared galaxy?

  • Imax
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Graduate Matter Falling to a Black Hole's Event Horizon

  • Jonathan Cohn
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Graduate What will the universe be composed of

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Graduate How long does it take a black hole to gain seven billion solar masses?

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Undergrad What is the relevance in knowing that the universe for example is expanding?

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Graduate Consequences of Chicxulub impact

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Graduate A new cosmological model (re are we living in a black hole)

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Graduate Timing of the big bounce in eternal inflation

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Undergrad In which direction in the sky are we headed?

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Graduate What is the trigonometric parallax of a binary system?

  • shirin
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Graduate How Large Could a Virga-Style Enclosure Be Before Collapsing?

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Graduate How Do Atoms in Collapsing Stars Remain Stable Before Becoming Singularities?

  • tanzanos
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Undergrad Extraterrestrial sky color based on atmospheric composition and sun color

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High School Physics In Space Assignment - Year 12

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Graduate What is Accretion Induced Collapse and its Relationship with Type IA Supernovae?

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Graduate Does logic hold true outside our reality (spacetime)?

  • mitcho
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Undergrad What is the Angular Extent of Trigonometric Parallax?

  • mahsa
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Undergrad Olbers Paradox and The Sherwood Forest

  • Acili
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Graduate What Caused Inflation to Cease in the Early Universe?

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Graduate Critical Density: What Is It and Where Does It Come From?

  • LSulayman
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Undergrad E-Classifying Orbits: Learn How to Numerically Categorize Orbits

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The Pale Blue Dot: Reflecting on Our Place in the Universe

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Graduate Value for redshift change in acceleration

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Undergrad Calculating Acceleration Due to Gravity in a Galaxy

  • Bjarne
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Graduate 'Normal universe' a special case?

  • BernieM
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Undergrad Planets Surviving Black Hole Formation: A Scientific Inquiry

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Undergrad Retrograde Motion: How Tilting of Moon Affects Revolution

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Graduate Equation Help: Gravitationally Bound Rubble Pile Asteroid Orbit

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Undergrad Where can I find theoretical isochrones?

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Graduate Understanding Solar Radiation Force: Maths & Derivation

  • UniPhysics90
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Graduate What gave rise to cosmic inflation of the early Universe?

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Graduate What Are the Common Misconceptions About the Big Bang Theory?

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Graduate Bad astronomy in massive star luminosity

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Graduate Is Gravitomagnetism attractive does it have important long range attraction?

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Graduate Is the Universe a Black Hole?

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Graduate Theorize Possible Colonization on Europa

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Undergrad Evidence that the Universe is Expanding?

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Undergrad Find FWHM: Pixel Values, Gaussian Curve, Standard Deviation

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Undergrad How many pages of astrophysics textbooks can you absorb in a day?

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Graduate Wormhole Creation: Theoretical Methods and Questions

  • TheTraveler
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High School What is the Earth's orbital speed around the sun?

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Graduate Shape, structure, and nature of the universe - questions/theories

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Stargazing What did the January 4th, 2010 eclipse look like?

  • Borek
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Undergrad Why does the Moon orbit the Earth rather than the Sun?

  • Ryker
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Graduate Does vacuum energy gravitate and cause the universe to accelerate?

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High School Is Betelgeuse Really Over 100,000 Times Brighter Than the Sun?

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Graduate What happened to all the Anti-Matter

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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Black Hole Density and Galaxy Size?

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High School Did Mercury and Gemini use the same capsule?

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Graduate Proof that our solar system will leave the milky way.

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Graduate Black Holes: growth affected by Higgs or Dark energy/matter

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Graduate Realspace and redshift space correlation function questions

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Graduate Eternal Inflation: Check Understanding & Ask Qs

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Graduate Temporal finitism is wrong in assuming the beginning of time.

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Graduate How generalizable is simulation/model research?

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Graduate What Role Do Dark Matter Filaments Play in Cosmology?

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Undergrad Lumpiness & Disorder: A Physics Comparison

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Graduate Why is there still mostly hydrogen in pop I and II stars?

  • DaleSwanson
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Undergrad Can Black Holes Actually Emit Radiation?

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Graduate How Does Galaxy Spin Help Us Understand Dark Matter?

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Undergrad When was Dark Matter Proposed After the Big Bang?

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Undergrad Why Aren't Concrete Spacers Required In Foundations?

  • DaleSwanson
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Graduate How Do Coiled Magnetic Fields in Black Holes Create Jets?

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Graduate Dark matter, dark energy, and the Kerr metric?

  • Imax
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Graduate Understanding Black Hole Singularity

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High School Balloon within a balloon question

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Stargazing Any suggestions for a good set of binoculars around $30?

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Winter is better for stargazing? Is it true?

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Graduate Dark Matter - what's the mystery?

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Undergrad Does Dark Matter Affect the Speed of Light?

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Graduate Could Inflation Create a Universe from a Pre-Existing De-Sitter Vacuum State?

  • dude01
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Graduate This is the question which is asked in this content.

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Graduate How inflation solves the horizon problem

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Graduate Is redshift unreliable as a measuring tool?

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Undergrad How Does Gravity Affect Light in Black Holes?

  • The legend
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Undergrad How Did the Moon Achieve Orbit Without an Orbital Burn?

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Graduate Isn't a Cosmos Made from Nothing Self-Consistent?

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Graduate Finding Longitudinal Data of Star Magnitudes in Surveys

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Graduate Reference for scalar-vector-tensor decomposition of perturbations

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High School Comparing Matter & Antimatter Suns

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Graduate The Earliest Time of Life in Universe

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Graduate Gravity and Sinking Objects in a Galaxy-Sized Water Planet

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High School Why does the Moon rotate around the Earth?

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Graduate Researching Dual Planets in the Same Gravity Well

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High School GyratorIIVLFReceiver and 75 cm VLF loop antenne

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