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High School GyratorIIVLFReceiver and 75 cm VLF loop antenne

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Do Black Holes and Dark Matter Interact?

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Graduate About time, size and light speed

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Graduate A doubt from the book Galactic Dynamics from Binney and Tremaine

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Undergrad Right Ascension and Declination to the Horizon

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Undergrad Blue shift galaxies and the expanding universe

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Undergrad Can I accurately plot the orbits of our solar system's planets using equations?

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Undergrad Was Kepler the First to Measure the Distances from Earth to All Known Planets?

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Stargazing Can we see the solar eclipse after 600 million years?

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Graduate Units used on Voyager golden record

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Graduate How does eternal inflation explain the force behind inflation?

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High School Why Does Camera Flash Brighten Stars in the Sky?

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Graduate Exploring Dark Energy and Quantum Gravity with Atom Interferometry

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Graduate Why would inflation slow down because of gravity?

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Undergrad Any transfer orbit better than Hohmann?

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Graduate Net gravitational pull from Mars

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Stargazing Mastering Telescope Collimation: Tips and Tricks for Perfect Alignment

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Graduate AntiMatter/Matter balance in the Universe

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Graduate Calculating Gas Disturbance from a Supernova Explosion

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High School Do even torch lights twinkle in the sky?

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Thermal expansion coefficient of Jupiter

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High School Does twinklingdepends on the star or the distance?

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High School Why hasnt been artificial satellites torn apart?

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Graduate How did quasars form with such massive black holes?

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Undergrad Could Trojan Asteroids Have Caused Earth's Collision with the Moon?

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Graduate Explaining universe based on purpose/source

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Undergrad What is the potential of tethers for space exploration and satellite propulsion?

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Graduate Seeing Earth's Formation - Can We?

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Graduate Detecting Multiple Planets Around a Star

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Undergrad A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star

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Undergrad Bad programming skills = biggest hurdle to astronomy research

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High School Can someone calc these escape velocities?

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Graduate Particle based multiple universes?

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Graduate Can anyone help mess around with escape velocities?

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Graduate Can a planet or moon have two axes of rotation and remain tidally locked?

  • Timoothy
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Graduate Question regarding red shift and tired light hypothesis

  • rrosenthal
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Undergrad Freshman project in astrophysics

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High School Proof of satellite revolve around earth in circular path

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Graduate Does the Reduced Mass Trace an Ellipse in a Rotating Two-Body System?

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Graduate Does nuclear decay apply to atoms of matter consumed by black holes?

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Graduate Path of light@ various distance from Black Hole

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Undergrad Gravity and Planetary Orbits: Ellipses, Circles or Hyperbolas?

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Graduate Can the Universe Ever Truly Reach Heat Death?

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Graduate Astrophysics project gone wrong: why isn't the moon tearing the Earth apart?

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Graduate Can a region of space be free of energy?

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Graduate Is It Possible to Measure the Universe Before the Big Bang?

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Undergrad What is the Point of Equal Gravity Between the Sun and Earth Called?

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Graduate Is light really affected by gravity?

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Graduate Local effects of universal expansion

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Undergrad Which Universe Model is Most Widely Accepted?

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Undergrad Possibility of Betelgeuse exploding in near future

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Graduate Objects collapsing to black holes

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Graduate Formation of neutron stars and black holes.

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Graduate Is the Rate of Spacetime Expansion Faster Than the Speed of Light?

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Undergrad Could Alpha Centauri Host Habitable Planets Despite Their Short Stability?

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Graduate A questions about black holes among other things

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Graduate Free energy or an infinite universe, which one is it?

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Graduate What Are Universal Forces Made Of?

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Graduate Calculating the visibility of a satellite

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Undergrad Can somebody please explain Olbers' paradox to me?

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Graduate Is Dark Matter a Neutral Force That Interacts Without Annihilation?

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Graduate How Does Universe Uniformity Evolve Over Time?

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Graduate Black holes, a simple theory, has it been looked into

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Graduate Block Universe Theory: What Happens to Consciousness?

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Graduate Why do we assume that the big bang implies a begining of time?

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Graduate Black Hole: Conservation of energy

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Undergrad Does Chaos Theory Refute Evolution?

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Undergrad Expanding Universe: What Drove Early Universe Expansion

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High School Is the Earth's net charge really zero?

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Graduate Interpreting Gravitation: Orbits & Ellipticals

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Graduate Stability of a binary planet system

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Undergrad Help with HEALPix: Get Advice and Tips for Synfast & Anafast

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Graduate Black hole, time and observations

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Undergrad Converting Healpix file to traditional fits format

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Graduate Why Is the 21 cm Line Key in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

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Undergrad Kepler Discovers Small Exoplanet

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Graduate Universe expansion really speeding up?

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Undergrad Does Einstein's Static Universe Theory Disprove the Big Bang?

  • LSulayman
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Graduate Universe Expansion - Terminal Velocity?

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Undergrad Is there a 'simple' YORP calculation

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Graduate Exploring the Effects of the Universe's Expansion on Faraway Galaxies

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Undergrad Origin of the Moon: Did Luck Play a Role?

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Since When Has Everything in the Known World Been Discovered?

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Graduate How did Kepler arrive at his equation without calculus?

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Graduate If we take bigger and bigger volumes

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High School Uranus Rotates On 2 Poles? | Learn About Its Movements

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Graduate Gravitational Collapse of a Star

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Graduate Eternal inflation and topology of the universe

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High School 2 Bright things in the sky. Which 1 is Venus? And what's the other object?

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Undergrad How do astronomers count stars in the Milky way? (procedure, method)

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Graduate Spacetime Expansion in Big Bang 100% Certainty?

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Undergrad Is gravity an infinite source of energy?

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Graduate Is Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Math Still Considered

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The formation of our Universe as we know it

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Undergrad Milky Way; How do we know it's a spiral?

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Graduate Dark Matter: Can It Stop Universe Expansion?

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Graduate Circular restricted three body problem

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Undergrad The Origin of the Universe: Big Bang, Explosion, or Something Else?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Where Is Dark Matter in Our Universe?

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Undergrad The number of space debris objects beyond the geostationary orbit

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