Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology Forum

Join in expert discussion on the topics of Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. This may include discussion on celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. Mainstream science only.

Threads

Undergrad Why Does t=1/H Represent the Age of the Universe?

  • LSulayman
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Can Non-Standard Coordinates and Dimensions Explain Dark Matter?

  • geordief
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Understanding Dark Energy and Its Impact on the Expansion of the Universe

  • nekdolan
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate What is happening in distant galaxies like Andromeda at present?

  • asimations
  • · Replies 29 ·
Replies
29

Undergrad How Can We Prove the Existence of Black Holes and Locate Them in Space?

  • a.ratnaparkhi
  • · Replies 13 ·
Replies
13

High School Do all stars belong to galaxies?

  • Hot Star
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate What Happens to Lost Gravitational Energy in Degenerate Matter?

  • cepheid
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Hanny's Voorwerp imaged by Hubble.

  • turbo
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate What Happens After a Star Fuses Hydrogen in Its Core?

  • rawhemi
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Why doesn't ice in Saturn's ring sublime away?

  • KenJackson
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Undergrad Early Universe: Closer Galaxies, Big Bang Visibility?

  • binbots
  • · Replies 11 ·
Replies
11

Undergrad Where Does the Energy Go When Gravity Changes an Asteroid's Trajectory?

  • ofirgil
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Is There a Total Electric Charge for the Universe?

  • humanino
  • · Replies 16 ·
Replies
16

Novel-Travel inside the Black Holes

  • Eagle9
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Evidence for orgin of CMB primary anisotropies

  • zonde
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Unexplained Sight: A Mysterious Star in the Night Sky | Discover the Truth

  • lwymarie
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20

Undergrad Could Europa's Subsurface Ocean Support Life?

  • Arch Enemy
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

High School Sun disappearing thought experiment

  • texasblitzem
  • · Replies 21 ·
Replies
21

Graduate How Do Einstein's and Modern Cosmological Constants Differ?

  • LSulayman
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

High School Are Planetary Orbits in the Solar System Flat or 3D?

  • geoffleonard
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate The present expansion of the universe

  • se00064
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Is dark matter distribution clumpy or homogenous?

  • BernieM
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

High School Map the Sky: Charting Stars & Planets Pencil & Paper Style

  • Opus_723
  • · Replies 10 ·
Replies
10

Graduate Can You Answer These Four Conceptual Questions About Black Holes?

  • Mileman10
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Is the Estimated Value of Precious Metals on Asteroid Accurate?

  • aquitaine
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Undergrad How Do Gas Giants Retain Massive Atmospheres?

  • Nakisima
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

High School What are the factors that affect the speed of light?

  • Rohan Sahuji
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Graduate Could Stellar Black Holes Account for Half of Dark Matter in the Universe?

  • Imax
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate I from a cosmologist big time. (questions about relic densities, etc.)

  • shirosato
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Earth-Moon System Without Sun: Effects Explored

  • termina
  • · Replies 23 ·
Replies
23

Graduate Is the universe governed by simple law?.

  • qsa
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Graduate Do all measurements need to be normalised?

  • mysearch
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Stargazing Explorer 130 or Astromaster 130EQ for camping?

  • northern lass
  • · Replies 8 ·
Replies
8

Graduate Bode's Law (Or better attributed as Titius' Rule)

  • Phrak
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Graduate Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: A Homogeneous and Isotropic Universe

  • TrickyDicky
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Does this article prove that parallel universes exist

  • john88888
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Proxima centauri main sequence duration

  • dwaring28720
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20

Stargazing OECSYAZ2D114/F900 Telescope Help.

  • Sarah help
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Movement of different-sized crafts in space

  • Jiketsu
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Chaotic universe where chance and probability rule

  • ForMyThunder
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Acceleration of expansion as unknown reddening bias

  • zonde
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Undergrad Can Wormholes and Dark Matter Lead to Time Travel?

  • FantasyQueen
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Graduate What Is the Significance of the Frost Line in the Asteroid Belt?

  • Bemis
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Are Sterile Neutrinos the Key to Dark Matter?

  • marcus
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad How Can an Infinite Universe Expand?

  • LSulayman
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Universe Expansion & The Speed of Light

  • jskirvin
  • · Replies 22 ·
Replies
22

Graduate What is the Universe Expanding Into Beyond the Big Bang?

  • venomxx
  • · Replies 26 ·
Replies
26

Graduate 13.1 billion light years object observed.

  • Ramon163
  • · Replies 14 ·
Replies
14

Undergrad Type 1a Supernovae and Dark Energy

  • chris1969
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Do Dark Matter Particles Cool Over Time Due to the Stretching of Space?

  • DarkMatterHol
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Routes to formation of a black hole?

  • bcrowell
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Planets' and Sun's mean angular velocity

  • FutureScience
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad How Do Scientists Estimate the Distance to Stars?

  • zli034
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Graduate Is Dark Matter Composed of Micro-MACHOs?

  • MTd2
  • · Replies 24 ·
Replies
24

Graduate Big bang ordinary explosion, evidence for expansion of space?

  • jostpuur
  • · Replies 20 ·
Replies
20

High School Why are there two tides a day when there is only one moon?

  • mack_10
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19

Undergrad Something I don't get about Wormholes

  • Silverbackman
  • · Replies 39 ·
2
Replies
39

Graduate Accepted (precise) value for lunar L2 point?

  • Muon Cat
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3
Replies
6

Undergrad The time of becoming a red giant

  • fawk3s
  • · Replies 12 ·
Replies
12

Graduate Light reflection from edge of universe

  • asimations
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Undergrad Space & Big Bang: Was the Marble in a Universe of Time & Space?

  • 36grit
  • · Replies 23 ·
Replies
23

Graduate Earth-Moon vs Earth-Sun Lagrangian Point system

  • cbschriks
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Question about an infinite number of universes

  • khanster
  • · Replies 30 ·
2
Replies
30

Stargazing How to estimate distance by a telescope

  • zli034
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Empirical establishing of Mass-Radius relation for stars

  • Pawell
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Could Dust Be Responsible for the Pioneer Anomaly?

  • SJGooch
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Determination of spin-parity of Hoyle state

  • ridge1988
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Graduate Anthropic principle and the time we find ourselves in

  • carwe
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

The Symbology of 2001, a space idiocy.

  • BoulderHead
  • · Replies 19 ·
Replies
19

High School Does the concept of annihilation explain the existence of our universe?

  • Darken-Sol
  • · Replies 7 ·
Replies
7

Graduate Can a Supernova Core Reignite as a Smaller Star?

  • RedAether
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Graduate Fate of Universe: Heat Death, Big Crunch, etc.

  • Gold Barz
  • · Replies 15 ·
Replies
15

Graduate What Defines the Fabric of Time in Space?

  • 36grit
  • · Replies 37 ·
2
Replies
37

High School Why Do Stars Appear Blue to the Naked Eye but Red in Scientific Images?

  • elbeasto
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Apparent Size of CMB Primordial Anisotropies

  • fab13
  • · Replies 6 ·
Replies
6

Graduate New red dwarf count and He-4 abundance

  • TrickyDicky
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Is the Universe a Wave Accelerating towards a Peak?

  • leonstavros
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Can We Ever See the Big Bang?

  • imisscarl
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Dark Matter: Is Gravity from a Central Mass or Cumulative Effect?

  • jonnylockers
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Question, Why is Mars almost sterile?

  • Bearsun
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

High School Oort cloud bodies and prevalence

  • Loren Booda
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3

Undergrad Simulations - Programming languages?

  • Shaybay92
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate Gravitational Lense - Focal Point & Mass-Radius Formula

  • scupydog
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate What Explains the Helium-4 Abundance Beyond Stellar Nucleosynthesis?

  • TrickyDicky
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate How Long Does It Take for a Comet to Evaporate in the Oort Cloud?

  • Reperio
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Initial mass function - power law

  • dntsmzns
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Galaxies & Masses: Find a List or Table Here

  • bsmith18
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Why Aren't Galaxies Skewed Despite Vast Distances in Light Travel?

  • Astroboy
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Undergrad Why do astronomers stick with old languages like IDL and FORTRAN?

  • Simfish
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Undergrad Composition of planets vs. moons

  • Loren Booda
  • · Replies 5 ·
Replies
5

Stargazing Witness a Rare Celestial Event: Total Solar and Lunar Eclipses

  • Jimmy Snyder
  • · Replies 25 ·
Replies
25

Undergrad Breaching Europas Subsurface Ocean

  • jaboma
  • · Replies 4 ·
Replies
4

Graduate The Role of Observation in the Creation of the Universe: A Quantum Perspective

  • eddietheboyp
  • · Replies 65 ·
3
Replies
65

Cyclic Forces in the Solar System & Zodiac

  • mreq
  • · Replies 17 ·
Replies
17

Would you book online a travel to outer space?

  • maxmaxus
  • · Replies 2 ·
Replies
2

Graduate Can a universe exist with no matter?

  • Dremmer
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate Zero Energy Universe: Examining Conservation of Energy in Cosmology

  • Naty1
  • · Replies 9 ·
Replies
9

Graduate How can the distance duality relation be derived in a model-independent way?

  • aymer
  • · Replies 1 ·
Replies
1

Undergrad Astronomy Problem: How to Find Apparent and Absolute Magnitude of a Cepheid

  • Ivan91
  • · Replies 3 ·
Replies
3