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Graduate Is Dark Matter Only Present on a Galactic Scale?

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Can we see the image of earth coming back to us after space travel

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Undergrad Why do Planets have elliptical orbits ,AND

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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between Black Holes and Wormholes?

  • Jadaav
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Graduate Human race has come from another universe to earth

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Graduate Philosophy and Physics: Questions as to the Origin of the Universe

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Graduate Laws of Physics may change across the Universe

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Undergrad Dark Energy & Expanding Universe: Newtonian Perspective

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High School Does the Earth get bigger from the sun?

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Graduate Expansion and Conservation of Energy

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Undergrad What are the best RSS feeds for the latest astrophysics research?

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Graduate If the big crunch occurred, would time go backwards?

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Undergrad Calculate Orbital Period of Earth: GM & a for t in Years

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Graduate What are the Names of the Points on a Space Elevator's Path?

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Stargazing How Does Atmospheric Turbulence Affect Lunar Eclipse Shots?

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High School Some very basic Astronomy questions

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Graduate What Is the Mechanism Behind Dark Flow?

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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Our Understanding of Time Since the Big Bang?

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High School What Did the Universe Look Like from the Big Bang to Now?

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Graduate Empirical measurement of the expansion of the universe

  • BernieM
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Graduate Is Quantum Astrophysics a Subfield of Astrophysics?

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Undergrad Is Time Affected by Space in the Universe?

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High School I think Eddington cooked the books .

  • DAANEL
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Stargazing Rare Total Lunar Eclipse on Winter Solstice - Dec 21 @12:29AM EST

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Maximum redshift - can it move light off the scale?

  • misterkel
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Graduate Universal fractal structure and the infinite universe

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Graduate Detecting Dark Matter with Germanium Atoms

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Undergrad Number of intelligent civilizations over the history of the galaxy

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Undergrad The Space Tent: A Revolutionary Idea for Structuring Martian Towns

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Graduate Is the popular understanding of C.M.B.R. too simplistic?

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High School Is the Universe Like the Inside Of A Spherical Mirror

  • Godswitch
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High School What is a Morton Wave on the Sun?

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Graduate What would happen if two black holes collided?

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Undergrad What Happens When We Cool and Slow Down Solar Particles?

  • TungstenX
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Undergrad Is space an insulator? Why do satellites stay warm?

  • dotancohen
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Undergrad Blocks of empty space within the known universe

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Graduate Is the Cosmic Expansion Merely a Result of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?

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Undergrad Dust or Suns: Which Contributes More to Dark Matter in Space?

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Graduate Life and the size of the universe

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Undergrad Trajectory of object around the moon as function of time

  • Henriklm
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Graduate Pulsar Timing Accuracy: Fractional Instability to 10^-15

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High School Understanding Moon Phases: Examples & Visualization

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Graduate How much will the planck mission resolve about the universe.

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What is the Purpose of Black Holes?

  • Willowz
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Graduate Are Proto-Photons the Only Matter at the Outer Limits of the Universe?

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Graduate Initial state based on current state?

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Stargazing Best compromise for portable telescope?

  • jnorman
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Graduate Is There a Universe Beyond Our Own?

  • RandyDisher
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Graduate What Causes the Big Crunch and How Does it Affect the Universe's Expansion?

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Graduate Force on a Swinging Rod (space elevator)

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Graduate Could the inflation epoch carry information faster than c

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Undergrad How to test a parabolic mirror?

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Graduate Can Hawking Radiation explain the immortality of neutron stars?

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Graduate Faster than light and way smaller than electrons

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Graduate Please explain the paths that planets take in regards to spacetime.

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Graduate Movement of Galaxies in relation to each other

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Graduate Bumping bubbles from our pre-bang past ( test of eternal infl.)

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Undergrad Is Time Travel Possible Through Black Holes?

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Graduate Is Time Really a Fourth Dimension Similar to Spatial Dimensions?

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Graduate Frame dragging around a rotating black hole.

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Undergrad A question about expansion of the universe

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Graduate How can matter change the geometry of spacetime?

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Undergrad How Did Kepler Discover the Sun's Position in Planetary Orbits?

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Graduate Is the Entropy of Black Holes Proportional to Their Size?

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Graduate Without Dark Matter and Dark Energy

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Undergrad How can we see stars past 13.5 billion light years away?

  • dcderek24
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Undergrad What exactly are Magnetars? I've heard the term used before, and all I

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Graduate Existence of super-massive black holes

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Undergrad Is There a Center of the Universe? The Mystery of Tracing Its Boundaries

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Undergrad Nobody has yet seen an extraterrestrial, but scientists have found

  • University
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Undergrad Quick question: Why is Saturns atmosphere LESS stormy than Jupiters?

  • nukeman
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12.5 billion years ago what did

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Graduate Penrose Gurzadyan fire back: new paper today

  • marcus
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Graduate Trying to understand the Shape of the universe.

  • dubsed
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Graduate Universal Expansion: Is All Matter Expanding?

  • Landrew
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High School Galaxy Solar System: Giant Solar Systems Explained

  • harp AP 2010
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High School Earth's Mass: Does It Include People & Everything Else? | Simple Question

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Undergrad What factors make landing on Mars easier than on the Earth? Harder?

  • nukeman
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Graduate Solving N-Body Simulation Problems with Gravitational Equations

  • Lijnk
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Undergrad Galaxies - spiral arms split, why?

  • precisionart
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Undergrad Detecting Black Holes: Is It Possible?

  • RebelRiver
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Undergrad Stars: Creation, destruction and impact on the universe

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Graduate Where Does Space Come From and What Theories Explore Its Origin?

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How can we define the universe as having a shape ?

  • AshsZ
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Undergrad Solving Sun-Earth-Moon Orbit Problem with Solar System Simulator

  • Smoove
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Graduate Photon Red Shift Energy losses in expanding universe theories

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High School Questions regarding Earth life came from Mars - ? - Thanks

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High School What is 1 AU? Definition & Explanation

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Graduate Missing Milky Way Dark Matter: Surprising Constraints on the Lambda-CDM Model

  • Grep
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Undergrad Sun's Evolution: Tracing the Evidence from Red Dwarfs to the Present

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate No evidence for circles in the CMB; contrary to claims by Penrose and Gurzadyan

  • nicksauce
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Graduate Is Space More Fundamental Than Time in Our Universe?

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Graduate Penrose: WMAP Shows Evidence of ‘Activity’ Before Big Bang

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Undergrad Is Time the Movement of Matter Through Space?

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Graduate What Determines the Order of Stars Hitting a Black Hole's Event Horizon?

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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Actually Slowing Down?

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High School Are Supermassive Black Holes Really at the Center of Galaxies?

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Graduate Communication signals and the speed of light

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Undergrad Dark Energy & Light: The Mystery

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Graduate Discovering the Shape of the Universe: An Elegant Inquiry

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