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Undergrad Theory of the end of the universe

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Undergrad How Do You Calculate the Minimum Velocity to Escape the Solar System?

  • Ed Quanta
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Undergrad Polar coordinates of solar system

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Why can't we invest in privately owned Space Companies?

  • BenVitale
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Graduate Exploring Primordial Universe w/ QUBIC: 400 Horns at 100 mK in Antarctica

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High School How can I view a star catalog in a txt file?

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Graduate Is the Universe Analogous to Water with Entropy and Symmetry?

  • closet mathemetician
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Graduate Understanding Radiation Pressure and Its Role in Star Dynamics

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Graduate Could Dark Energy Be Linked to a Primordial Mother-Universe?

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Undergrad Life on Mars: Evidence of Ancient Life?

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Undergrad Why Doesn't the Sun's Core Contain Heavy Metals Like Earth's Core?

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Graduate What made the universe have 3 dimensions, instead of some other number?

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Undergrad The current planet count stands at 490

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Graduate Variation of fine structure constant and spacetime?

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Graduate Question about the edge of the universe

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Graduate Size of the universe and human brain

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Graduate Accelerated Vacuum Space/ Universe Expansion

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High School Question why does the moon move around the earth

  • shobat
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Graduate Could the Big Bang Have Originated from a Black Hole?

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High School Understanding Buoyancy: Why Do We Float in Water?

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Undergrad Impacts of Excessive Gravity on Planetary Life

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High School Mysterious Flash in the Sky - Ask PF Community

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Graduate Eternal Inflation Time Will End

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Graduate Doppler effect of light spectrum

  • binbots
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High School How are clusters of galaxies formed?

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Graduate Is Panspermia a Viable Explanation for the Origins of Life?

  • skippy1729
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Undergrad Kepler's Third Law: Mass of Sun and Newton's Law

  • The legend
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Graduate Is the Cosmological Principle Limited to Space Only?

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Graduate Must a black hole be a point singularity?

  • Bernie G
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Graduate What is the relationship between spacetime and energy?

  • jameseg
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High School Finding the Angular Distance Between Jupiter and its Moons (Galilean)

  • Dreyth
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Argument against Dark Matter - please enjoy yourself for a moment

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Graduate Could Solar Energy Beams Enable Interstellar Travel?

  • rhyshanan
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Graduate Particles in our universe undetectable by us

  • ufarad
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Graduate How is our speed (~605km/s) derived from the CMB dipole anisotropy?

  • lenfromkits
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Stargazing Can Telescopes Show Recognizable Reflections at Long Distances?

  • Newai
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Undergrad Calculating Earth Masses in a Planet with Earth-Size and Moon-Density

  • brianh
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Undergrad Black hole gravitational question

  • LoveKnowledge
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High School String of satellites transits moon?

  • micahgtb
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Graduate Is the Standard Model of Cosmology built on a house of cards?

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Graduate How much dark matter in each galaxy? Is it related to age?

  • lenfromkits
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Undergrad Is space, time and energy linked?

  • altairz
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High School Moon Question (Vacuum, air, escape vel.)

  • nukeman
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Graduate Can the Li7 problem be resolved by increasing the dark matter ratio?

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Undergrad Is Dark Matter Different from Dark Energy?

  • Melodie Ann
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Graduate Can the Magnetic Field of a Black Hole Reveal Its Charge and Rotation?

  • Dr Lots-o'watts
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Undergrad Constellation of date and the actual constellation that follows the sun

  • Philosophaie
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Stargazing Trying to pick out a telescope (Need help)

  • mkarger
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Stargazing Which Telescope is Best for Viewing Planets and Nebulae on a Budget in Wales?

  • Harry-Wales
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High School Comet Passing by Earth: Effects & Destruction

  • mersecske
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Graduate Escape velocity when in earth's orbit

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Undergrad What Do You Call the Quantity When You Multiply Light Flux by Detector Area?

  • Mu naught
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Graduate Astronomy research question. Thanks

  • nukeman
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Graduate How Does B Mode Polarization Help Trace Gravitational Radiation?

  • wolram
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Graduate About the origin of the universe? big bang cause?

  • jeebs
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Graduate What Happens Inside a Black Hole's Event Horizon?

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Graduate Was the Universe Always Infinite from the Moment of the Big Bang?

  • Oldfart
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Graduate Lagrange Points, Maximum mass and their effects

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Graduate Are Matter and Space-Time the Only Things That Exist in Our Universe?

  • GladScientist
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Graduate What/how created first brane? first source of everything what/how

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Graduate Black Holes containg a Universe.

  • KeithSloan
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High School Are there any geostationary orbits around the Moon?

  • mersecske
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Graduate What Are the Key Questions About Supernova Data and the Modified Milne Model?

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High School The origin of water in the universe

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Graduate How dark energy make universe to inflate?

  • sweet springs
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High School Hi,please anybody tell any reference book for astrophysics.

  • praveenpp
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Graduate What If Our Sun Were Blue? - Effects on Perception & Evolution

  • MysticalSwan
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Undergrad Ow high above the horizon the sun would be on the vernal equinox

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Undergrad Could Black Holes Be Tears in Space?

  • sorad
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Graduate Were There Any Proposed Non-Expanding Cosmological Models Without Lambda?

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Graduate Is the Planck Length real? How do we know?

  • sorad
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Undergrad Quick angular measurement question about moon. Thanks

  • nukeman
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High School Question about how stars appear to move westward?

  • nukeman
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Graduate Wormholes expeling particles at superluminal speeds

  • Boy@n
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Astronomical software for BCE Thuban era

  • kr236rk
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High School Can you see Venus shining near the noon hour?

  • OrionVTOL
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Graduate Astrophysics from a Boobie or a black climate control.

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Graduate Can Black Holes Really Evaporate and Lose Mass?

  • robsharp14
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Undergrad Why Do Galaxies Have a Spiral Shape? Understanding Gravity's Role

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Graduate How does information leak out of a black hole ?

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High School Calculating speeds of radio to a planet

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Undergrad How do you calculate an intuitive date and time from the BIG BANG to NOW? :-)

  • Wulgulmerang
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Undergrad Calculating Synodic Period using Sidereal Period: Is there a Reliable Formula?

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Undergrad The black hole isn't actually a hole

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Graduate Could the Gravitational Lensing Effect Explain the Galactic Rotation Anomaly?

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Graduate What is the significance of particle-antiparticle radiation near black holes?

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Graduate Identifying the Inflaton (new paper Easson et al)

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High School Which Direction Does the Milky Way Span Across the Sky?

  • nukeman
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Graduate Bifurcated Asteroid - Centrifugal force

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Undergrad Is the universe a closed system?

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Graduate Did Matter Exist Before Space-Time Began?

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High School What keeps the planets in their consistant orbit?

  • JBash
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Graduate Is accounting for relativistic effects necessary in solar system simulations?

  • jumpjack
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Undergrad What causes variations in redshift measurements?

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Undergrad The universe is expanding & the universe is infinite

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Graduate Looking Back Through Spacetime in the Future

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Graduate Blow up a black hole by filling it with electrons?

  • satuon
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Graduate Yet another Dark Energy question

  • diggy
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Graduate Used infinity to predict that another ClamShell

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Graduate On String Theory's Predictiveness

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