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Graduate Could Time Symmetry Explain the Arrow of Time?

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Undergrad How do supernovae and hypernovae form and what is the corpse left behind?

  • Narkotix
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Undergrad Comet SL9 colliding with Jupiter

  • Dav333
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High School Why Doesn't Air Get Sucked into Space?

  • jamesabc
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Graduate Is Our Understanding of the Universe Shaped by Archetypal Concepts?

  • Caramon
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Graduate Seeing the Unseen: Visualizing a Rotating Black Hole

  • Kevin_Axion
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High School Kepler-9 b,c planets discovered

  • Orion1
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Undergrad Are We in the Middle of the Universe?

  • PrestonMcCall
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Graduate Is Matter Still Being Created from Energy?

  • DLuckyE
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Graduate Relativistic Effects on our Observations of the Universe

  • Ralph Spencer
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Graduate Is there preferred reference frame for motion in the universe.

  • shomas
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Undergrad Black holes (didnt know where to put this question)

  • lepporddog
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Undergrad What the hell is a Johnson V Magnitude?

  • atay5510
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Undergrad Question: what is the resistance forming spiral galaxies?

  • baywax
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Closest Mars Approach to Earth in 5,000 Years: Real or Hoax?

  • Brett13
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Undergrad Time Frame of Sun on Ecliptic Plane vs Equitorial

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate What is the best sky projection to use for my purposes?

  • Simfish
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Graduate Could Anti-Matter Be Moving Backwards Through Time?

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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Still Happening and How Does it Influence the Universe?

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Graduate Big Bang Cosmology: Running Hot and Cold

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Graduate Philosophical/quantum implications of Big-Bang singularity

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Graduate Pre Big Bang Cosmology: Is There a Consensus?

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Can You Survive a Jump into a Black Hole?

  • shadower555
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Graduate Understanding Comoving Hubble Radius

  • cepheid
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Stargazing Velocity of shadow of solar eclipse

  • stevmg
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Undergrad Ask an Astronomer: Mars and the Moon on August 27

  • stevmg
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Undergrad Is cosmic back ground radiation able to somehow not dissapate?

  • land_of_ice
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High School Distance and Time: A Big Question

  • Serpens
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Graduate The Big Rip: Will Black Holes Be Ripped Apart Too?

  • typical guy
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Undergrad The center of the infinite universe

  • AnthonyFB
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Graduate How to determine the total energy in the universe

  • Tipi
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Graduate Can Supernovae Measurements Constrain the Curvature of the Universe?

  • AWA
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High School Are There Really Green Stars in Our Universe?

  • Scott S
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Stargazing Star gazing with light pollution

  • Radrook
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Graduate What Was the Total Mass Energy Density at Recombination?

  • BillSaltLake
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Graduate Parsing Time in the Very Early Universe

  • sderamus
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Undergrad What is wrong with our understanding of the universe?

  • JDługosz
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Undergrad Where to Find Journal Papers on Dark Matter?

  • N83
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Undergrad Alien Contact & the Drake Equation: Agree or Disagree?

  • MaxwellsDemon
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Graduate How Do Particles Transition Between Cells in Physics?

  • Meatbot
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  • Poll Poll

[Poll] Which scientific breakthrough will come first?

  • petergreat
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And i saw a big red glowing ball.

  • jpatrick79
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Graduate Is the Fate of the Universe Truly Determined by Dark Energy?

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Naive Multiverse Question: What Happens When Universes Collide?

  • AstroNovice
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Graduate Do black holes swallow dark matter?

  • Naty1
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Graduate Gravity along a shifted sun-earth line?

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad Basic Question about Star Formation

  • AdkinsJr
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Graduate Is the Galactic Coriolis Effect Debunked or Proven?

  • The Pilgrim
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Undergrad Photometric data from SDSS fits files

  • kris2010
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Graduate Could 'Dark Matter' be Nutrinoes?

  • KirkDamborg
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Graduate I hope this helps answer your question!

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Graduate Non-baryonic Dark Matter: Is There Electromagnetic-Only Matter?

  • nesp
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Graduate Is the standard model of cosmology flawed?

  • BruceNakagawa
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Undergrad How Long is the Moon's Heliocentric Path and Its Mean Speed?

  • termina
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Undergrad Wayward Stars: Has Ejection Ever Been Observed?

  • NelsonsXanadu
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Undergrad Big bang contradicts flat universe?

  • lookaround9
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Undergrad What Are the Lunar Frequencies and Radiations Impacting Earth?

  • mreq
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Graduate What would happen if gather all universe matter into one object.

  • ciurio
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Graduate Can Conformal Weyl Gravity be a Viable Cosmology?

  • sourena
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Graduate Can TV Antennas Pick Up CMB Radiation?

  • TheAlkemist
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Undergrad Balmer Discontinuity: Place & Wavelengths

  • amalmirando
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Graduate HST ultra deep field and angular diameter

  • AWA
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Undergrad Is Our Universe Infinite or Spherical?

  • Nasher
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High School What Direction Are Galaxies Flowing in the Expanding Universe?

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Graduate Does Cyclical Universe Theory Account for Matter Distribution Anomalies?

  • Newton2041
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Graduate Interesting thought about black holes

  • iRaid
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Graduate Dark Matter Missing Mass Really too Much Gravity

  • agnifire
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Undergrad Why Did Mars Die? - Unveiling Its Geological Mystery

  • aquitaine
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Graduate Is There an Infinite Number of Galaxies in an Infinite Universe?

  • alexsok
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High School Angular Momentum: Keeping Planets on their Orbit

  • mreq
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Graduate What is the fabric of space made of

  • planck
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Graduate Are modern galaxies found in ancient galaxy clusters?

  • AWA
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Graduate Could Quantum Mechanics Explain the Mysteries of Dark Matter?

  • souljah
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High School Big Bang: Space & Time Explained

  • robsharp14
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Graduate Some slight confusion regarding the dimensionless Hubble parameter h.

  • taylrl3
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Stargazing Mars' orbital telescope and ice rock

  • cph
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Undergrad Has the Gravitational Constant Been Measured on the Moon?

  • Blenton
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High School What causes the strange gravity effects on the Moon?

  • crx
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Graduate Can a Sundial Measure Ecliptic Longitude Accurately?

  • Helios
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Graduate Has an infinitely bouncing universe really been discredited?

  • MrQG
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High School Gravitation on Planets: Effects on Life

  • mreq
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Is the Japanese Miniature Universe Experiment Still Ongoing?

  • Moviemann345
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Graduate Is the world of anti-matter a possibility or just a fictional concept?

  • ronald_dai
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Graduate Useful Background Reading on Black Holes

  • Chris Hillman
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Undergrad What is the impact of the Sun's magnetic field flip on Earth and its satellites?

  • Philosophaie
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Undergrad Universe contained in another universe

  • Tungamirai
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Graduate Earth's axis of spin w.r.t. galactic rotation axis

  • Creator
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Undergrad Can someone explain Pulsars and Quasars?

  • Biologik
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Graduate Eddy currents due t into the core of the Earth

  • lp1225
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High School Why Do Some Months Have 30 or 31 Days While February Has 28?

  • mreq
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Great Graffiti Stop Motion Big Bang Big Boom

  • baywax
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Graduate What is Dark Matter Made Of?

  • Biologik
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Graduate Can we analytically continue the Standard Model?

  • jackmell
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Graduate What is the process for deriving a galaxy's (i.e. Milky Way) wavelength?

  • cloud_sync
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Graduate Conformal time analytical expression

  • anuradha
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Graduate How to Create Space-Time World Line Diagrams?

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Undergrad CCoronal Mass Ejection Aug 2, 2010: Implications for Earthbound Folks?

  • diogenesNY
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Undergrad Could a Solar Flare destroy life on our planet?

  • Silverman
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Undergrad Velocities of earth's atmosphere, exosphere etc

  • luckis11
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Graduate Inflation is very unlikely less than 10^-6.6×10^7

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