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High School Where is the zodiac located in the universe?

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Graduate Is it possible to determine if space is fixed or moving?

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Graduate Slight confusion with black holes

  • zewpals
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Graduate Here is some weird idea: Dark matter/energy explained by negative mass matter

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Graduate Big Bang: Unravelling the Temperature Mystery

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Graduate Does the Opaqueness of Space Increase?

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Stargazing Can We Map Matter Beyond the Visible Universe Using the EPR Sky?

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Graduate Density of Atmospheric Gas Using Newtonian Gravity

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Graduate Is Galaxy Expansion Truly Driven by Space Itself or Just Doppler Shifts?

  • Kamil Szot
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Stargazing My Telescope Adventure: Meade LXD75 SN10

  • Chronos
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Stargazing How big of a difference have you noticed with cooling your telescope mirror?

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High School Is There a Center of the Universe?

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Graduate What happens to dark matter in galactic collisions?

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High School Light Speed and Voyager Space Probes: A Reflection

  • Brett13
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High School Why Did Ancient Astronomers Believe the Earth Was Round?

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Graduate Quick question on big bang as expansion of space itself.

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Graduate Playing with Coordinate Systems (Spherical Geometry)

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High School Do stars actually exist beyond our solar system?

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Graduate Need help understanding Collapsed Configurations of stellar Mass

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Graduate Accretion Disk Density & Fusion: What You Need to Know

  • discord73
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Graduate Not Parallel Universes, Nested Universes

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Graduate Can an Artificial Satellite Move Opposite in a Geostationary Orbit?

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Graduate What if the universe is not a bubble, but a sponge?

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Graduate I still don't understand why there isn't a center of the universe?

  • zeromodz
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Graduate Planetary Positions according to JPL Data

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Redshift, Distance & Expansion rate question

  • DLuckyE
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Graduate Seeing the milky way in it's past

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Undergrad If energy can't be created or destroyed, then where did energy come from?

  • saln1
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Graduate How is information conserved in a black hole?

  • zeromodz
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Graduate CMB Power Spectrum and Angular Power Spectrum Plot from WMAP

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Is the observable universe is spatially flat?

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Can Wormholes Exist in a Flat Universe?

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So I was just watching a naked science episode on discovery about

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Graduate Calculating universe age vs. size of universe

  • BrianConlee
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Could a Subsurface Launched Water Vehicle Create a Tidal Wave?

  • Freshtictac
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Undergrad Angular Momentum & Artificial Gravity in a Spinning Space Station

  • DARKSYDE
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Graduate What exactly are Baryon acoustic oscillations?

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Precession of the Sun's rotation axis

  • natski
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Graduate Planet Formation: Unsolved Questions in Solar System Origin

  • Shubert
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Undergrad Determining the radius of a star

  • travwg33
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Undergrad Rotating planets and magnetic fields

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Graduate Age of Universe: 13.4 Billion Years Explained

  • cometraza
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Graduate Expanding universe and energy question

  • fys iks!
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Why do domains expand in a way that makes each point equivalent?

  • FawkesCa
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Undergrad Big bang, schmig bang: everything's just shrinking

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Graduate Dyonic Black Holes: Meaning and Examples Explained

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Graduate Create Matter: A Puzzling Mystery

  • kkapalk
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Undergrad Send Radio Signals to Other Stars: Accounting for Arrival

  • kindaroomy
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Undergrad Why is our galaxy a disc and not a sphere?

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Graduate What shape would the Univers be if we could see all of it

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Undergrad What are the forces on an object in near-Earth orbit?

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Speed of light in intergalactic space

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High School Would a human be able to see a nebula if they were close enough?

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Undergrad Could we realistically see ancient images of the earth from reflected light?

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Graduate Tracking Unstable Elliptical Orbits for College-Educated Scientists

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Given LQC would a massive black hole undergo inflation?

  • rwmp
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Undergrad Is universe expanding or contracting?

  • utkarsh009
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Scientists find most massive star ever discovered

  • Naty1
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Graduate Doubt about the polar equation of a Kepler orbit

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Undergrad The Mystery: The Causes of Gravity Explained

  • SaqibAhmed
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Best month for observing (North East USA)

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Graduate Is there a Path for Galaxies Moving Away?

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Undergrad Pressurization in an enclosed space

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Graduate Relative Stargazing: Adjusting Time Distortion for True Representation

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Undergrad Why was the big bang not an explosion?

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Graduate Could the Universe Repeat Itself Over Infinite Time?

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High School Why is Space Black? Can it be Explained?

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Graduate Do changes of spacetime geometry affect entropy?

  • oldman
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Graduate Are the Various Arrows of Time Correlated?

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Graduate Where Does Gravitational Potential Energy Originate?

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Graduate New Barrow paper - A New Solution of The Cosmological Constant Problems

  • nicksauce
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Graduate Black Hole Plus Charge: Unsolved Mystery

  • RCulling
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Graduate Is an Expanding Universe Hidden Beyond Black Holes?

  • Kat007
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High School Is the Galactic Alignment Real or a Myth?

  • libbon
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Undergrad Where can I find the actual velocity and position of earth at a specific time?

  • TCS
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Graduate Galactic Magnetosphere: Size, Winds & Earth's Impact

  • discord73
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Undergrad Rotating Galaxies: Milky Way, Local Group & Beyond

  • PhanthomJay
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Graduate How Do You Describe the Motion of Two Bodies Relative to Their Center of Mass?

  • pc2-brazil
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Graduate The Gravitational Effects of Electromagnetic Waves

  • Sci1
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Undergrad Dwarf Stars: Detecting Low-Mass Stars in the Universe

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Graduate Why We Have Heavy Elements on Earth

  • paweld
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High School Why Do Planets Maintain Distance Despite Gravitational Attraction?

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Graduate Why is the universe shaped like a pebble?

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Graduate Is it possible to use a black hole as a mirror to the past ?

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Graduate Why Does Iron Trigger a Supernova in Stars?

  • koustov
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Graduate Red shift, gravity, and dark energy.

  • Sci1
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Light From Stars

  • Justin Kirk
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Graduate My black hole white whole dark matter/energy reversed time theory.

  • Charne
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Graduate How much dark matter is in the Sun, and does it have any

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Graduate Standard Candle Dimming Due to Extra Expansion

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Graduate Can We Model Universes with Different Physical Constants?

  • alvarogz
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High School Why Can't Objects Exceed the Speed of Light in Space?

  • travwg33
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Undergrad A simple algorithm, with no use of the mass, to reproduce the 3 laws of Kepler

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Undergrad Exploring Orbital Velocity: Significance and Applications

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Graduate Accelerated expansion and lightcurves

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Graduate What is the Origin of the Repelling Force Between Dark Energy and Matter?

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Graduate Does the uncertainty principle mean that black hole has to become a big bang?

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Graduate Black Hole Annihilation & Photon Interaction

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Graduate How Do We Discern Dark Matter from Dark Energy in the Universe?

  • paweld
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Graduate Cosmological Constant: QFT and Existence Explained

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