Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology Forum

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High School Sun's Magnetic Pole Reversal & Current Location: North or South?

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Stargazing Moon Illusion to Supersize Saturday Lunar Eclipse

  • Evo
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Graduate The Missing Baryon Problem & Baryonic Tuller-Fisher

  • Saul
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Undergrad Does Einstein's Theory of Relativity Predict Dark Matter?

  • RCulling
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Undergrad Do massive objects in space act as gyroscopes?

  • zewpals
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High School Is the Universe Really Expanding?

  • joej24
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Graduate What if all Dark Matter searches like CDMS II remain negative?

  • ensabah6
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Graduate What Can We Expect for ADG in a Building Like This?

  • Bjarne
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Stargazing Oops, I didn't read the post good enough, sorry!Last edited: Oct 30, 2016

  • LoveTheStars
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High School Moon Rings: Blue, Yellow & Red - Explanation?

  • TheIconoclast
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Undergrad Gravity in Planets & Stars: Investigating Middle

  • binbots
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Graduate Infinity and unique don’t mix. Theory

  • Alestair
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Graduate Could a Variable G Explain Dark Energy and Matter in Our Universe?

  • peter_geek
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Graduate Is the speed of gravity truly instantaneous or does it have a delay?

  • Denver Dang
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Are There Images of Phobos or Deimos Taken from Mars' Surface?

  • manofthehill@
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Graduate Why Did the Universe Cool Down After the Big Bang?

  • yasar1967
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High School Do Planets Spin in the Same Direction They Orbit?

  • luckis11
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Graduate Cosmological redshift and doppler redshift

  • TrickyDicky
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Undergrad How fast are the projectiles from a supernova?

  • Gannet
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Graduate You could get to the speed of light. If you could synthesise gravity

  • sshort75
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High School What classes do I need to become an astronomer?

  • Brett13
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Undergrad Books on Cosmology of Stellar Objects

  • peteb
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Undergrad How much did the universe grow during inflation?

  • Dav333
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Undergrad Question about falling bodies in orbit and acceleration

  • LBrandt
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Undergrad Composition of matter in the universe

  • zewpals
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Graduate What are the best resources for studying Quantum Cosmology?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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High School Comparing Gravity and Big Bang Theory

  • Blade_Runner
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Graduate Understanding the accelerating expansion of the universe based on redshift

  • Laconic99
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Graduate Can We Detect Extraterrestrial Radio Signals Amid Solar Interference?

  • kahoon
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Undergrad Maintaining Orbit of Two Planets Around Sun: Is it Possible?

  • koopa12345
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Undergrad Meteorite Heating: Friction or Compression?

  • CatWoman
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High School Is a Black Hole One-Sided or a Spherical Entity?

  • fakts
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High School How Do Astronomers Count the Number of Stars in the Sky?

  • n.karthick
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Graduate Harnessing Dark Energy: Can We Make It Happen?

  • deanbo
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Graduate The first CMB peak - Flat Universe

  • tonyp1001
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Undergrad Is the Sun’s position in the Galaxy close to its predecessor’s position?

  • Gannet
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Undergrad 13bn+ lightyears in all directions?

  • PrestonMcCall
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Graduate Detecting an Extra-Solar ‘Earth’

  • slide_Rules
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Graduate Is the Universe Flat or Curved According to Planck Probe Data?

  • TalonD
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Undergrad Why is maximum orbital acceleration greatest at periapsis?

  • myuugen
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Graduate Error in CMB Interpretation? Implications?

  • Saul
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How Will the Universe End According to New Theories?

  • brother time
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Graduate Are There 706 Potential Exoplanets in the Latest Kepler Mission Release?

  • marcus
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Graduate Are black holes a point of singularity?

  • zewpals
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Graduate Time required to form a black hole

  • DrZoidberg
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Graduate Can We See Distant Galaxies at Multiple Points in Time?

  • zewpals
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Graduate What's the probability of a universe capable of life?

  • brushman
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Graduate How Does the Universe Expand According to Physics?

  • Visigoth
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NASA's Face in Space Program - Send Your Photo to Space!

  • Topher925
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Graduate Was the Moon Only 16,000 km from Earth During the Hadean Eon?

  • Gannet
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Undergrad Flat Universe? Astronomer's Lecture on Why We Aren't Special

  • zewpals
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Graduate What Is Gravitational Time Dilation and How Does It Work?

  • brother time
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Undergrad Why is the ideal gas law a good approximation for stars?

  • jimmy_jollop
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Undergrad Where did the moon get its orbiting energy?

  • Red_CCF
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Graduate Matter/antimatter, mass questions

  • Dav333
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Graduate Can Dark Energy be a Fifth Force?

  • IceMan815
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Undergrad Cosmic Background Radiation - why is it still here?

  • BernieM
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Graduate Star's Spin: Clockwise or Counterclockwise in Black Holes?

  • JMAustin
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Undergrad What Happens After the Big Crunch?

  • john88888
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Undergrad Searching for an Official Database of Solar System Properties

  • Gannet
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Graduate Can Light Behave Differently in Moving Inertial Reference Frames?

  • ABHoT
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Undergrad What is the Semi-Major Axis of Saturn's 10-Year Orbit?

  • kami12
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Graduate Doubt about our spacetime manifold

  • TrickyDicky
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Undergrad Space expansion in our perspective?

  • powerplayer
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Graduate Anomalous Quasar Observations 200k Light Year Jet? And So On.

  • Saul
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Undergrad Understanding Phase Space and Building It

  • penguin007
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Graduate Complete photonic view like the CMBR version

  • Simon43254
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What information will you send to aliens?

  • J.Asher
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Why Use IRAF? The Benefits of This Powerful Image Processing Tool

  • harvellt
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Graduate Understanding Gamma Ray Bursts: Can We Predict & Model?

  • Visigoth
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High School Does the Tidal Effect Cause Planets to Move Away from the Sun?

  • Bjarne
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Undergrad Longest day of year in the tropics

  • bigislander72
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Undergrad Will Betelgeuse Go Supernova Soon?

  • magnetar
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Undergrad 'Close Encounters' and Galaxy formation

  • tomeatworld
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Graduate What is meant by a particle should not overclose the univese? what is overclose?

  • melezmelez
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Undergrad How is the 3-d space an approximation of Euclidean Geometry?

  • ask_LXXXVI
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Undergrad What Are the Chances of Life on Jupiter's Moons and Other Saturnian Moons?

  • brother time
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Graduate Was Gravity turned off during inflation?

  • rwmp
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Graduate Is the Cosmological Principle a Product of Our Perceptions or a Universal Truth?

  • Simon43254
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Stargazing Do we see the future through telescopes? or the past?

  • blank.black
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Graduate In Retrospect: If ColdWar-to-HotWar Had Happened ?

  • Tom Mitchell
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Graduate Laser interferometry and the search for gravitational waves

  • PiTHON
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Undergrad In wich economic model this are more advanced: Space Exploration and Science.

  • AlexES16
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Graduate What Is Beyond the Infinite Universe and Its Expansion?

  • PhysicsHigh
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Graduate Can the End of the Universe Be Measured with a Bouncing Wave? Great Video

  • cfortes
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Graduate Radius of Universe 6 Gyrs Ago: What Was It?

  • Ranku
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Graduate Do black holes truly never reveal their secrets?

  • RCulling
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Graduate Ancient mid-latitude Mar's covalent bonded ice?

  • cph
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Graduate Question about observable universe.

  • f24u7
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Graduate Can something exist without time-space?

  • avpx
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Graduate Are Supermassive Black Holes Roaming Galaxy Centers After Merger Events?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Earth's Departure from the Solar System: Impact on Planetary Orbits

  • Loren Booda
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High School Mass & Emittance: Does Heat Affect Mass?

  • ABHoT
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Graduate What caused the tiny variations in the Cosmic Microwave Background?

  • Chaballa
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Graduate Are waves only defined in 2D, or can they exist in three dimensions?

  • ABHoT
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Undergrad Is there such a thing as lumens/m^3?Would you have to be measuring

  • ABHoT
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Graduate Black Holes and the Mysteries of r=0: Understanding the Concept of Infinity

  • iRaid
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Graduate How is Hawking Radiation Derived Using the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

  • stevebd1
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High School Is Earth's Rotation Really Slowing Down?

  • Bjarne
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