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Undergrad Finding the equilibrium bwetween two celestial bodies

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Undergrad What is a 'Gravitational Slingshot'?

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What is the probability of life in Universe?

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Graduate Why do cosmologists consider the cosmos infinite?

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Graduate How uniform is the expansion of the universe?

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So what to do with knowledge of how the universe works?

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Graduate Why is Solar Cycle 24 Starting So Slowly?

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Graduate Expansion and conservation of energy

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Graduate Is the Universe's Age Finite or Infinite Beyond Our Horizon?

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Graduate Besides the bigbang, are there other published theories about cosmic microwave

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Undergrad Cause of Big Bang: What Started the Expansion?

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Undergrad How does the three-body system (Earth, moon, Sun) work?

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Graduate Latest on black hole infromation paradox?

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High School Are the planets where we belive these to be

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Inner and Outer Spacewhere does it begin, your opinion.

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Graduate LCROSS/LRO and Their Effect on the Moon

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High School Why is the Moon drifting away from Earth?

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High School Is Meade LX200 10 a Good Deal for Your CCD Scope?

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Graduate Neutrino Astronomy: How Much Energy Passes Through Us?

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High School Length of Days: Past vs. Present - Comparing Rotation Speeds

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Undergrad Gravitational Disc consequence ?

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Graduate Can a Collapsing Star Form a Wormhole?

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Graduate Magnatars (Hypothetical Question)

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Undergrad What Is the Longest Wavelength We Can Observe in Radio Astronomy?

  • kuahji
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Undergrad How does inflation explain the rapid expansion of the universe?

  • brother time
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High School Do all planets have magnetospheres?

  • physicallove
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Graduate Mars Terraforming: Possibilities and Limitations

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Graduate What Happens to Neutron Stars Without Black Holes?

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Graduate Black holes and redshift (2 questions)

  • grichblix
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Why No Video Streams of Space Missions?

  • luma
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Planetary Motion: Mercury & Pluto

  • physicallove
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Graduate Looking for interest in Carrol & Ostlie study group

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Graduate Calculating Critical Density Using FRW and Its Implications

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High School What is the Max Wavelength of CMB Radiation?

  • Magma828
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Graduate How Does a Black Hole's Gravity Vary Despite Its Infinite Density?

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Graduate How did the Hydrogen Atoms formed from Energy ?

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Graduate End of Massive Star: Neutron Star or Black Hole?

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High School THE CENTER of The Milky Way Galaxy

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Undergrad Anthropic Principle Interpretations

  • Jonnyb42
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Undergrad Why Haven't We Sent a Probe Into Jupiter's Depths?

  • cstoos
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Graduate Status of Dark Flow Phenomenon: Kashlinsky's Claim

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Undergrad Universe 93 billion light years?

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Graduate Hawking On The Edge Of The Universe

  • TimBowe
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Graduate Apparent superluminal velocity in M82 source

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Graduate Could this be an explanation why there is more matter than antimatter?

  • Heinlein
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Undergrad If Mass can be turned into energy, can enegry be turned to Mass?

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Undergrad Can the Sun be treated as a black body radiator?

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Graduate Size comparison of WASP-12b (gray) with Jupiter.

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Graduate Our universe is a Black Hole in a 10D universe

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Graduate Discontinuity of Spacetime (and other things)

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Graduate Distunguishing matter/antimatter black holes

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Planet Energy: Discover Its Frequency & Production

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Graduate Black hole inside a larger black hole.

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High School Asteroids, Meteorites and Meteors: The Differences Explained

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Graduate Is the Universe Infinite or Finite?

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Graduate How energy divided up in early Universe.

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Undergrad Space Weather reports possibility of Hyder Flare that will hit the earth

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Was the 1969 Moon Landing a Hoax?

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Graduate Are Inflation and the Multiverse Indisputably Linked?

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Undergrad Big Bang Initial Size: Evidence & Technologies?

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Graduate Does the Age of the Universe Need to Factor in Light's Expansion?

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Graduate Collapsed hypergiant forms a gamma ray pulsating black hole

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Graduate Time from the origin of universe

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Undergrad Why do neutron stars suck the gas from their companions?

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Graduate Does Newly Discovered Supernova Point to Unknown Laws of Physics?

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Undergrad Potential for Gamma Ray Bursts to Pose a Threat to Earth?

  • Jonnyb42
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Graduate Will the Milky Way and Andromeda Collide Despite the Expanding Universe?

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Graduate Topography of Spacetime over time

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Graduate Can a Black Hole Be Weaponized?

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Re:star crust 10 billon times stronger than steel

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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Spacetime: How Physicists Know

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Graduate What do mainstream cosmologists mean by Infinte universe ?

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Undergrad Finding Distance to Sirius Using Parallax Method

  • yukkuy
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High School Why Does the Moon & Earth Have Different Relationships with the Sun?

  • Martin Rattigan
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High School Big Bang Theory: Can It Really Explain the Universe?

  • Mr. Pullen
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Voyager 2 Hijacked: Fact or Fiction?

  • physixlover
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Graduate Age of the universe from a photons point of view

  • skydivephil
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High School Big Crunch Theory Q: Can We Reach the Edge/End?

  • RikTammenaers
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High School Earth's Rotation Speed: Would We Notice?

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Graduate Is the Dark Matter Hypothesis Failing to Explain Galaxy Formation?

  • Saul
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Undergrad Why Don't Stars Expand with Space?

  • menniandscience
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Graduate Is M-theory Defined by Speculative Events?

  • tohamas
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Graduate Is there more to the universe than what we can see?

  • seto6
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Graduate Couple of questions about black holes and event horizons

  • Varine
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High School How much of space has humanity observed?

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Graduate NASA Discoveries: Neutrinos and Cosmic Fog

  • SF
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High School Space: Endless or Finite? The Surprising Impact on Shape and Structure

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Graduate Is Science Limited in Explaining the Concept of Nothingness in the Universe?

  • menniandscience
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Undergrad Exploring Habitable Zones: Searching for Life Beyond Earth

  • cstoos
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NY Times Article: Mater vs. Anti-Mater

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Undergrad Is Dark Matter a Cop-Out in Cosmology?

  • chuchulainn
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Graduate Quark Degeneracy? String Degeneracy? (and the effect on Black Holes)

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Undergrad Simple description of a Singularity

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Undergrad Question about gravity & the Big Bang

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Graduate Why do we need inflation to explain the homogeneity of CMB?

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Graduate Explosion/expansion isn't there a period of acceleration

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Graduate Could the Mass in the Universe Be Infinite?

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Undergrad Did the big bang create space or time?

  • klij
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Graduate Why light curves around objects of mass. 3 answers. 3 questions.

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Graduate Are galaxies losing mass or gaining density or both?

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