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Stargazing Can Telescope Size Indicate Wavelength Range?

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Graduate Here's a question i hope someone can answer

  • Quantumraptor
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Graduate Sagitarius A and its Possible Escape from a Black Hole

  • Philosophaie
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Future of human spaceflight (again)

  • Mu naught
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Undergrad Where Can I Find a Paper on Dark Matter Density Percentages in the Universe?

  • krishna mohan
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Undergrad Understanding Hyperbolic & Parabolic Trajectories

  • Maria76
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Graduate Can microscopic wormholes pass through larger wormholes without collapsing?

  • thehindmost
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Graduate Is there a theory that we are in an eternal loop? Multiverse?

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Graduate Where is the Remnant of the Star that Gave Birth to our Solar System?

  • Mu naught
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High School What Caused Jupiter to Lose a Stripe?

  • Stanwyck66
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Graduate Curvature of space and dark matter

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Graduate What should we be doing for future astronomers?

  • Mekon
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Undergrad If we could see 13.7 Billion lyears away?

  • RCulling
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Undergrad Black Holes & White Holes - Theoretical Plausibility?

  • connectivity
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Graduate Gravitational Energy Equation of State Parameter

  • Ranku
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What is the energy that moon got on us?

  • mreq
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High School Is it true that gravitation on the full moon day is less than other days?

  • mreq
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Graduate Gravitational Model of Tides: Earth and Sun Potential Addition

  • frogeraie
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High School Do sattelites orbit with the rotation of the earth?

  • Russell_B
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Graduate What formulas do I need to solve the above problems?

  • Red_Night
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Graduate Did the Universe truly form out of nothing?

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Undergrad What does When the Universe was one minute old mean?

  • John Bleau
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Graduate If the universe is closed - scenario question

  • Mekon
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Graduate Looking into the past with telescopes

  • Darkmisc
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Graduate State of Pulsar Theory & Observations

  • Saul
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Graduate Limit to Expansion of the Universe

  • Krombacher
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Graduate How is Heliocentric Earth Longitude Measured?

  • spossatamente
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Graduate Negative energy versus positive energy

  • hurk4
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Graduate SMB Feeding Problem Dark Matter Problems

  • Saul
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Graduate Can a Magnetic Field Escape a Black Hole?

  • cragar
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Graduate How Are Pressure and Density Defined in the Comoving Coordinate System?

  • bloby
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Graduate Part of universe mapped by coordinates

  • bloby
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Undergrad What Determines the Differences in Life Across Different Planets?

  • awestruck
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Graduate Is Dark Energy Just a Myth in Modern Science?

  • Mu naught
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Graduate Theoretical Question about Milky Way

  • Valcken
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Graduate Can I Travel Faster Than Light While Considering Relativity?

  • ElectroBurger
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Graduate Cosmological redshift as a Doppler effect or metric evolution?

  • AWA
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Undergrad Terminology: Dwarf Planet vs. ProtoPlanet

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Request permission to discuss Schild's papers

  • Saul
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High School Will a black hole revolve around a non-black hole object with greater mass?

  • d-wat
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Lunokhod 1 found But why lost in the first place?

  • GreatBigBore
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Graduate Understanding the Debye Length in Plasma Physics

  • Nylex
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Graduate Extrasolar Moons: Could There Be Earth-Sized Worlds Around Gas Giants?

  • ThomasEdison
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Graduate Which cosmological model do you find most compelling?

  • kathykoo9
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Graduate What is and is not Mainstream Astrophysics?

  • Saul
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Graduate What Insights Can Age, U-B, B-V, and V Data Provide About Star Clusters?

  • randa177
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Graduate What is the Scale of Homogeneity in the Universe and How is it Measured?

  • skippy1729
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Graduate What will the universe *look* like in 15 billion years from now ?

  • Nikarasu M
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Graduate Universe Diameter: Explained by Howard

  • Hacky
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Graduate Earth-like Gravity: What Effects on Small, Dense Objects?

  • ThomasEdison
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Undergrad Is there a term for the vertical elongation of a planet?

  • dotancohen
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Undergrad Black Holes emitting jets of gas?

  • OrionVTOL
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Graduate How could the big bang create time?

  • jkxzgyk
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Graduate Do MECOs Challenge the Existence of Classical Black Holes?

  • Saul
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High School How Much Would Your Weight Change on the Surface of the Sun?

  • kathykoo9
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Graduate Accelerating Expansion, or Constant?

  • IcedEcliptic
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Graduate How does the velocity of light change in the vicinity of a black hole?

  • Starwanderer1
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High School Why Do Things Spin? Solar Systems, Planets, Galaxies

  • piccini9
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Graduate Big Bang Theory: How Could Something Without Part Erupt?

  • stevenbhester
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Stargazing What are the best telescopes for beginner astronomers on a budget?

  • KrisOhn
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Graduate Is There Mathematical Proof That Stars Are Still Being Formed?

  • Max.Planck
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Graduate Transfer orbits for dummies A hillbilly tutorial.

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Graduate Eccentricity and specific mechanical energy

  • Rasalhague
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Graduate Red Shift & Time: Can Time Be Expanding Too?

  • Exmech
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Graduate So, is it correct to measure centrafugal force due to a planet's rapid orbit?

  • calis
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Can I find a free 2010 sky almanac on line?

  • jackmell
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery: Inertial Energy and the Standard Model Explained

  • h1ghf1ve
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Undergrad What Would Happen if a Gamma Ray Burst Hit Our Sun?

  • Random?Guy
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High School Are galaxies fairly evenly distributed?

  • abcdan
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Graduate Is the universe accelerating it's expansion?

  • BernieM
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Graduate Exploring the Angular Size-Redshift Relation in Cosmology

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Observable Boundary of Expanding Universe: Is There a Limit?

  • thecow99
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Graduate CMB Redshift: 13.7B Yrs Ago, 10.4x Speed of Light Today

  • HarryWertM
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Undergrad Ice Discovered on 24 Themis Asteroid

  • Stanwyck66
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Graduate Did inflation itself make the universe bigger than what we currently observe

  • GreatBigBore
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Undergrad Jupiter-sized Planet Lurking in Oort Cloud?

  • sanman
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Undergrad How can we know that the universe is expanding

  • abhi2005singh
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Space Travel Videos: Find 10-20 min Video for Seminar

  • eveo
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Graduate Singularity and Anti singularity

  • thehindmost
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Graduate Could Tachyons Exist in a Parallel Universe?

  • typical guy
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High School Do Astronauts See the Earth Spin?

  • woodysooner
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Graduate Why does the CMB appear to us the way it does?

  • GreatBigBore
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Undergrad Is the solar brightness dependant on how many solarspots

  • Max.Planck
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Graduate How to Derive β and Identify Superluminal Motion?

  • Max.Planck
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Undergrad Why Are We Trying to Reach Galaxies Drifting Apart at Light Speed?

  • James_Cody
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Undergrad How to Determine Right Ascension and Declination from Keplerian Elements?

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Where Does the Lost Energy of Redshifted Photons Go?

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Stany asked about LHC BH creation

  • Jon Richfield
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Graduate What was the extent of the primordial universe at the time of the big bang?

  • pixchips
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Graduate Dark Matter and Its Relation to Energy

  • PhanthomJay
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High School How Do I Find Distance Using Redshift?

  • seto6
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Stargazing What are the Limits of Wavelength Detection in Modern Telescopes?

  • Zman
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Graduate Big Bang From Black Hole. Each Black Hole creates a New galaxy?

  • Philose
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Graduate Is J Richard Gott's Self-Creating Universe Theory Still Relevant Today?

  • stratovarius
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Graduate What remains of an atom is ripped apart?

  • lauthiamkok
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High School Arcsecond size of the Andromeda Galaxy

  • Simfish
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Graduate Can True Zero Velocity Be Measured in Space?

  • capri debris
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Graduate The Clumping of Dark Matter: A Question of Friction?

  • skippy1729
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Graduate Inflation or normal space/time misunderstood?

  • PaulS1950
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High School A strange informataion is ot realy

  • the doctor
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