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Graduate Planck's Length and the Quantum Theory of Gravity
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Graduate How can space be created faster than light during inflation?
- magnusrobot12
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Graduate Is there a place in space where there is no energy?
- cragar
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Undergrad Need Help Answering Astronomy Questions? Download the PDF!
- bob1230
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Graduate Black hole/Hawking radiation thought experiment
- marconius
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Graduate Why don't black holes disconnect themselves from the universe?
- Deepak Kapur
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Graduate How Old is the CMB? Big Bang Cool Down Explained
- HarryWertM
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Graduate Explaining Quasar Feedback for the Struggling
- seto6
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Undergrad Dark Matter and The Eather: What's the Difference?
- ComfortNumb
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Undergrad Can the force of gravity from a Black Hole be escaped?
- rusher38
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Graduate Nuclear Decay Earth Sun Distance
- Saul
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Undergrad What Are Cosmic Waves and Their Impact on Earth?
- Gravitons
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High School Is Evolution Considered Part of Cosmology?
- jaebaeli
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Graduate Three-Body Problem: Soluble or Insoluble?
- Isaac Newton
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Undergrad Planet Rotation: How Is It Possible?
- Godis1
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Graduate Traveling in an Expanding Universe
- JWINC
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Graduate What happens to an astronaut who enters the event horizon of a black hole?
- Energystrom
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Undergrad Astronomical data in an Ephemeris
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Could dark matter be linked to parallel universes?
- Numbertwo
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Graduate Is the Higgs Field the Key to Understanding Gravity and Time?
- Max Faust
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High School Questions About Space: Get Answers Here
- Misr
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High School What is the size of a black hole?
- Deepak Kapur
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Graduate How Does the Marcus Conjecture Connect CMB Energy Loss to Dark Energy?
- marcus
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Graduate Gravitational distortion of black holes
- Jon Richfield
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Graduate How to Calculate Energy and Power from Milky Way's Radio Emissions?
- mkitchen
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Graduate Redshifted light from another planet
- MikeGomez
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Can anybody find a mistake in this Avatar photo?
- traciutaustin
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Cassini Captures First Ever Video Of Lightning On Another Planet
- MarkitScience
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Graduate Violation of conservation of energy by expansion of the universe
- marthkiki
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Graduate Can a White Hole Exist as the Opposite of a Black Hole?
- IXI
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Undergrad Is gravitational redshift taken into account in Hubble's Law?
- m.w.lever
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Graduate Universal Expansion: Is it an Illusion?
- ItStartsWith1
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Graduate Is universe really observer dependent?
- Deepak Kapur
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Undergrad Being shot by a bullet in space. Damaging? Why/why not?
- rflxion
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Graduate Energy to Mass Conversion: How Does it Affect the Universe?
- jobyts
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High School Why are Stars Not Visible in Astronaut Photos?
- Farquezy
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Graduate Question about proton decay and black hole evaporation
- axemaster
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Graduate Why Do Star Systems and Galaxies Flatten in the 3rd Dimension?
- Dropout
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Graduate Need Help, trying to get a grasp about the universe.
- XurdeadX
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Graduate How are black holes linked to worm holes, or are they the same thing,
- Gravitons
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Undergrad How does one describe the energy of space to the public?
- solarblast
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Graduate Newbish questions (shape of the observable universe, blueshift, etc.)
- alpskomleko
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Fireball in Sky: Cause & Explanation
- EnumaElish
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Graduate Physics of creating a deliver-to-Earth-in-future signal
- nxr134
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Graduate How Can Two Tidally Locked Planets Coexist Without Catastrophic Repercussions?
- Helland
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Graduate Is the Earth's Thermal Output Constant Compared to Other Interstellar Cores?
- dirtyd33
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Graduate Hohmann Transfer: Maximum Radii Ratio
- sadiethebull
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Graduate Large-scale spatial geometry of the universe
- AWA
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Graduate A few different questions and concepts
- valdar
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Graduate 13.5 billion year age versus 93 billion due to spatial expansion?
- diagopod
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Graduate Where/when are we in a yo-yo universe?
- daveshorty
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Graduate Could Red Shift Be Influenced by Gravitational Effects Over Long Distances?
- walkerfx
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Graduate Calculate the redshift of a galaxy that is 650 Mpc away
- renmoresnow
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Graduate Explaining Dark Matter: A Cooling Theory for the Missing Mass
- JK0K
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Graduate Relativistic mass increase due to high temperatures inside stars?
- kahoon
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Graduate What could be beyond the boundaries of our seemingly infinite universe?
- Deepak Kapur
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Graduate Speed of Light and Size of the universe
- Praelly
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Graduate How Does 3D Distortion Affect the Space-Time Fabric?
- sreekant
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Graduate Is Chaotic Inflammatory Theory a valid theory in the field of physics?
- libbon
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High School Developed an interest in, Astronomy? Astrophysics?
- eveo
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Undergrad Forming a Star: What Drives Gas & Dust Clusters?
- JayKo
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Graduate Quasars: Are We Measuring Them Wrong?
- sanman
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Graduate Using Black Holes for FTL travel
- imadaman
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Undergrad Black Hole Diagram: Parts, Types & More
- libbon
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Graduate What is the electron density of stars in their atmospheres?
- amalmirando
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Graduate How can you measure the mean density of a neutron star
- renmoresnow
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Undergrad Parabola for 18 aluminum mirror
- jixon
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Graduate Can an Atom Become a Black Hole?
- ALYAZAN
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Graduate Planetary orbits in a Binary Star system.
- ThomasEdison
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Graduate Query - could a comet impact create a wormhole?
- stany
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Graduate Universe expansion and hubble's law
- papa lazarou
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Graduate Can Photons Orbit a Black Hole?
- Medium9
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Undergrad Unveiling the Fascinating Drake Equation and its Fame
- improsnipers
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Graduate What is the meaning of 'not perturbative accelerations' in astrodynamics?
- Rasalhague
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Graduate Lost energy of red shifted photons
- MikeGomez
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Graduate Fisheye Lens (alt/az) to Flat (RA/Dec)?
- solarblast
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Graduate Collapse of Dark Matter into Black Holes
- friend
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Graduate Dynamic Event Horizon: The Effects of Tidal Gravitational Forces on Black Holes
- qwe
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Graduate Why Do We Believe the Big Bang Contained All Matter and Energy in the Universe?
- Mazerakham
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Graduate The Boundaries of the Universe: Are There Limits to How Far We Can Explore?
- Mazerakham
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High School Can You Breathe in Space While Rockets Fire?
- sensor7
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Graduate Mark Whittaker says the dark matter cant cool
- BkBkBk
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Undergrad Canis Major dwarf galaxy *thought* to be our closest neighbor?
- GreatBigBore
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Graduate My First Post: conciousness, the brain, gravity, the universe. Connections?
- mattythewolf
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Undergrad What is the proportionality constant for the Sun's gravitational force?
- moonman239
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Graduate Can Matter Escape a Black Hole's Gravitational Pull Beyond the Event Horizon?
- ABHoT
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High School What Is Dark Matter?
- DaTario
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Graduate Dark Matter, Cluster Dynamics and The Bullet
- inflector
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Graduate Harnessing Energy: What Would Alien Engineering Look Like?
- ABHoT
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High School Moon's Lack of Atmos. vs Titan's Abundance
- danihel
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Graduate Detection of gravitational waves
- Ranku
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High School Measurements between sun and earth
- mullerfabien
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Graduate Time as a fractional spatial dimension
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Graduate Some black holes may actually be Quark Stars
- rhody
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Graduate Our perception of Euclidean space
- madness
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Graduate Equation for theory of everything
- leonstavros
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Graduate Photon-to-baryon ratio from CMB structure details?
- hkyriazi
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High School Relative locations of earth, sun, moon
- daveed
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High School I got a Zhumell Z8 Dobsonian. The stock lens is decent
- Who Am I
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Graduate Expansion of Universe And Its Influence on Earth Orbit
- CarstenDierks
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