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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?

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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!

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Graduate Black hole/Hawking radiation thought experiment

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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

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Undergrad Dark Matter and The Eather: What's the Difference?

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Undergrad Can the force of gravity from a Black Hole be escaped?

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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?

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High School Is Evolution Considered Part of Cosmology?

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Graduate Three-Body Problem: Soluble or Insoluble?

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Undergrad Planet Rotation: How Is It Possible?

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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?

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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,

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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

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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?

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Graduate Hohmann Transfer: Maximum Radii Ratio

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Graduate Large-scale spatial geometry of the universe

  • AWA
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Graduate A few different questions and concepts

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Graduate 13.5 billion year age versus 93 billion due to spatial expansion?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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

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Undergrad Black Hole Diagram: Parts, Types & More

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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

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Undergrad Parabola for 18 aluminum mirror

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Graduate Can an Atom Become a Black Hole?

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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

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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

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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?

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High School What Is Dark Matter?

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Graduate Dark Matter, Cluster Dynamics and The Bullet

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Graduate Harnessing Energy: What Would Alien Engineering Look Like?

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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

  • dimensionless
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Graduate Some black holes may actually be Quark Stars

  • rhody
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Graduate Our perception of Euclidean space

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Graduate Equation for theory of everything

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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

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