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Graduate What Insights Does a Black Hole Simulation Provide?

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Graduate Dark Matter/Energy: Adjusting Science to Fit Math?

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High School Are Black Holes Destroying Our Galaxy? The Truth About Galaxies and Black Holes

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High School Why Doesn't the Moon's Gravitational Pull Affect Lakes or Cups of Water?

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Graduate Are time flow equally in universe?

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Graduate What is a Euclidean Wormhole? | Ask Your Question

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Undergrad Meteor Trajectory: Can it Fall Straight Down?

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Graduate Density of dark matter in milky way

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Light is the only thing in existence

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Graduate Unravelling the Mysteries of Space and Light

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Graduate Expansion-based cooling during Big Bang

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Undergrad Average distance form earth=384,403,000 meters

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Graduate Flat Velocity Curve: Newton vs MOND Theory

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Graduate A universe that supports intelligent life is likely to

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Graduate Discussing Gliese 710's 86% Chance of Hitting the Solar System

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Stargazing XT10i and a Orion Skyview pro 120mm refractor

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Undergrad Determining a Safe Distance from a GRB

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High School The big bang theory and why i think its wrong

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Graduate Extrasolar Planets: Questions & Answers

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Graduate Help Calculate Velocity of Supernova Remnant Knot

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Stargazing Suggesting a beginners telescope

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Graduate Does the Cosmic Coriolis Effect Influence Galaxy Spin Direction?

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Graduate Could Gravitons Be the Missing Link to Understanding Dark Matter?

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High School CERN and Switzerland Prevail: Celebrating a Historical Moment!

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Graduate Big-bang versus observational event horizon

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Undergrad Big Bang: Has Universe Always Been Expanding?

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Graduate Understanding the Relationship Between the RW Line Element and Universe Density

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Undergrad What Makes Living in a Spaceship Without Gravity So Unique?

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Undergrad Mathematics & Astrophysics: Importance & Overview

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Undergrad Accuracy of the exploding asteroids in The Empire Strikes Back movie

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Graduate Direct observation of early universe's higher density

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Graduate Cosmological Constant: Why Lambda Units are 1/m^2

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Graduate Could Hydrogen and Helium Be the Key to Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

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Graduate Harvesting Asteroids: Soft Landing Nickel/Iron Megaton on Earth?

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High School Clarification about gravity and floating in space

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Graduate Orbit around the Galactic Center

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High School Dsitribution of Stars and Galaxies?

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Graduate Intro, and a couple of questions

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High School What was earth like 200,000 years ago?

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Graduate CMB: L to Angle Conversion Simplified

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Dark Matter/Dark Energy/unified constant? I need answers

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High School Do Most Stars Have Orbiting Planets?

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Undergrad How do I map a celestial object's declination ?

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Graduate Could anything else cause redshift?

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High School S: Understanding Space-Time Confusion

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Undergrad Blue Shift & Red Shift: Explaining the Universe

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High School How much closer was the Moon say 200,000 years ago?

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Graduate What are Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinates in Relation to a Static Black Hole?

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Graduate Are Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe Concentrated in One Area?

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Graduate Derivation of Earth's Precession: Sun's Torque & Causes

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Graduate Exploring Supermassive Black Holes: Understanding Orbiting Stars and Gravity

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Graduate Can Dark Matter Evaporate in Black Holes? A Theoretical Problem

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Graduate Cyclic Universe: Exploring the Theory of Multiple Big Crunches and the Big Rip

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Graduate Theoretical and actual limits to electromagnetic frequencies?

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Graduate Is Space Pushing Galaxies Apart in the Expansion of the Universe?

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Graduate Deterministic Universe (3 propositions)

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Undergrad How Far from a Gamma Ray Burst to Match Solar Radiation at Earth?

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Graduate Is Life on Jupiter's Moons More Probable Than on Earth-like Planets?

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High School Why is the Earth hotter in July and cooler in January?

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Graduate Cosmic Microwave Background Origin

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Graduate Past eternal universe in inflationary models

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Graduate Circular Polarization and the Search for Semi-Intelligent Life

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Graduate Why do we Need a Unified Theory?

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Graduate Solve CMB Peak Wavelength & Quark Fates | Astronomy Problem Help

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Graduate Is My Understanding of Light Spheres in A Brief History of Time Correct?

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High School Unveiling the Mysterious 'Black Star': New Astronomical Discovery

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Graduate Stellar Pancaking, anyone familiar with it?

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High School What Does Our Solar System Rotate Around?

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Undergrad Galactic Center Wobble: A Look at the Dynamics

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Graduate Would a graviton follow the geodesic?

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Graduate Understanding the Physical Significance of 'a' in Kepler Orbit Equation

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Graduate How do vortices help astronomical structures to form?

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Undergrad The Everlasting Cycle of the Universe

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Undergrad Advice for amateur (Matter/Space)

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Graduate State of knowledge of dark matter distribution vs Fermi Paradox:Zoo

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Undergrad Food for thought, is law of inertia wronghum

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High School Picturing Galaxies: How We Capture Outer Space

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Graduate Creating Matter from Energy: Is It Just Theoretical?

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Graduate The Universe: 4 Forces Constant Forever?

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Graduate Three Body Problem - Earth, Sun, and Moon

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Graduate Curvatue Cosmology for a static stable universe

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Graduate Proving that there is one center of the universe.

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Graduate Three Questions About Energy-Mass Equivalence

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Undergrad Earth's Axis: What is Figure Axis & Have Astronomers Had to Readjust?

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Graduate Is Zero Gravity in Space Just a Big Free Fall?

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High School Protecting Telescopes from High Humidity: A Practical Solution?

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Graduate Can Supernovas Disrupt Entire Stars Without Remnant?

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Graduate Inflation and Assuming the 'just so'

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Undergrad What drives the magnetic field of Earth and how does gravity play a role?

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Graduate Capturing Light Leaving Its Source: Is it Possible?

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Graduate The Origin of the Universe: A Matter of Energy and Motion?

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Graduate Looking back in time to the big bang

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Graduate Calculate Redshift Where Radiation and Matter Energy Densities Equal

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Graduate What is Dark Matter? - Learn Its Properties & Particles

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Undergrad Why Is Helium Important in the History of Star Formation?

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Graduate Understand Time Measurements After Big Bang

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Undergrad Can the Sun Appear to Revolve Around the Earth from Certain Points in Space?

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Graduate How Can I Improve the Accuracy of My Geostationary Orbit Propagator?

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High School Could Traveling Against the Earth's Rotation Cause a Sunset-Sunrise Reversal?

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Graduate Calculating age of the universe using redshift?

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