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Graduate How Can I Improve the Accuracy of My Geostationary Orbit Propagator?
- sup3r_n00b
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High School Could Traveling Against the Earth's Rotation Cause a Sunset-Sunrise Reversal?
- physx_420
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Graduate Calculating age of the universe using redshift?
- zeion
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If the universe is infinite, are there planets made out of swiss cheese
- Richard87
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Graduate What are the origins of Moon Mascons?
- Russell_B
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Graduate Can light from beyond c/H reach us as the Hubble constant becomes asymptotic?
- Ranku
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Graduate Sources of noise in geostationary satellite attitude determination simulation
- shakeel001
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Undergrad Can White Holes Form Naturally or Are They Only Theoretical?
- abomb365
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Graduate If the strength of gravity levels off, could black holes be unphysical?
- ensabah6
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What If Comet SL9 Strikes Mars, the Moon, or Venus?
- Pangaea
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Graduate Why is a distributed household telescope array impractical?
- jshrager
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Graduate Did a protoplanet impact explain Uranus' tilt and its moons' retrograde orbits?
- elitenoobboy
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Graduate Can we see the Earth in the past
- leonstavros
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Graduate Looking for online solar astronomy book/course
- imaloonru
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Could a Billion-Year Technology Gap Exist?
- dreiter
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Undergrad Do stellar RA and declination change over time?
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Perhaps we live in a black hole?
- Jackobear
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Undergrad Where does the energy in a gravitational slingshot maneuver come from?
- bassplayer142
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Undergrad Could an ExoEarth with 70% Land and 30% Water Host Unique Life Forms?
- Pangaea
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Graduate Can Antimatter Catalysed Engines Propel Us Across the Galaxy?
- ecao
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Undergrad Book with proofs for equation of time and sunrise/sunset calculations
- theophyman
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High School Astronomy and astrophysics, are they the same?
- theophyman
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Graduate Is the Universe Both Flat and Accelerating?
- oXDawidXo
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Undergrad Reccomend a stellar database for my software program?
- qwe
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Undergrad The densest areas in the universe
- cbd1
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Undergrad Why Doesn't Earth Fall Into the Sun?
- m0rph
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High School Can We Overcome the Challenges of Space Travel Beyond Our Solar System?
- jgoff14
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High School Catastrophic event stopped growth of galaxy{ON News}
- physixlover
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Graduate Why Were Early Universe Stars More Massive Than Today's Stars?
- ian2012
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High School How to explain black holes to 5th graders
- Lyuokdea
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Undergrad Why are black holes fundamentally different from dense balls of matter?
- Char. Limit
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Graduate Does expansion exist on the micro level as well as the galactic level?
- Axuality
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Graduate Heat Applied to Black Hole: What Happens?
- Calimero
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Graduate Can we measure the Sun's velocity through the universe?
- John Richard
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Graduate What ideas does the discrepancy of CMB photons affect?
- Hoku
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Graduate Virtual particule and event horizon
- Mean-Hippy
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Undergrad Why are people saying that the radius of the observable universe is 46.5 ly
- zeromodz
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Graduate Why do pair-instability supernovae leave no black hole remnant?
- ian2012
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Graduate How Many Photons Reach the Hubble Telescope from a Distant Star in a Day?
- Buckethead
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Graduate Paradox of the Universe - Physics or Voodoo Philosophy?
- magnusrobot12
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Graduate Does entropy in our universe tell us about a larger superset reality?
- imiyakawa
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Graduate Changeover from deceleration to acceleration
- Ranku
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Graduate How can black holes attract massless photons?
- dany74q
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Graduate Solar system's motion toward the solar apex and angular velocity
- maurol2
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Graduate Effects of moon on prehistoric earth
- Thomas,G
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Graduate Cosmic background radiation - redshift, blueshift, anisotropies
- lol_nl
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Graduate Gravitational force needed to form a black hole singularity
- zeromodz
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Graduate What is the role of gravity in the cosmological redshift?
- nutgeb
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Graduate Could advanced technology artificially accelerate the evolution of our sun?
- Noformation
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Graduate Dark energy as an entropic force?
- nicksauce
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Graduate How can all the matter in the universe start out as one point?
- magnusrobot12
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Graduate What are the Quantum Mechanics Situations Allowing Light to Escape Black Holes?
- freydawg56
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Graduate Does Hartle-Hawking no boundary theory mean time is an illusion?
- Jarwulf
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Graduate Is Gravity Weakening as the Universe Expands?
- Naty1
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Undergrad Changing Earth's Orbit: How Has the Speed Around the Sun Evolved?
- Juswannaknow
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Graduate Can Quantum Tunneling Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?
- leonstavros
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What is the single most important thing for life to exist in the universe?
- superpaul3000
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Question on Binary Neutron Star Importance?
- Astronomy1st
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Stargazing Is the Celestron Astromaster 114EQ a good beginner telescope?
- MotoH
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Graduate There is no such thing as empty space in an atom. True?
- magnusrobot12
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What determines the density of a black hole?
- Astronomy1st
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Sky-Watcher 10 inch dobsonian won't stay centered
- Codester09
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Graduate Copernican Principle and Metric Expansion
- FireBones
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Graduate The Big Bang.. just one little question
- Rob060870
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High School How do we know what the sun is made of?
- B-Con
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Graduate The formation of Galaxy Clusters from density fluctuations in the early Universe
- Radiohannah
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Undergrad Universe expansion, then deceleration, then acceleration?
- philhar
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Graduate Absolute color - magnitude diagram
- captain.joco
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Is space exploration a viable career and future for humanity?
- ralilu
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Undergrad Visualizing daily life through broader EM spectrum
- GreatBigBore
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Graduate Confusion with conversion for the Hubble Constant
- Radiohannah
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Graduate Blackholes In The Early Universe
- E=mc^84
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Undergrad Need Controversial Topic for an Eng102 Class
- mrp
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Graduate Is the EFS boundary term approach circular reasoning?
- marcus
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Graduate Do galaxy and superluster studies predict the same dark matter distribution?
- hkyriazi
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Graduate What changes the rate of inflation
- amrhima
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Graduate Could Expansion Explain Gravity Mathematically?
- amaruq
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Graduate Is our universe a membrane with almost no dimension?
- A. H. ES NA S
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Undergrad Calculate the final velocity of an object accelerating towards a mass
- wildkat7411
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Graduate So what happen to a shuttle that enters a black hole?
- Grytviken
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Undergrad Does recessional velocity from cosmic expansion contribute kinetic energy?
- zeromodz
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Undergrad Ion-powered dirigible as a space freighter concept
- leonstavros
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Graduate Bolometric Magnitude and H-R diagram
- Barnak
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Undergrad *quantitative* fun with the cosmos (easy)
- marcus
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Player Pays $330k (US) for Space Station in Project Entropia Universe
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Variation of gravity along latitude
- wilsonlye
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Graduate How do I calculate the phase integral for the Bond albedo in astrophysics?
- melkorthefoul
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Graduate Is Relative Motion Evidence of a Static Aether in Orbital Physics?
- alpha1714
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What is the difference between astrology and astronomy?
- jobyts
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Graduate Finite Big Bang, Infinite universe?
- Cuetek
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Undergrad What is the critical rate of expansion in kilometers per hour?
- waynexk8
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How to crack weird space cases: by Jim Oberg
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Big Bang - galaxies not mapping onto a point
- gsingh2011
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Undergrad Will we go the the past if we could go faster than speed of light?
- altairz
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Questionable article in Scientific American?
- SW VandeCarr
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Graduate What could dark matter be made of if not atoms?
- clm321
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Undergrad A small finite universe and some wierd thoughts from it
- JHUK
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Graduate Current eff. universe limited to redshift 1.73
- marcus
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Graduate Constants and multiverse possibilities
- leonstavros
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