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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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If the universe is infinite, are there planets made out of swiss cheese

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Graduate What are the origins of Moon Mascons?

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Graduate Can light from beyond c/H reach us as the Hubble constant becomes asymptotic?

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Graduate Sources of noise in geostationary satellite attitude determination simulation

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Undergrad Can White Holes Form Naturally or Are They Only Theoretical?

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Graduate If the strength of gravity levels off, could black holes be unphysical?

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What If Comet SL9 Strikes Mars, the Moon, or Venus?

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Graduate Why is a distributed household telescope array impractical?

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Graduate Did a protoplanet impact explain Uranus' tilt and its moons' retrograde orbits?

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Graduate Can we see the Earth in the past

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Graduate How did the cosmos form w/o observers around?

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Graduate Looking for online solar astronomy book/course

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Could a Billion-Year Technology Gap Exist?

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Undergrad Do stellar RA and declination change over time?

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Graduate Perhaps we live in a black hole?

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Undergrad Where does the energy in a gravitational slingshot maneuver come from?

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Undergrad Could an ExoEarth with 70% Land and 30% Water Host Unique Life Forms?

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Graduate Can Antimatter Catalysed Engines Propel Us Across the Galaxy?

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Undergrad Book with proofs for equation of time and sunrise/sunset calculations

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High School Astronomy and astrophysics, are they the same?

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Graduate Is the Universe Both Flat and Accelerating?

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Undergrad Reccomend a stellar database for my software program?

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Undergrad The densest areas in the universe

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Undergrad Why Doesn't Earth Fall Into the Sun?

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High School Can We Overcome the Challenges of Space Travel Beyond Our Solar System?

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High School Catastrophic event stopped growth of galaxy{ON News}

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Graduate Why Were Early Universe Stars More Massive Than Today's Stars?

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High School How to explain black holes to 5th graders

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Undergrad Why are black holes fundamentally different from dense balls of matter?

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Graduate Does expansion exist on the micro level as well as the galactic level?

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Graduate Heat Applied to Black Hole: What Happens?

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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?

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Graduate Virtual particule and event horizon

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Undergrad Why are people saying that the radius of the observable universe is 46.5 ly

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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?

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Graduate Paradox of the Universe - Physics or Voodoo Philosophy?

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Graduate Does entropy in our universe tell us about a larger superset reality?

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Graduate Changeover from deceleration to acceleration

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Graduate How can black holes attract massless photons?

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Graduate Solar system's motion toward the solar apex and angular velocity

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Graduate Effects of moon on prehistoric earth

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Graduate Cosmic background radiation - redshift, blueshift, anisotropies

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Graduate Gravitational force needed to form a black hole singularity

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Graduate What is the role of gravity in the cosmological redshift?

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Graduate Could advanced technology artificially accelerate the evolution of our sun?

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Graduate Dark energy as an entropic force?

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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?

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Graduate Does Hartle-Hawking no boundary theory mean time is an illusion?

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Graduate Is Gravity Weakening as the Universe Expands?

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Undergrad Changing Earth's Orbit: How Has the Speed Around the Sun Evolved?

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Graduate Can Quantum Tunneling Enable Faster-Than-Light Communication?

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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?

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Graduate There is no such thing as empty space in an atom. True?

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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

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Graduate Copernican Principle and Metric Expansion

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Graduate The Big Bang.. just one little question

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High School How do we know what the sun is made of?

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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

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Is space exploration a viable career and future for humanity?

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Undergrad Visualizing daily life through broader EM spectrum

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Graduate Confusion with conversion for the Hubble Constant

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Graduate Blackholes In The Early Universe

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Undergrad Need Controversial Topic for an Eng102 Class

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Graduate Is the EFS boundary term approach circular reasoning?

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Graduate Do galaxy and superluster studies predict the same dark matter distribution?

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Graduate What changes the rate of inflation

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Graduate Could Expansion Explain Gravity Mathematically?

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Graduate Is our universe a membrane with almost no dimension?

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Undergrad Calculate the final velocity of an object accelerating towards a mass

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Graduate So what happen to a shuttle that enters a black hole?

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Undergrad Does recessional velocity from cosmic expansion contribute kinetic energy?

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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

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Undergrad *quantitative* fun with the cosmos (easy)

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Player Pays $330k (US) for Space Station in Project Entropia Universe

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Undergrad Variation of gravity along latitude

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Graduate How do I calculate the phase integral for the Bond albedo in astrophysics?

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Graduate Is Relative Motion Evidence of a Static Aether in Orbital Physics?

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What is the difference between astrology and astronomy?

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Graduate Finite Big Bang, Infinite universe?

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Undergrad What is the critical rate of expansion in kilometers per hour?

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How to crack weird space cases: by Jim Oberg

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Graduate Big Bang - galaxies not mapping onto a point

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Undergrad Will we go the the past if we could go faster than speed of light?

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Questionable article in Scientific American?

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Graduate What could dark matter be made of if not atoms?

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Undergrad A small finite universe and some wierd thoughts from it

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Graduate Current eff. universe limited to redshift 1.73

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Graduate Constants and multiverse possibilities

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