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Graduate Constants and multiverse possibilities

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Graduate Can we see the earth in the past ?

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Graduate Formula of anti-gravitational force

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Graduate Finite Universe: Why Postulate an Infinite Universe?

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Graduate Center of the Universe (thought experiment)

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Graduate Can We Truly Conceptualize Quantum Particles and Four-Dimensional Space-Time?

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High School Does matter and energy come into existence in the Big Bang?

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Undergrad Does Hawking radiation decay faster for smaller black holes?

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Undergrad Is Anything Else Expanding Like the Universe?

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Undergrad Expansion Algorithm: Acceleration Over Time

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Graduate Is time a dimension or just distance traveled at limited speed?

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Graduate How exactly can CMBR tell us universe age

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Undergrad An asteroid is orbiting around the sun at a distance of 4.2

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Undergrad Difference between hot and warm pixels?

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Undergrad Astrophysics and astronomy resources for self-study

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Undergrad Why do black bodies emit light at all wavelengths when heated?

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Graduate What's the most distant observed star which is not a supernova or quasar?

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Undergrad Question regarding movement of universe

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Undergrad Question: What is our solar systems galactic position?

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Graduate Expansion of space or accelerating speed?

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High School Relationship between color of stars and their heat intensitiy

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Undergrad Does solar wind at 400 km/s take 4 days to disturb Earth's magnetic field?

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Graduate Gravitational waves and quantum physics

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Graduate Is Antimatter Present in Cosmic Rays?

  • Naty1
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Undergrad What happens when two black holes approach each other?

  • KnowPhysics
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Graduate Smolin's two predictions, circa 2006, True ?

  • rhody
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Undergrad Would converting all mass in the universe to energy raise the average temperature?

  • tiredryan
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Graduate How did scientists use WMAP to determine the flatness of the universe?

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Stargazing Could a very large telescope see a star as a disk?

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High School All the bodies in our solar system alligns in one line?

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Undergrad The Possibility of "Pure" Planets

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Graduate The Interplanetary Magnetic Field

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Undergrad Should the Drake Equation Consider Moons?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Will it ever be possible to create Matter from a large source of energy ?

  • Physicz
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Graduate Why doesn't cosmic expansion affect bound systems like atoms and planets?

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High School Farthest known astronomical objects discovered per year before 2000

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Graduate How can we see galaxies 13 billion light-years away?

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Graduate Could the Early Universe Have Collapsed into Black Holes?

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Graduate Origin of the Universe - Byteland.org

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Graduate Why doesn't the universe cool down during inflation?

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Undergrad Finding orbital state vectors of planets at a specific time

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Graduate Michio Kaku, Parallel Universes, and Galactic EZ Bake Ovens

  • Mr. Q
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Undergrad What caused Earth's orbital change 125,000 years ago?

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Graduate Does gravitational potential energy change as space expands between stars?

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Undergrad Did Mars belonged in Earth's Orbit at one time?

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Graduate Big Bang Big Schmang, astronomical redshift is an artifact of distance

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Graduate Is the rare Earth hypothesis correct about life's rarity?

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High School What are some theories of the creation of the universe?

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Graduate Calculating strength gravity over light years

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Undergrad Why are there Magnetic Fields on the Sun?

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Undergrad What is the force of gravity between Andromeda and the Milky Way?

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Graduate Asymptote of expected rotation curve velocities

  • Buckethead
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Graduate Reversing a Black Hole: Can It Be Done?

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High School Graphs of galaxy rotation curves?

  • Buckethead
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Graduate Big Bang supposedly set matter and energy

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Graduate Extended structure of dark matter

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Graduate How could matter-antimatter annihilation power spacecraft?

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Graduate Evidence of Rotating Black Holes?

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High School Is Astrobiology a Legitimate Scientific Field?

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Graduate Can a star and black hole orbit each other stably without accretion?

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Graduate Energy, blackholes and whiteholes

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Graduate Electron degeneracy pressure in QM

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Graduate Could panspermia have seeded life across the early solar system?

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Undergrad How Does the Sun's Motion Appear from Earth's Perspective?

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Graduate The First Particles After the Big Bang: What Do We Know?

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Undergrad Wavelengths increasing with space?

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Undergrad Can we track the Sun's galactic orbit and find sister stars?

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Graduate Hydrostatic Equilibrium in General Relativity

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Graduate Question on redshift/expanding universe

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Graduate Determining Distances to Galaxies

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What does 'try again next time' mean in a job interview rejection?

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Graduate Can the Big Crunch Theory Allow for Time Reversal?

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Graduate Limiting value of Hubble constant

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High School How To measure Moon Orbital Velocity ?

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Graduate 7-year WMAP observations: cosmological parameters and constraints

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Graduate When did H2O develop during the last 13.5 b y?

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Undergrad What is the relation between gravity and light?

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Graduate Space-time fabric distortion measuring

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Undergrad Coordinate systems in the solar system?

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Graduate What happened to the vacuum genesis theory of the Big Bang?

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Graduate Gravitons and gravity in a asteroid-planet interaction

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High School When will the Sun expand and what would happen to Earth?

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Undergrad Force of Gravity in terms of Density

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Undergrad Why would traveling through a wormhole take you to a different time?

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Graduate Accelerating Universe, Relativistic Mass and Dark Energy

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Graduate The Universe's Possible Cyclic Existence

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Graduate Is Gravity Truly an Entropic Force in the Universe?

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Eternal Universe - What Do You Think?

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High School Can I observe objects with negative declination from 45N?

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Graduate Is the omega point theory by Frank Tipler plausible?

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Graduate What happens to a system with mass below the Jeans mass?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Formulas for Elliptical Orbits X,Y,Z Co-Ordinates

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Graduate Observing Bright Stars: Project Checkup

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Undergrad Where does the missing energy go in redshift?

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Graduate Detection of gravitational waves

  • Ranku
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High School Resources for learning about black holes and astronomy

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Graduate Do gravitons exist and is gravity made of them?

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Graduate The Universe Exists Because It Has To

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Undergrad Does Hydrogen Alone Lead to Life in the Universe?

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Undergrad How Do Black Holes Influence the Path of Light?

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