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Undergrad Electromagnetic frequency question

  • mcjosep
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Remnants of asteriods caught in image?

  • turbo
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Undergrad Betelgeuse Supernova: Did It Happen?

  • paigecoal
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Stargazing Building Telescope Signting Laser

  • wil3
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Graduate What Are the Current Controversies in Quintessence Theory?

  • NateQPublic
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High School Does Saturn Have a Hexagon on it?

  • Glennage
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Stargazing Amateur telescope eyepiece filters

  • Stanwyck66
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Spirit in the Air and Space museum

  • Blenton
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Graduate Dark Energy in Light of the Cosmic Horizon

  • wolram
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Undergrad How do black hole sizes change when they accrete matter?

  • danihel
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High School Perceiving the expansion of the universe in daily life

  • query_ious
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Graduate Is It Possible to Create a Universe in a Laboratory?

  • yoda jedi
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Graduate Big Bang or Big Bounce: Which Theory Explains Our Universe Better?

  • Chimps
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Undergrad Can Time Travel Alter Our Perception of Reality?

  • altairz
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Graduate What happens to matter falling into a black hole?

  • vorcil
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Graduate Could black holes be overgrown quark stars?

  • Tallin
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Graduate Universe smaller than wavelengths?

  • kashiark
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Graduate Infinite universe filled with uniform dust

  • techmologist
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Graduate Heisenberg uncertainty and particle creation in the early universe

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate Could savant cognition help us intuit quantum and relativistic physics?

  • GreatBigBore
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Graduate Modeling Light Geodesics in FLWR Metric: Trajectory and Convergence Analysis

  • fab13
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Stargazing Buying a first telescope on a budget

  • The legend
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Graduate Can the Universe Cause Itself to Exist from a Physics Perspective?

  • celebrei
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Undergrad Research Topics for B.Tech Mech Engg @ ISM Dhanbad

  • singh.vikas
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Graduate How Vast Is the Universe Beyond 50 Giga Light Years?

  • GreatBigBore
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Undergrad An explanation for the apparent gradient of tidal amplitude with latitude?

  • Doug Richard
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Graduate Don't even know which question to ask first

  • GreatBigBore
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Graduate Practical possibility of Hawking radiation?

  • jnorman
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High School Universal Gravitation: Does It Apply to Every Particle in the Universe?

  • MHD93
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Graduate What happened before Planck time after the Big Bang?

  • HarryDaniels
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Undergrad Does the center of the galaxy always appear brighter than the rest?

  • fawk3s
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Undergrad How long would a human mission to L1 take?

  • hhhmortal
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High School Does the strength of tides change between new moon and full moon?

  • SASGood
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Graduate Where does the negative sign go in the Rayleigh-Jeans frequency-wavelength conversion?

  • the riddick25
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Graduate Why did dark matter surprise us?

  • GreatBigBore
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Graduate What happens to Earth's orbit if the Sun disappears instantly?

  • Erick Svensso
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Graduate What Gave Mass to Particles After the Big Bang?

  • mikhailpavel
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Undergrad Hello Can someone tell me what sources in the Universe produce

  • Gorn
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Graduate Susskind's story doesn't match Krauss'?

  • GreatBigBore
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Undergrad How Are Declination and Right Ascension Measured in the Celestial Sphere?

  • astroboy17
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Graduate What is the total energy of the universe?

  • Char. Limit
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Graduate Inflation Theory: Could There Be Other Bubble Universes?

  • clm321
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Undergrad Star populations by spectral classes and masses

  • Barnak
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Undergrad Star generatations making elements

  • Pjpic
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Undergrad What Are Some Math-Focused Astrophysics Thesis Ideas?

  • Ryan H
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High School How did we photograph the universe?

  • RoyalCat
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Undergrad Finding the gravitational neutral point between Earth and Moon

  • seanhogge
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Graduate Exponential expansion and Hubble constant

  • Ranku
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Graduate Is it possible to create an artificial black hole?

  • dragonfly
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Graduate Does a flat finite universe have a center?

  • GreatBigBore
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Graduate Is Earth the center of the universe?

  • GordonDengyo
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Graduate Do dark matter and dark energy exist or is gravity theory wrong?

  • Minus1
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Graduate Earth-Sun Vector, Ecliptic to Equatorial Coordinates

  • science.girl
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Graduate Can a universe have a beginning but be spatially infinite?

  • renerob
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Graduate Age of Universe: Impact of Expanding Acceleration?

  • daviar
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Undergrad Megasuns containing helium and hydrogen that were huge

  • HarryDaniels
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Graduate Would mathematics rules be the same in sibling universes?

  • matt010nj
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Stargazing Do gravitational anomalies occur during solar eclipses?

  • ShashankX17
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Graduate Proportion of dark energy and dark matter

  • Ranku
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Graduate Information is a kind of dimension (like space and time)

  • alvarogz
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Undergrad COBE satelite strongest evidence of the big bang ?

  • land_of_ice
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Graduate Three-Body Problem Problem ( Astronomers )

  • choppu
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Graduate Measuring dark matter's repulsive force

  • taylaron
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Graduate Gravitational lensing angle equation

  • scupydog
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Graduate Supernovae Wind Shape Small Galaxies: Governato et al.

  • marcus
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High School What do you mean by 'multi-dimensional'?

  • upkiran
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Graduate Expansion redshift VS gravitational redshift?

  • anya2
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Undergrad Why Is the Search for Extrasolar Planets Crucial for Humanity?

  • alex.cordero
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Graduate General Relativity and galactic rotational speeds

  • Pierre007080
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High School What can you see with 7x50, 15x70, or 25x100 binoculars at night sky objects?

  • mjacobsca
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Stargazing Solar eclipse and radiation levels

  • sganesh88
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The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See (by AMNH)

  • DevilsAvocado
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Graduate How does the CMB interact with matter if it decoupled?

  • BkBkBk
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Undergrad Could we redirect space debris to the Moon as a construction resource?

  • salb4
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Graduate Is the Expansion of the Universe Making Galaxies Harder to See?

  • Skolon
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Stargazing Solar eclipse photos from 3.2MP mobile camera - orange sphere

  • sphyics
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High School Why do some older Hubble images have a staircase effect?

  • Shilly
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Undergrad The firmament is not as we see it, but

  • Tachyon son
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Graduate Do Pulsars Emit a Sonic Boom in Space?

  • Bob S
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Graduate Mass of star as function of Luminosity, Temperature and size

  • Barnak
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Graduate Light speed and gravitational matrix

  • daviar
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High School Would John notice the stick move or the sun go out first?

  • Stupid_1
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Mysterious Martian 'Forests' Discovered

  • Arch2008
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Graduate Does Earth need a giant moon for plate tectonics and mineral cycles?

  • Jackobear
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Undergrad Why is Earth in the habitable zone but not other planets?

  • nickwetz
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Graduate How do we know the universe is expanding from redshifts?

  • aib
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High School The Moon moves away from the earth - Is the theory correct ?

  • Bjarne
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Undergrad Could This Be a Nova or Supernova Seen on Dec 26?

  • DMuitW
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Graduate Yes, that is correct. Thank you for pointing that out.

  • aib
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Graduate The nature of the universe as interpreted quantum information

  • Evolver
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Graduate Can dark matter WIMPs with different spins make degenerate clouds?

  • Dmitry67
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Aurora borealis over India is it possible?

  • Cowtipper
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Graduate Does Universe Pulse? Theory or Naive Guess?

  • matt010nj
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Graduate The speed of sound of the inflaton field

  • chronnox
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What Happens if Gamma Ray Bursts Hit Earth's Ozone?

  • noblegas
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Graduate Seven questions on gravity, spacetime curvature, and universe shape

  • DeadLeaf
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High School Is mathematics the same in other universes?

  • Minus1
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Graduate Matter density in closed/open universe

  • fab13
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Graduate How does a collapsing core become a black hole?

  • durand
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