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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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Graduate Why can we see light from galaxies that formed 500 million years after the big bang?
- dnr
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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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