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Graduate The Flyby Anomaly: Ranging Data, Transverse Doppler Effect

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Graduate Least massive earth like planet possible in the habitable zone?

  • Researcher X
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High School About how far are we now from where we were one year ago?

  • justwondering
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Graduate What Are the Inclinations of Planetary Orbits Relative to the Sun's Equator?

  • Leo Klem
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Graduate Absolute velocity, CMB, and doppler shift

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Graduate Life, the universe and everything

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Graduate Capturing an asteroid in Earth orbit

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High School Are All the Stars We See Actually Dead?

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High School View 65 Million Years of Time - Time-Travel Viewer

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Undergrad The Mystery of WASP-18b: Uncovering the Mass and Rotation of Its Mother Star

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Graduate Another expanding universe question

  • Sumo
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High School The Reality of Majoring in Astrophysics: Is it Worth It?

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Graduate Speed of light effected by expansion of space?

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Undergrad Doppler effect and expanding universe

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Graduate What is a cosmic red-out and how does it relate to the collision of galaxies?

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Undergrad What Holds People on Earth if Gravity is the Spacetime Fabric?

  • Nickriener
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Undergrad Moon-Earth distances and interactions

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Graduate Dark Energy, Expansion, and Acceleration.

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Graduate Accelerated expansion without Dark Energy?

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High School Is the 2006 edition of The Elegant Universe DVD worth the extra features?

  • liamgibbs
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Graduate Black Holes: Viable Scientific Theory? Or Voo-Doo Science?

  • John MacNeil
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If there is topic Is Our Universe Flat poin me.

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High School Would We Feel Heat Loss If All Stars Except the Sun Went Out?

  • BSMo
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Cosmic Darwinism - Definition & Overview

  • Nickriener
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Graduate Hawking Radiation: Theory & Evidence Behind Black Hole Emission

  • astro2cosmos
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Graduate The Production and Behavior of Dark Matter Neutrinos

  • friend
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Graduate Could Parallel Universes Really Collide?

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Is there good evidence we live in Block Universe?

  • Wangf
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Undergrad Why Are Orbits Elliptical? Rules of Circular Motion

  • Red_CCF
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Graduate Is Dark Energy Really Constant? New Evidence from Multiple Surveys

  • wolram
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Graduate Calculating Moon Coordinates During Solar Eclipse of August 11, 1999

  • Andru10
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Graduate Warping Space in a Craft: Gravity or Conventional Energy?

  • Bunting
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Undergrad Can a Telescope See Itself from 100km Above Earth?

  • Yoav
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High School What is the Case History of Discovering the Speed of Light?

  • Nickriener
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High School Why Do Jupiter's Moons Orbit in a Plane?

  • Pupil
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Graduate How fast do I have to go to get away from an explosion in space

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Graduate What Lies Beyond the Edge of the Universe?

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Graduate How do you create the big bang inside metamaterials?

  • changeseeker
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Graduate Orbital Effects of a Significant Mass Increase

  • Johmpa
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Graduate [Advice Needed:] Research in Astronomy/Astrophysics/Cosomology

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Undergrad Solving Brightness Equation with Procyon: 7L☉ and 11.41 light years

  • vbillej
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Graduate How do you define at rest in the Universe?

  • Xtyn
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Graduate What Happens to Accreting Brown Dwarfs in the Galaxy?

  • qraal
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Undergrad Galaxy Recession: Explaining Hubble's Law

  • astro2cosmos
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Undergrad Choices in Multiverse: Do People Differ?

  • Otherkin
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Graduate Does the conservation law prove that energy is eternal?

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High School What does Newton's universal constant mean and how is it used?

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Graduate Before the Big Bang now a topic for wider audience

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Graduate Escape Velocity and Earth's Gravity

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Graduate Understand Bubble Nucleation in Phase Transition - Analogy/Figuration

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Graduate Is the Cyclic Model of the Universe a Viable Alternative to the Big Bang Theory?

  • Naty1
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Graduate How Can a Single Radio Telescope Distinguish Between Point and Extended Sources?

  • mordeth
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High School Does Space Move? Answers to Your Questions

  • Komaraseru
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Graduate Is there something strange with the gravity during total solar eclipses?

  • Tilemachos
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Undergrad Light Speed in Vacuum: What's the Significance?

  • Nickriener
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Weight of a Black Hole?

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Graduate The Curvature of Space: Understanding the Flatness of the Universe

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High School Green lasers: how much power is too much?

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Autostar Systems: Efficiency of Current Auto-Star Systems

  • Gear300
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Undergrad Why Isn't a Collapsed Star a Black Ball?

  • menniandscience
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Undergrad What are the types of waves that can travel through space?

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Graduate Calculating Black Hole Matter Absorption and Its Impact on the Universe

  • AaronD
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Stargazing Is the Giant Magellan Telescope set to revolutionize ground-based astronomy?

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Graduate Accelerating expansion of the universe.

  • dmeagor
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Graduate Amplitude of velocity perturbations at last scattering

  • smallphi
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Undergrad Why can't light escape a black hole?

  • Joe436
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What Triggered the Big Bang According to 'The Universe' on History Channel?

  • Nickriener
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High School I can't understand why the sun moves across the ecliptic

  • Wattever
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High School New Telescope Buyer Seeking Expert Advice

  • Stratosphere
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Question about Expansion and the Center of the Universe

  • Salbris
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Graduate Cosmic Darwinism featured in new view of the universe

  • marcus
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Graduate The Relationship Between Distance and Brightness in Cosmology

  • rasp
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Graduate The singularity moment at the beginning of the universe

  • sokrates
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Graduate Are There Alternative Theories to Explain Redshift and Universal Expansion?

  • msumm
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Graduate Time technically stops after the event horizon correct?

  • Oh the irony
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Graduate Model Universe: Calculating Gravitational Info Rate

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Graduate What Life would see around other Stars

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Undergrad Black holes and conversation of energy

  • Oh the irony
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Graduate CMB Flux Density: Deriving For Present Cosmology

  • Nabeshin
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Undergrad Can Solar Storms Render All Electronics Useless?

  • stupified
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Graduate Red Shift - From Dark Material Or Recession?

  • Seraph316
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Graduate Cooling of Neutron Stars and Urca-process

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High School Why are the distant stars so far apart?

  • beeresearch
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Undergrad Why is the moon drifting into space

  • oldunion
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Undergrad Joining two orbiting space vehicles

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Undergrad Spectra Classification: Finding Sources for Stellar Objects

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Graduate How does the expansion of the universe affect redshift?

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Graduate What Could Cause a Big Crunch in the Expansion of the Universe?

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Graduate Are galaxies of antimatter identifiable?

  • Leo Klem
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Graduate Black Holes vs. Dark Energy: Who Holds More Power?

  • pegasus980
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Graduate Black holes, white holes, and time

  • ocman
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Undergrad Is There a Center of Mass to the Universe?

  • mg0stisha
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Graduate What is the significance of the Cauchy horizon?

  • yanniru
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High School Anchor a tube on earth and slope it all the way into space

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Graduate Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes?

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Graduate Could Minor Density Variations in the Universe Solve the Flatness Problem?

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Graduate Expected sound of colliding black holes

  • varsha
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Undergrad Redshift of Far Galaxies: What Causes It?

  • JD88
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Undergrad Difference between a red/blue shifted object and one in rest.

  • Cipz
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High School What is the composition of a gas giant's atmosphere?

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