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Graduate Is the Higgs field the substance that fills the universe?
- Simple10
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Undergrad Hopefully not too stupid question about gravitational waves
- fropome
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Graduate Is the physics within the Solar system really understood?
- Garth
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Graduate What Units Should I Use to Calculate Planetary Orbit Time?
- lagwagon555
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High School Can You Move a Spaceship By Running and Jumping In It?
- Pheo1986
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High School Is the moon closer or further away to us than predicted by Newton
- seasnake
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Graduate A question about the flatness of the universe.
- $id
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Undergrad Does Light Slow Down During Long-Distance Space Travel?
- eha
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Undergrad What is the relation between redshift and absorption lines in galaxies?
- nietzsche
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High School Please answer a layman's questions about the Big Bang
- lavand
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Graduate Was there a 'birth of gravity'?
- Rymer
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Graduate Would anything survive our sun's eventual nova?
- flatmaster
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High School Are there any objects between Mercury and the Sun?
- Richard87
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Graduate Neutron stars and blue/red shifting
- JRPB
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High School Viewing Earth from the Moon - Would it Stay in One Spot?
- KevinMWHM
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Stargazing Learning How to Use a Telescope on Your Own: Advice and Suggestions
- Wattever
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence the Big Crunch Hypothesis?
- wolram
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Undergrad Energy time relationship from an observer in space
- Entropee
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High School Has Jupiter Been Bombarded by Another Object?
- Astronuc
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Stargazing How do space telescopes detect non-visible light?
- modulus
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Graduate Red shift distance relationship and dark energy
- hkyriazi
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Graduate Is There an Upper Limit to Planetary Core Density?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Proof of planetesimals for asteroid belt?
- zankaon
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Graduate What happens when an anitmatter blackhole collides with a matter blackhole?
- Herbascious J
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Graduate Calculating Distance to Cefeide Star w/ Stellar Extinction
- Sux
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Undergrad Hawking Radiation: How Do Black Holes Emit?
- cragar
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Graduate Question: How does gravity affect the speed of light in a black hole?
- boredjavi
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Graduate Interpreting Negative Dark Energy Density in the Expanding Universe
- zeebo17
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ISS Toolbag visible with the naked eye now
- Count Iblis
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Graduate Detect the cosmic neutrino background
- nicksauce
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Graduate Observable Universe vs. HyperUniverse
- Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Source for the margin of error of curvature
- zeebo17
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Undergrad Why Don't Heavier Elements Sink to the Sun's Core?
- Nickelodeon
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Graduate Low entropy in extreme tempertures?
- pivoxa15
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Stargazing Gravity anomaly during solar eclipse.
- diabolic
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Boltzmann Brains & Landscapes
- 0xDEADBEEF
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Undergrad The Expanding Universe: Understanding Hubble's Law
- jbutcher
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Graduate Why Didn't the Universe Collapse Back to Singularity After the Big Bang?
- chi22
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Graduate Equivalence of the 'expanding space' & 'kinematic' paradigms
- nutgeb
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Graduate Will humans ever really understand why the universe exists?
- Holocene
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Graduate How likely is a super solar flare?
- bwana
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Graduate Is the H.U.D.F. view in excess of 13 bly's. or not.
- Peter Watkins
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Undergrad Difference between Thermal and Kinetic Energy
- FrankPlanck
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Undergrad Faster than Light: Understanding the Expansion of the Universe
- DARTZ
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Graduate Revisiting WMAP Data Reveals Significant Changes in CMB Power Spectrum
- nicksauce
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Graduate Is Dark Matter Just a Reflection of Our Flawed Theories?
- DecayProduct
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Undergrad How to find the position of a star in the sky
- Imaginedvl
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High School First broadcast TV satellite's orbit
- Pengwuino
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Undergrad Bigbang and its light coming to us
- shabeer_quark
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Graduate Evidence for stellar evolution since the Big Bang
- hkyriazi
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NASA's Decision on Hubble's Fate: To Crash or Preserve?
- Sorry!
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Graduate Could Our Universe Be Fractal?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Can a Stellar Object Become a Black Hole through Relativistic Mass Increase?
- VelociBlade
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High School How Can Beginners Learn Physics and Cosmology Effectively?
- joshuabearden
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Undergrad Life & Death of a Star - Confused
- KingAntikrist
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Stargazing Total Solar Eclipse 2009: July 22
- StarShips09
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Graduate Do the Universe's Greatest Voids Challenge Hubble's Law?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Why do people refuse the idea that something caused the big bang?
- Aten
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Graduate Is the moon is moving away from us? or is the universe just expanding?
- bwana
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High School Why Doesn't the Moon Revolve Around the Sun Instead of Earth?
- pavi_elex
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High School What Is Time and How Does It Influence the Universe?
- bondinthesand
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Graduate The gravitational binding energy of the Milky Way?
- Researcher X
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Graduate Did Anti-Gravity Play a Role in the Universe's Early Expansion?
- scupydog
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High School What Really Happened to the Apollo Flag?
- seasnake
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Undergrad Satellite is in low orbit around the Earth
- Mentallic
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High School What Color Would the Sky Be with Different Suns?
- Garland220
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Graduate How Does the Sun's Luminosity Evolve Before the Helium Flash?
- qraal
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Graduate Can spacetime exist without energy?
- dshea
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Graduate Space Elevator on Mars: Feasibility, Design Issues & Vibration
- sid_galt
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Graduate Gravitation: curved spacetime or a force?
- vinirn
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Graduate Universe Expanding: Space or Matter?
- Gear300
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Graduate Can Dark Matter Travel Faster Than Light?
- ACG
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Graduate Detecting gravity's effect on light
- ideasrule
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Undergrad Can Centripetal Force create Gravity?
- oragami
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High School Why haven't we launched any artificial satellites that orbit the Moon?
- Curiousity28
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Graduate Can a primitive galaxy nova or supernova?
- Loren Booda
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What Do Astronauts Research on the International Space Station?
- Tachyonie
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Graduate Where Do Neutrinos Travel in the Universe?
- davilla
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Graduate What are the implications of a perfectly flat universe?
- Rymer
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High School What Can You See with a Small Telescope in Missouri?
- Pupil
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Graduate What Is the True Nature of Gravity and Why Does Mass Attract Mass?
- DRJTower
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Graduate Why Is the Universe Comprehensible?
- WaveJumper
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Graduate How many baryons are there in the universe?
- franoisbelfor
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Graduate Can Relativity explain Dark Matter?
- srfriggen
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Graduate How unlikely is the formation of an earth size planet made of Uranium?
- Researcher X
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High School Understanding Gravity: The Moon's Orbit in Our Solar System Explained
- MonkeyHouse
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Graduate Large Gas Cloud near Aquila Rift in Milky Way
- Astronuc
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Undergrad Can we use paramagnetism to create a magnetic field on Mars?
- Paper
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Undergrad Supernova explosions element detection.
- pratzzz
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Graduate Earth Atmospheric Absorption Lines
- cepheid
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Graduate Galaxy Clusters & Superclusters: Definition or Ad-Hoc?
- nicksauce
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Graduate What substance fills the universe?
- Simple10
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Is Mars Going to be Highly Visible to Earth in the Near Future?
- RAD4921
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Graduate Can We Detect Uranium and Thorium Fusion in Stars Through Spectral Analysis?
- dangerbird
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High School Direction of rotation in our Solar System
- mabs239
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Graduate Can the universe itself develop awareness or even omniscience?
- Mgt3
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Graduate New Theory of Gravity: Is it Possible?
- Nightness
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Graduate GE - GMm/R: Does Vacuum Energy Affect Gravitational Fall?
- keepitmoving
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Graduate Misconceptions re: Cosmological Redshift
- nutgeb
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Graduate Keplerian scattering through an array of mass lumps
- FunkyDwarf
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