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Stargazing Is this USB eyepiece camera a lemon?

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Undergrad Accelerating Universe and spherical distribution of matter

  • Ranku
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High School Meteor Photographed by Accident: Spectacular Green Bolide

  • swampwiz
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High School Did the Big Bang expand faster than light?

  • brajesh
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High School Can We See Beyond the Voids in Our Universe?

  • David Fosco
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High School Creation and distribution of elements - looking for recommendations

  • BWV
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Undergrad Was the Ancient Universe More Compact Between 12,000 BC and 400 BC?

  • ASTRA225o4
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High School Are Most Star Systems Composed Mainly of Light Elements?

  • David Fosco
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High School Will You Capture Jupiter and Saturn's Historic Conjunction?

  • fresh_42
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High School Earth & Moon Gravity Gradient: Investigating Its Impact

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Graduate What is the jerk parameter in terms of the Density parameters?

  • Arman777
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Undergrad Infrared energy flux from the Moon

  • Incnis Mrsi
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High School The infinite and the infinitesimal

  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad How Does Space Travel Affect Natural Aging?

  • redferry
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High School An interesting consequence of the closedness of the Cosmos

  • bayakiv
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Graduate Black Holes Formalism: Overview of Misner Sharp Mass

  • AHSAN MUJTABA
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High School How can dark energy comprise 74% of the Universe?

  • Quotidian
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Undergrad Is Scale Factor Continuity and Differentiability Necessary?

  • Arman777
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High School Nature: "A massive white-dwarf merger product before final collapse"

  • tovisonnenberg
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High School Are subspaces of Hilbert space real?

  • Jaycurious
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Undergrad Laws of physics from initial conditions?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Transparency of a gas compared to a plasma

  • Herbascious J
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High School Can iron form via processes like the r- or s-process?

  • Teichii492
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Undergrad Is there any inflationary model without a fundamental theory?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Where do the electrons go? (in stellar nuclear fusion)

  • Thies_Kohl
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Undergrad Gravitational lensing: deriving magnification of lensed image

  • astrostudent21
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High School Snapped Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope

  • hutchphd
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Undergrad How is Adaptive Optics Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Galactic Center?

  • fresh_42
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Stargazing What do stars actually look like from up close?

  • Nathi ORea
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High School Question about things moving through outer space

  • Sundown444
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Undergrad Blackbody colour of metals versus stars

  • Nathi ORea
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Undergrad What are the Characteristics of a Perfect Meteorite?

  • davenn
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Undergrad Is there a Friedmann equation form with inflation?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Matter leaving a spinning galaxy

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Astronomy in a Simple Solar System

  • saddlestone-man
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High School Question about Planck's Function

  • tovisonnenberg
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Undergrad Could Planck Stars Explain Black Hole Bounce and Resolve Physics Paradoxes?

  • junjunjun233
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Graduate What is a dynamic spectrum measurement?

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate Is the Universe Undergoing an Infinite Series of Expansions and Contractions?

  • ranyart
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Graduate How to calculate Helium lensing

  • Jon Richfield
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High School What causes orbits to be inclined?

  • Dreksler
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High School Did the Big Bang follow multiple bangs? How did matter come to collide?

  • Nick Levinson
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High School Does Jupiter have an angular momentum problem?

  • Brian Turner
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Undergrad Some questions about absorption lines

  • PainterGuy
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Undergrad Change law of gravitation to remove dark energy and dark matter

  • Alain De Vos
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High School Question about the s-process and r-process in stellar evolution

  • TheCelt
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Undergrad At what wavelength do we observe ionized gas?

  • Mikkel
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High School Nervous about James Webb Space Telescope?

  • Maximum7
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Undergrad Can a Tube Launch System Harness Atmospheric Energy to Reach Space?

  • TommyThompson
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High School Pair Instability Supernovae & Electron Capture Supernovae

  • tovisonnenberg
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High School Earth's Hubble velocity and measuring Hubble at large distances

  • Nick Levinson
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Undergrad Contradictory Cosmological Values: Crisis for Cosmology?

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School Help in explaining a question on gravity

  • trees and plants
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Undergrad Do we first determine the gravity or density of a celestial object?

  • Dreksler
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High School Star at black hole event horizon

  • BWV
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Graduate Orbital shutter as a beacon for interstellar communication

  • VACUUMIST
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Graduate How you add gauge groups to spacetime

  • Haelfix
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High School The composition of interstellar dust

  • ChinleShale
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Undergrad Acquiring a Small Dataset of a pulsar signal

  • koroshii
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Undergrad Determining Relative Position of Space Object to Earth

  • Py3_3
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Undergrad What is the best current value for Omega_r?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate An article on Big Bang theory contradictions

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Question about spacetime singularities

  • trees and plants
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High School How does the cosmological constant affect gravitational collapse?

  • Cerenkov
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High School Why is Carbon considered volatile?

  • Qshadow
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High School Dark matter interactions other than gravity

  • jake jot
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Undergrad Fast Radio Bursts (FBR) detected in our own Galaxy

  • Tom.G
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The International Space Station as a Human Abode

  • BillTre
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Undergrad Cosmology Comoving coordinates and observers

  • AHSAN MUJTABA
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High School NASA discovers water on the moon

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Demonstration of comoving volume between 2 redshifts

  • fab13
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Undergrad Big Crunch and the Universe's shape

  • LCSphysicist
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Undergrad In the Universe do straight lines exist?

  • LightningInAJar
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Graduate Average of the power spectrum of Poisson noise

  • arcTomato
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Undergrad Fourier Series and Cepheid Variables

  • no_drama_llama_77
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Undergrad Shape of Dark Matter Halos & Visible Matter Angular Momentum

  • Ranku
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Undergrad How does the Singularity produce all the diverse matter in the universe?

  • shushi_boi
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High School How does the observable Universe have meaning?

  • allisrelative
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Undergrad Does Hawking Radiation Cause Black Holes to Evaporate?

  • Robert Friz
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Undergrad What Mechanism Creates the Jet Emanating From a Quasar?

  • Robert Friz
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Undergrad Earth's Rotation & Orbit: Effects on Space Objects?

  • timeuser84
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Undergrad Can Alfvén waves be observed on a stellar spectrum using amateur equipment?

  • Getterdog
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Closed vs. Open Crawlspace & Automatic Vents vs. Dehumidifer?

  • kyphysics
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Graduate Biological Agent Phosphine Found on Venus

  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School New theory of the early Universe

  • windy miller
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Undergrad Book to study the big bang theory

  • LCSphysicist
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Undergrad Number of known asteroids reaches 1 million

  • mfb
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Undergrad Huge Hole Found in the Universe

  • Buzz Bloom
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Stargazing What are some good beginner telescopes for under £100?

  • Zoiona
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Graduate Efficiency of a heat engine in space

  • phyzguy
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High School Question about calculating the density of the Universe

  • tovisonnenberg
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High School Difference between an Einstein frame and a String frame?

  • windy miller
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Graduate BGV-theorem and Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

  • haushofer
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Undergrad How fast do galaxies 1 billion light-years away move away from us?

  • Dreksler
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Undergrad Q: Volume of the largest ellipsoid in space which contains no stars?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Schwartzchild radius and the Big Bang

  • saltburnman
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Undergrad What happens to a small star after burning all of its fuel?

  • kelly0303
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High School Some historic remarks on astrometry by Terence Tao

  • fresh_42
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Undergrad IRAS Filter Profile: Computing ##\lambda_{mean}##

  • tryingtolearn1
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Undergrad Reason for matter rather than antimatter?

  • jcap
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