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Graduate Effective weight of a star's layers

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Undergrad CAMB Output File: TT Power Spectrum (C_l) Columns

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Graduate Superluminal Jets: 6c Speeds Detected!

  • Zman
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Undergrad EMwave in space and copper wire.

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Graduate What happens to a 0.7 solar mass star when it comes off the main sequence?

  • Maria76
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Graduate Alien Maps of an Ocean-Bearing World

  • marcus
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CD player as a gyroscope in space

  • qntty
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High School Outer space where there was no gravity

  • cragar
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Undergrad Star Calculator (Excel spreadsheet)

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High School Why do heavenly bodies rotate and what causes this rotation?

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Graduate How Long Does an Interstellar Cloud Take to Contract?

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Graduate How can we accurately determine the expansion rate of the Universe?

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Graduate Can a 3-Space Be Isotropic About Two Distinct Points Without Being Homogeneous?

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High School Location of the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Why Does the Expanding Universe Cause Red Shift?

  • ChrisXenon
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Graduate Gaining Orbital Energy from Sun's Gravity-Assist Flyby

  • Jorrie
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Graduate The maximum mass of white dwarf star

  • feynmann
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Graduate How Many Elements Formed from Primal Plasma?

  • wolram
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Graduate Explanation on how inflation solves the horizon and flatness problem

  • trv
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Graduate Why are the primordial fluctuations called scale invariant?

  • Allday
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Undergrad How to calc absolute magnitudes by comparing to the sun's luminosity

  • wyse
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Graduate Virtual pair production - black holes

  • geniusprahar_21
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Graduate lowest scatter Hubble diagrams ever published (Bailey et al)

  • marcus
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Undergrad Question about the sun and the earth long long ago.

  • LostInSpaceTime
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Graduate Is DNA Production a Constant in the Life Cycle of the Universe?

  • Belzy
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Graduate Do Galaxies and the CMB Share the Same Reference Frame?

  • neopolitan
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High School Gravity in the Middle of a Planet: Puzzling Questions

  • cosmicpencil
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Undergrad How Do Tides Reveal the Dynamics of the Earth-Moon System?

  • raknath
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Undergrad Dimensions vs Universes: Understanding the Distinction and Connection

  • thepopasmurf
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Stargazing Cleaning Eyepieces - What's the Best Method?

  • Sheneron
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Undergrad The Odds of Life in the Universe - What Are Your Thoughts?

  • cosmicpencil
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Graduate How is Hawking Radiation Related to a Black Hole's Mass and Time of Dissipation?

  • Synchrotron
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Graduate Determining the Best Wavelength for Darwin's Space Mission

  • wyse
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Graduate What is the force of the cosmological constant?

  • Ranku
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Graduate How display a mollview projection of CAMB output fits file ?

  • fab13
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Undergrad Could the shuttle land with Hubble?

  • squidsoft
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High School Is Mars Really Approaching Close to Earth on August 27th?

  • GetPhysical
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Undergrad Can elevons and rudders effectively steer spacecraft in the vacuum of space?

  • bluej774
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Graduate Can we determine the rotation speed of a black hole?

  • cosmicpencil
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Graduate How are Supernovae Ia and Dark Energy Related?

  • pi.rootpi
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Graduate Formation of Relativistic Jets from Black Holes

  • Oscar Wilde
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Graduate How Does Hawking's 4D Closed Manifold Theory Align with an Expanding Universe?

  • Schlofster
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High School What makes an asteroid an asteroid and not a comet

  • raknath
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Graduate Best model to explain expansion of universe is needed

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Graduate Assigning Contributions of Dark Energy to the Cosmos

  • RoKo
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Undergrad What are the actual dimensions of the Horsehead nebula?

  • Maria76
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Graduate What is Equation of state for the Dark Matter?

  • Dmitry67
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Graduate The new Hubble rate estimate of 74 means a new critical density.

  • marcus
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Graduate Attraction Forces During Total Eclipse: Sun, Moon, and Earth Explained

  • zarmewa
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High School Is the Spin of Earth Constant Throughout the Year?

  • Mahbod|Druid
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Graduate How can it be that gravity can bend time and slow it down

  • cosmicpencil
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Graduate What are the differences between rotating and non-rotating black holes?

  • Mr. Paradox
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Undergrad Speed of Light: Distant Galaxies & Observability

  • cosmicpencil
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Graduate Is it Possible to Escape a Black Hole Using a Spaceship and Hawking Radiation?

  • ACG
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Graduate Is Our Universe the Creation of Intelligent Aliens?

  • pavi_elex
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Graduate How does the equation-of-state depend on the Quintessence potential?

  • Amanheis
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Graduate Is gravity driving the expansion of the universe? If so

  • NWH
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Graduate Is Cosmic Radiation Accounting for Missing Matter and Energy in the Universe?

  • OB 50
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Graduate Schwartzchild Radius & entropy

  • hkhandrika
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Undergrad Is there really a black hole at the center of the Milky Way?

  • klite
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Undergrad Works of Riemann related to Astronomy that I can understand?

  • benorin
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Undergrad Does Star Evolution Always Lead to Expansion?

  • Maria76
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Graduate What Does John A. Wheeler's 'Participatory Principle' Mean for Modern Cosmology?

  • Belzy
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter: Analysis of Recent Science Media Coverage

  • nicksauce
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Graduate Moving an asteroid into Earth orbit

  • Count Iblis
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Graduate Dark flow: Proof of another universe?

  • buffordboy23
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Graduate Necessary Conditions for The Big Bang: A Scientific Exploration

  • gabrielh
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High School Giant mystery blob found near dawn of time

  • Ivan Seeking
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PG&E makes deal for space solar power

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate What Is Containing Our Universe?

  • Sorry!
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Undergrad Why are the orbits elliptical in shape?

  • yalgaar
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Undergrad How much lighter do I weigh at noon than I do at dawn?

  • thenewmans
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Graduate Gravity vs O-Force: Uncovering the Mysteries of Cosmology

  • youngkiwi
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Graduate What Was the Force Holding Matter Together Before the Big Bang?

  • XanPaul
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Graduate If objects are accelerating, are we measuring the systems getting smaller?

  • NWH
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High School Calculating Earth's # of Rotations Around the Sun

  • learningisfun
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Graduate Accelerating universe, decreasing hubble constant

  • Ranku
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Graduate Can We Bend Space-Time? Discover the Latest Experiment Findings

  • TalonD
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Undergrad Peculiar vs. Irregular galaxies? Difference?

  • Breedlove
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Undergrad How to Calculate Distances and Luminosities of Stars?

  • C.E
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Graduate Nothingness and the rise of something

  • litewave
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Undergrad Was that end of theoretical physics?

  • pavi_elex
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Graduate How are the percentage contents of the universe calculated?

  • Chronothread
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Graduate Why black holes do not have color charge?

  • MTd2
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Graduate Do any singularities have Infinite density

  • jamesb-uk
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Undergrad Expanding Light: Wave's Radius Increase - Why Not Dim?

  • vorcil
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Graduate The Hubble Constant and the Expansion of the Universe

  • madness
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Graduate How Far Can We Explore Beyond the Mysterious Space Blob 'Himiko'?

  • wolram
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Graduate Galaxy Questions: Types, Shapes, Evolution & Masses

  • C.E
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Graduate What Is the Observable Universe's Center and Expansion?

  • trisss
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High School Why Is the Earth Slowing Down?

  • Cyrus80772
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Graduate Is Space Really Falling Faster Than Light Near a Black Hole?

  • jobyts
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High School Photos of the our milky way galaxy

  • yalgaar
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Graduate Is the Age of the Universe Relative and What is the CMB Speed Measured Against?

  • kuahji
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Graduate What Drives the Expansion of the Universe?

  • Peter Watkins
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High School Spin of planets, bigger means faster?

  • valdar
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Graduate Does time exist for cosmologists?

  • oldman
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Graduate When is a Principle not a Principle?

  • oldman
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High School Discovering the Mystery of Satellite Shadows: A Beginner's Guide

  • learningisfun
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Graduate CMB Anisotropy: Measuring Our Motion Through Space

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