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Graduate What Does 'Quake Confinement' Mean in Astrophysics?

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Graduate Wormholes and time travel - Problem

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Graduate What is Causing The Universal Expansion?

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High School How do astronauts communicate with Earth during space missions?

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Galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum

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Graduate CMB Redshift Question (Visible Wavelengths)

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Graduate The Mystery of Expanding Space: Uncovering the Truth Behind Dark Energy

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Undergrad How to Calculate Inclination Angle for Galaxies in the Tully-Fischer Relation

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High School Suggest topics for a 1-sem HS Astronomy course

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High School How does the Satellite manage to stay in earth's orbit?

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Stargazing Buy a Telescope Under $400 | Astronomy For Beginners

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Undergrad Age of the sun+age of previous stars = universe ?

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High School Looking at center of our galaxcy question.

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Graduate Is spacetime truly flat without gravitational influences?

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Graduate How Does Magnetism Influence Black Holes Despite Escape Velocity Challenges?

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High School Plotting Elliptical Orbits for Beginners

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Graduate What is the time dependence of the Omegas?

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Graduate Could a Black Hole Explode Like the Big Bang?

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High School Can anyone explain the need for elipses?

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Graduate Is spacetime the surface of a 5 dimensional ball.

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Undergrad Turbulent Cells and Telescopes: Seeking Help

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Graduate Can dark matter be trans-Seaborg elements?

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Undergrad Can someone explain angular power spectrum

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Graduate What do you think about the Cosmic String theory?

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High School Which is Better for Stargazing: Sea Level or High Elevation?

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High School Can we travel back and forward in space?

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Undergrad What Are Good Resources for Understanding the M-sigma Relationship in Astronomy?

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Graduate Lyman-Alpha Blobs emit very specific UV light

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Undergrad What would we need for a warp drive?

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Graduate Measuring the Expansion of space

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Undergrad Calculating time based on solar position

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Undergrad Is 10 Arc Seconds Accurate Enough for Sending Objects to the Moon?

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Graduate Cosmology Question: Finite Universe with Overdensity & Cosmological Constant

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Undergrad Black Hole Brief: Seeking Feedback

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High School Understanding the Moon's Role in Tides

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Graduate Does black holes exist all around us?

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Graduate What density does something have to have to be considered a black hole?

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Graduate Is Chaos a Property of Time Since the Big Bang?

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The universe where McCain got elected.

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High School Lightning in Space: Fact or Fiction?

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Graduate Getting vectors out of JPL Horizons

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High School Looking for the Virgo constellation

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Undergrad What Are Orbital Vectors and How Do I Calculate Them?

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Graduate How do you work out the largest angular scale to which it is sensitive

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High School Why is the dust tail of a comet a tail?

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Is It Possible To View The Milky Way In The UK

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Undergrad Wormholes for Dummies Question .

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Local Group Center: Direction of Center

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Undergrad What Happens If a Spaceship Exceeds the Speed of Light?

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Graduate Why should the expansion of the universe be slowing down?

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Graduate Solving Spectral Plotting Confusion with Hitran Database Data - Help Needed!

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Graduate Creating a Mini Self-Sustaining Star: The Superstrong Chamber Experiment

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Graduate What is a Graviton? Reconciling Gravity and Quantum

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High School Making The Best of Light Polluted Skys

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Graduate How do solar neutrinos interact with nuclei to create radioactive elements?

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Poll: Have you ever seen a UFO, alien or cosmic object?

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Undergrad Calculating Delta-V in Hohmann Transfer Equation

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Undergrad Why is the center of the galaxy located on the elliptic?

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Graduate Is Zero Point Energy a Fundamental Part of the Material Universe?

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Graduate Is another ame for the zero point energy field, the vacuum?

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Graduate Questions about black holes for a fictional story

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Graduate Questions about the origin of the universe

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Graduate Can the Universe Keep Dividing into Smaller Clumps of Matter?

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Graduate Expanding universe and solar system

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Graduate Where Does the Energy of Redshifted Light Go?

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Graduate Is the Expansion of the Universe Linked to Our Perception of Time?

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Undergrad Stationary satellite in high latitude

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Undergrad Question about the expansion of the universe

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Undergrad Star Catalogue Question - Stars near the Ecliptic

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Undergrad Deorbiting q, low speed reentry?

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Graduate Gravitational Constant: G=0.0412 pc (km/s)^2 M_{\odot}^{-1}

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Challenge, tell me what the u is about in ten easy steps

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Graduate Are Black Holes Theoretical Phantoms?

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Graduate Initial Mass Function physics problem

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Graduate Can I Survive Moving Into a Black Hole?

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How Can We Effectively Communicate with Extraterrestrial Life?

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Graduate Big bangs origin relative to the earth's location

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High School Origins of the universe theories?

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Graduate When Should I Study Thermal Physics Relative to Quantum Mechanics?

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Stargazing Will Reflector Telescope Work Without Eyepiece?

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Stargazing Help My telescope fell and now it won't focus

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Graduate Dark matter and microscopic black holes

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Graduate Are space and time definable without atoms?

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Graduate Expanding Space: How Do We View It?

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High School Help w/Viewing Saturn and other stuff

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Graduate Solution help for the Geodesic Equation

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North Korea about to launch ICBM test and/or space satellite

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Graduate Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect - redshift independence

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Graduate FRW vs. Minkowski: Variable Speed of Light?

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Undergrad The Circle and Sphere - Why so prevelant in the Universe?

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Graduate Gravity and universe expansion could be caused by the same thing.

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Undergrad How is the Age of the Universe Calculated Despite Light Travel Distance?

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High School Answer: Declination of the Sun - Spring Equinox

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Graduate Is the universe infinite in size?

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Graduate How do Black holes radiate energy?

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Undergrad How do the s-process and r-process create elements in stars?

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Undergrad Why Does Our Galaxy's Center Look Bright Despite a Black Hole?

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Undergrad Prof. Kaku's approach on why we haven't met intelligent E.T. life.

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North Korean Satellite Fate | Know Today's Launch

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Undergrad Calculate distance between stars in a globular cluster?

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