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Graduate Can an Observer Safely Enter and Observe the Singularity Inside a Black Hole?
- davidschmid10
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Graduate Is Light in a Perfectly Reflecting Box Redshifted Over Billions of Years?
- Yoo
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Does the Universe Operate on Mathematical Logic?
- th3plan
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Graduate Effects of Tensor + Scaler gravity
- captn
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Graduate How Does Space-Time Influence the Fall of an Apple?
- thinker93
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High School Water on Enceladus - Cassini's Revealing Findings
- wolram
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Graduate Space Expansion and Light question
- hagendaz
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Graduate Questions About Black Holes & Event Horizons
- Charlie G
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Graduate Is Dark Energy Usable for Energy Extraction?
- Coin
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Graduate Why include -xi*H in the equation of state?
- odd-socks
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Graduate Could Our Universe Be Inside a Black Hole?
- Nel
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Undergrad Explaining Expanding Universe: Galaxies Moving Away
- electerr
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Graduate Super hubble and subhorizon fluctuations
- aristurtle
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High School Direction of the gravtional force on the earth
- tnutty
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Undergrad Equation to find the speed of a distant star
- DeepSeeded
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Unusual Redness of Betelgeuse: A Mystery in the Night Sky?
- scupydog
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Graduate Can Inter-Universe Energy Transfer Create New Realities?
- CozmicScott
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Graduate What happens to a Black hole when they die?
- Rashid
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Graduate Studying the formation of the very first stars
- marcus
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Undergrad Is the Sun's Gravity Enough to Propel Objects to the Corona?
- lubuntu
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Graduate Black Holes have no gravity below the event horizon? - How can that be?
- Dusty_Matter
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The Next Naked Eye Comet: What to Expect & When
- Stratosphere
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Undergrad Could the Universe Be Collapsing Without Our Knowledge?
- ONON
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Undergrad Sir Author Eddington and Einstein's GTR
- plutoisacomet
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Graduate Can Black Holes Decay and How Does This Affect Their Event Horizon?
- Haibara Ai
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Fantastic astrophotograpy book now out
- turbo
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Undergrad Why Is a Single Wavelength Used to Calculate Hubble's Diffraction Limit?
- TheMan112
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Asteroid 2009 DD45: Close Approach to Earth March 2nd
- Waveform
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Graduate The True Age of the Universe: Can We Ever Know It?
- christian_dude_27
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Graduate How Do We Know Time, Space, and Matter Were Created in the Universe?
- redhedkangaro
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Undergrad What would happen to Earth's orbit if it increased in mass or lost velocity?
- GordonDengyo
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Graduate What will happen to Earth when hit by a Neutron Star at the Speed of Light?
- Zdenka
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Undergrad Black Holes: Is the Hubble Image Real?
- dtmmfam
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Graduate HII regions, on-the-spot approximations
- sarahrose
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High School Why Aren't Meteors Heated by Friction?
- pixel01
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High School How gravity make planet to rotate?
- freeman1879
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High School Beginner Astronomy: Telescope Advice & Tips
- Charlie G
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Undergrad Space in an Atom: What is the Nature of this Space?
- vibjwb
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Graduate Constant k in Friedman Equation Explained
- wolfram
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Graduate Is Discrete Scale Relativity the Missing Piece of Einstein's Part III?
- Knecht
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Stargazing in Georgia: Left or Right?
- kimhen1
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Graduate The Structure of the Cosmos: A Map Revealing the Intricacies of Our Universe
- discord73
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Undergrad Can someone explain curved space time?
- Djrob99
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Graduate Gravity has to have an effect on time,when gravity can curve space ,it
- monty37
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High School Are There Stars Made of Something Other Than Hydrogen?
- discord73
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Astrophysicist Jobs: What's Available?
- wiiyogi
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Undergrad Calculating Orbital Velocity for a Satellite Orbiting Earth
- .:Endeavour:.
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Graduate How much does dust affect light from high redshift quasars?
- oldman
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Graduate Accelerating Universe Expansion: Big Bang or Repulsive Force?
- Chalk
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Graduate Big bang, little bangs, or sontaneous creation?
- Peter Watkins
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Graduate Is the Cosmic Microwave Background a Picture of the Universe's Past?
- electerr
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High School Is 2009 Really the Year of Astronomy?
- mjsd
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Graduate Sun's Corona Paradox: Temperature Defying Laws of Thermodynamics
- Je m'appelle
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Graduate Can We Detect Moons Around Earth-Sized Exoplanets?
- 888eddy
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Graduate A Structure Larger than the Sloan Great Wall?
- Petradog
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Graduate Can Balloons and Foam Revolutionize Our Understanding of Cosmology?
- Ich
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Graduate Could a Moon Be Transformed into a Mini Sun?
- bcohen1
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High School Is the Sun Anchored? | Experiments & Feedback
- Oscar Wilde
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Undergrad What is singularity? [Black Hole ]
- jasmine
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Undergrad Is this the approximate gravity of Mars?
- .:Endeavour:.
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Graduate Big Bang Predictions - Exploring Energy Density & Expansion Rate
- electerr
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Graduate Singularity - Black Hole or Naked
- mathman
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Graduate Confused about monochromatic flux
- constellation
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Graduate Friction in space as approaching light speed
- Jackslap
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Graduate Observing antiquark annihilation
- gtring
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Graduate Possible website title: The Origin of the Universe: A Scientific Inquiry
- hadeka
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Undergrad Is the Red-Shift of Galaxy Spectra Evidence for the Expanding Universe?
- Peter Watkins
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Undergrad Is the Big Crunch Inevitable in the Fate of Our Universe?
- Ollie_G
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Graduate Perpetuum mobile: tying galaxies together?
- AxelBoldt
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Undergrad Can Aliens Observe Plato Lecturing in Academia?
- grasp
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Stargazing Kepler Telescope is so productive?
- pixel01
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Undergrad Does Physics Predict How the Universe Will End?
- JeffNYC
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Graduate Understanding the 4-Dimensional Universe Expansion: A Philosopher's Perspective
- ronald_dai
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Graduate How Do Large Galaxy Fluctuations Challenge Standard Cosmological Models?
- wolram
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Undergrad Why Do Orbits Take an Elliptical Shape?
- koolraj
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Graduate Friction necessary for planet formation?
- AxelBoldt
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Graduate Does Gravity from Other Universes Affect Our Universe?
- Chirios
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Graduate Dark Energy, Distance to Galaxies and Distance in time.
- discord73
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Stargazing Saturn with new DMK, grayscale camera
- russ_watters
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Undergrad What is the magnitude of the magnetic field in solar wind?
- Philosophaie
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Undergrad How do we tell how far away a gamma burst was?
- pellman
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Graduate Are black holes and quantum entanglement interconnected in cosmological studies?
- sirchasm
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Graduate The Computational Universe: Debunking the Myth or Proving the Possibility?
- sirchasm
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Undergrad Why Are Planetary Orbits in Our Solar System Mostly Coplanar?
- Archosaur
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Undergrad Question about orbit determination with find_orb
- vacan
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Graduate Is the Universe Really Expanding or Just an Optical Illusion?
- Peter Watkins
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Graduate Ages of Stars from CMD: The Accuracy of CMD vs. Photometry Explained
- randa177
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Graduate Are Gamma Ray Bursts a Threat to Life on Earth?
- Paolo 2008
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Graduate Inconsistency in Concordance Model?
- JuanCasado
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Graduate Big Bang - Gravitational field of antimatter + matter before annihilation
- Keijo
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Stargazing Has an astronaut ever captured a photo of a solar eclipse from space?
- natski
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Graduate Why does a universe with a spherical geometry have to be finite?
- Jack_O
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Graduate Mathematical principle for decomposing metric fluctuation
- aristurtle
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Graduate Precession betrays Nemesis position?
- Andre
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Graduate Dark Matter: An Unexplained Mystery
- wolram
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Graduate Can dark energy be converted into dark mass?
- pentazoid
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Graduate How many exoplanets with an atmospheric oxygen signature would be necessary?
- zankaon
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High School Creating oxygen(co2) out Of hydrogen
- athrax
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Graduate Is the universe truly isotropic at its boundary?
- slipknotFor
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