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Stargazing I want to make an astronomical telescope

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Graduate Can a far distant star's momentum affect the universe's energy?

  • old ned
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High School May 10-12 1999 The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared

  • Philosophaie
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Undergrad How Do We Determine the Direction of an Interstellar Signal?

  • jshuford
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Undergrad At what point, if any, would a spaceshp burn up in space?

  • Darrin
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How can I track Earth's distance to the sun on a specific date?

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High School What can be done about space junk

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Graduate Infinite density to finite density

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Undergrad Surviving the Sun's Disappearance: The Life Expectancy of Earth's Inhabitants

  • Charlie G
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Undergrad What Are Simple Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics for Beginners?

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Graduate Is Inertia Truly Uniform in All Directions?

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Graduate How far away could we detect ourselves?

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Graduate Why is the light speed delay ignored by cosmologists?

  • Peter Watkins
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Graduate Star Distribution - Types, Galaxies & Time

  • TheSicilianSa
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Undergrad How Can We Be Sure About Black Holes and Galaxies?

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High School How Far Are Stars? Calculating Distance to Earth

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Undergrad Is a Cosmic Dust Storm Heading Our Way?

  • Astronuc
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Graduate Literature on Black Hole Pair Production (?)

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High School Harnessing Gravitational Energy: A Power Source Abundant Throughout the Universe

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Graduate WMAP Data for l(l+1)Cl/2pi vs. l Plotting

  • S.P.P
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Undergrad How is heat transfered in space?

  • FountainDew
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Generating Energy from Black Holes: Reachable or Not?

  • ALYAZAN
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Undergrad Something and Nothing of Universe

  • redhedkangaro
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Undergrad Ciddor equation. this may be wrong forum, but i dont know where this goes.

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Graduate How Does String Theory Reconcile General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?

  • hermy
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Graduate What Can the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Teach Us About Our Cosmic Origins?

  • Peter Watkins
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High School Help me Super New bee many questions on energy-space relation and waves.

  • wannaknow4995
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Graduate Schwarzschild’s equations & Newtonian Potential

  • TheSicilianSa
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Undergrad Calculating Speed of Halley's Comet at Aphelion/Perihelion

  • swelzba9
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Undergrad What Is the Current Estimated Size of the Universe?

  • Rocketjj
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High School What I see in sky - Milky Way, other stars

  • Homer Simpson
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Graduate Is the FTL expansion of the early universe truly a stretching of spacetime?

  • SW VandeCarr
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Graduate Is the Universe's Size Determined by Hubble's Rate of Expansion?

  • TheSicilianSa
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High School Dropped popcorn kernel from space will it pop?

  • LionTigerFire
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Graduate Where Does the Lost Energy Go in Cosmological Redshift?

  • Bobbywhy
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Graduate Possibility of affordable interstellar space flight

  • wolram
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High School Real time effects of light, light speed, and the sun?

  • rolandov00
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Graduate Estimating the effective grammage of the galaxy

  • pastro
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Stargazing Hubble Space Telescope: Learn What It Is & How It Works

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Graduate Another Crackpot Theory: Neutrinos

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Stargazing Surefire Tips for Photographing Comet Lulin?

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Graduate Do Strange Stars and Strange Black Holes Really Exist?

  • kurious
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Graduate Time Scale Problem: Solving Diffusion Time of Particles in 2D Space

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Graduate Where does the sun rise, w/ axial tilt?

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High School What is BIAS? Learn About CCDs With Randa

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Undergrad Black Holes effect on each other

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Graduate 'Local' Dark Energy effect, if any?

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High School Is there a definite number of atoms in the universe?

  • Geekchick
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High School Astronomy for AS extended project + tips

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High School IB extended essay in Astrophysics

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Graduate Consciousness and other universes

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Graduate Impossible to graph position vs time?

  • leok
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High School Can a Gelatinous Ooze Exist in the Vacuum of Space?

  • daward74
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Graduate Examining Big Bang Location and Visible Object Density in the Night Sky

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Undergrad Orbital speed of stars within galaxies?

  • Holocene
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Graduate Logical Error of Cavendish Experiment

  • Mammo
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Graduate How Does Dark Energy Influence Galactic Movements Despite Being Undetectable?

  • jnorman
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Graduate What was the Time of Baryon Asymmetry After the Big Bang?

  • spidey
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Graduate 'Frame' symmetry breaking - when did it happen?

  • Dmitry67
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Undergrad Can a Close-up Apparatus Capture Distant Objects Like a Telescope?

  • japam
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Graduate Specific Intensity, Flux, Flux Density, Radiative Transfer

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Graduate Could the Cosmic Microwave Background Look Different from Other Vantage Points?

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Amazing Mars animation with some facts

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Graduate Status of Gravity & Net Energy of Universe: Is Theory Viable?

  • SW VandeCarr
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Graduate Can Time Differ in Nested Cylinders Traveling at Near-Light Speed?

  • pmurphy4
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Stargazing Why Doesn't the Secondary Mirror in a Cassegrain Telescope Cause a Blind Spot?

  • pegasusherd
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Undergrad How many stars in the Solar neighbourhood

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Graduate What exactly is dark energy and how does it interact with normal matter?

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Graduate Exploring the Worlds of 'o' and 'O': A Conceptual Experiment on Physical Laws

  • heldervelez
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Graduate Fermi-Dirac Statistics: What Is It?

  • Sriram.S
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Undergrad Calculating Mass and Density of Planets in Our Solar System

  • bassist_13
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Undergrad Moon's Inclination To Earth's Equator

  • Mammo
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High School How to measure the rotation period of the moon?

  • suski
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Graduate Changing the rotation of a natural satellite

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Undergrad Did Ether Exist Before the Big Bang?

  • redhedkangaro
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Undergrad Help with Escape Velocity Problem

  • CaptainEvil
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High School End of the Known Universe - Nick's Questions

  • coldfrnt
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Northern Lights: See a Light Pillar

  • pixel01
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Graduate Magnetic Reconnection vs Double Layers

  • Suede
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Graduate What Are the Leading Theories Behind the Moon's Origin and Inclination?

  • Mammo
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Graduate Jets Big and Small: Understanding the Universe through High-Energy Emissions

  • Sundance
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Graduate Understanding the Collapse of the Universe: A Look at Theories and Speculation

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Undergrad Can We Measure the Diameter of Stars Using Angular Resolution and Other Methods?

  • flatmaster
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Undergrad Gravitational pull of a black hole

  • Andrew Buren
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Undergrad Rotating transparent object with stars - what was it?

  • stargrazer
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Graduate Origin of Universe: Exploring Current Scientific Theories

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Graduate Can Gravity Waves Merge and Decay?

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Graduate What is the Difference Between 1D Spectra and 2D Spectra?

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High School What Makes a Good Starter Telescope for a College Astronomy Student?

  • LucasJ
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Undergrad What Is the Stone’s Speed at 96,000 km From Earth?

  • weltza
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Undergrad How can dark matter explain the need for modifications to the CDM model?

  • mesogen
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Undergrad Dark Matter: Could it be Plasma?

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Graduate How Far Must a Planet Be to Become Tidally Locked with Different Star Types?

  • rmatheny
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Undergrad Lunar Geothermal Energy: Is it Usable?

  • dimensionless
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Graduate Is the Universe Truly Nothing When Matter and Anti-Matter Cancel Each Other Out?

  • hadeka
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Graduate Origin of Black Holes: Can BH Be Formed During Star Formation?

  • rrchr
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Graduate Black Hole Event Horizon and the Observable Universe

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VOTE PF PHOTO CONTEST - I'm in a wide open space

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Graduate Critique of relativistic cosmology

  • wolram
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Graduate Could Baryonic Superfluids Explain Dark Matter's Mysteries?

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