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Graduate Space-Time Topology Theory: Learn About Popular Theories

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Graduate Is Gravity Geometry or Quantum in Nature?

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Undergrad Conversion of healpix fits file to normal fits file

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Graduate Stars, Ozone, & Evolution of Complex Life

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High School Is it possible to reach absolute zero?

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Undergrad Dark Energy Project: Studying the Universe

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Undergrad Why Do Stars and Galaxies Keep Spinning?

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High School About the Earth's orbital velocity

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Graduate Baryon asymmetry and conservation of charge

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Graduate What Caused the Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter in the Early Universe?

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Graduate Solving Extinction and Reddening in Photometric Analysis of M5 Globular Cluster

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Graduate How do you derive the tidal force equation?

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Graduate Estimating Planetary Cooling Times

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Undergrad How to calculate the position of stars

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High School Earth's distance from the galactic center?

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High School Classification of Stella Spectra

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Graduate Understanding Hagedorn Temperature: Can Light Speed Up?

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High School Moon's Orbit: Moving Closer or Farther From Earth?

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Graduate Proof of three dimensional space

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Graduate Our sources of fear/anguish; permitted by the physical universe.

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Stargazing Venus and Mars: Did They Ever Cross Paths in a Terrestrial Eclipse?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Sailing Through Space: The Technical Challenges of Interstellar Travel

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Graduate Is the CMBR Truly Uniform?

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Undergrad I'm confused about 1st Kepler's law and the 2 body problem

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Undergrad "Estimating the Age of a Black Hole"

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Stargazing Telescopes & Astronomy Magazines - Scientific American

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High School Why doesn't the asteroid belt block our view of the jovial planets?

  • Chronothread
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Undergrad What are the implications of Obama's space policy plan for NASA's future?

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Undergrad Explaining Mercury's Precession: Layman Terms

  • Nickelodeon
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Graduate Where is the energy coming from to push space apart?

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Graduate Is 'real space' merely a convenient mental representation?

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Undergrad Why is the density of Mercury 40% larger than the density of Mars?

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High School Is the Sun Dying? | Facts & Speculation

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Graduate Ways to accommodate modern cosmology

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Graduate Have You Considered Dr. Oliver Manuel's Neutron Star Model for the Sun?

  • latecommer
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High School The most distant object that can still orbit the Earth.

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Graduate Existence of a small planet (theoretically)

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Graduate What is the average density of a rocky world according to Nilssen's Law?

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Undergrad Understanding Gravity Waves: Detected or Theoretical?

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Graduate Proto-Earth was ~230 Earth Masses

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Graduate Astro- modelling a white dwarf via polytrope

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High School Confusion over gravity and tides

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Graduate Dark Matter in the solar system.

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Graduate What is Nilssen's Law of Stars and how does it relate to star data?

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Undergrad Charge of Black Holes: Mass Dependency Explained

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Graduate Confusion regarding jargon in journals

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Undergrad Why are stars often found far from their birthplace in nebulas?

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Graduate Which from scratch? (group survey)

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Graduate Is the Net Density of Any Space Interval Ever Zero?

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Graduate Olbers' Paradox, the CMB and the observable universe

  • cosmogrl
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Graduate Why Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

  • Chronothread
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Undergrad Google calculator impact on basic cosmo explanations

  • marcus
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Undergrad Kepler's 3rd law to determine mass of jupiter

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Undergrad Why Isn't Space at Absolute Zero Despite Its Vacuum and Low Temperature?

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Graduate Unique Roche limit and Saturn's rings

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Graduate Age and metallicity of Population I stars?

  • Stefan Pernar
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Graduate Modelling density as a function of time?

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Graduate Conservation of angular momentum

  • wolram
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Meteor Fireball Sighted Over Edmonton, Canada

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Graduate Questions about Black Holes And Time

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Graduate Is Space Real? The Existential Question of the Universe

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Graduate Dimensions greater than the third?

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Graduate Hawking Raditation and particle-antiparticle pairs

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Graduate Recession of M81 and the M81 Group?

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Undergrad The Stephan's Quintet and Arp's Theories

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Graduate What Are the Six Puzzles Challenging LCDM Cosmology?

  • wolram
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Graduate Dark energy, vacuum, and uncertainty

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Undergrad Does Empty Space Contain Mass and Energy?

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Graduate Can photons create black holes despite being massless?

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High School Planetary Alignment: Will It Affect Us?

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High School Big Bang Questions: How Did Earth Form?

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Graduate Age and structure of the Universe

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Undergrad Cosmology Paper Ideas: Need Help!

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Stargazing Telescope Illumination: Mirror Diameter & Focal Length

  • CaptainMarvel
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Graduate Explore the Mysterious Dark Photon

  • wolram
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Graduate Why Does Dark Matter Cause the Flattening of Galaxies' Discs?

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High School Stars in the Western sky in early evening

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High School Why Do Planets Travel in Elliptical Orbits Around the Sun?

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Graduate Confused about Imaging in Astronomy

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Undergrad Solar Wind and Its Impact on Planets

  • Ranger Mike
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High School How Can You Identify Meteorites?

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Graduate Mysterious Motion of Galaxy Clusters Detected

  • wolram
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Graduate Calculating Observable Universe Mass in the Lambda-CDM Model

  • Orion1
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Graduate Building a Universe: Is Matter, Energy Purley Information?

  • wolram
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Undergrad What are the benefits of using interferometry for exoplanet hunting?

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Graduate Could Dark Matter Form Planets and Stars?

  • sanman
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Graduate Is the Universe Homogeneous or Isotropic?

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Undergrad What Prevents Air from Flowing Out of Earth's Atmosphere?

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Graduate Can Dark Matter Be Utilized for New Technologies and Applications?

  • sanman
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Graduate Large-scale Cosmic Flows & Moving Dark Energy: Beltran Jimenez & Maroto

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Graduate Big Bang vs Black Hole Singularity: Matter Compressed?

  • TalonD
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Forensic Reconstruction of Copernicus' Face

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High School A star for every grain of sand.

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Undergrad What Atmosphere Would a Metal Planet Have?

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High School Can a Lost Space Toolbag be Filmed from Earth?

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Graduate How Does the Temperature of Hot Gases in Galaxies Support Dark Matter Evidence?

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High School Can anyone here please tell me about the sun dying?

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Undergrad Are All Stars Struggling with the Coronal Heating Problem?

  • spidey
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Undergrad Understanding how energy disappears

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Graduate Eccentricity & GR precession; Mercury vs. GPB

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