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Graduate Something about The Beginning I could never figure out

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Undergrad Will Sudan Experience a Predicted Minor Impact Tomorrow?

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Stargazing Discover the Capabilities of 25+ Meter Telescopes Beyond Engineering Projects

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Graduate What is the Solar Evaporation Time?

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Graduate Singularity Theorem Proof on IanBay's Site

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High School Hurricane size whirlpool on the Sun

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Graduate ICosmo: an Interactive Cosmology Package

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Undergrad Throwing paper airplane towards space question

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Graduate Singularity in reference to blackholes and right before the big bang?

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High School Earth's Orbit & Tilt in N. America: Winter Closest, Summer Farthest

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Graduate Virial Theorem in Stellar Dynamics

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Undergrad Why is the closing velocity of Andromeda and our galaxy so high?

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Graduate JDEM/Beyond Einstein, is it still alive?

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Graduate Astrophysics Help: Calculating Mass of Hydrogen Converted in Sun Over 10B Years

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Undergrad The Secrets of the Universe: Measuring Age through Light Travel

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Undergrad A theory that universe is infinite

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Graduate Where Did the Superforce Go After Splitting?

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Graduate Abundances for Small Magellanic Cloud

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Undergrad Calculating the Earth's Elliptical Orbit around the Sun

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Graduate How Does Gravity Affect the Speed of Time Flow?

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Graduate Will a Halved Earth Orbital Period Affect Solar and Sidereal Days Differently?

  • Carolyn
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High School Why Do We See the Same Stars All Year?

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What are we waiting for to get into space?

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What New Images Did Messenger Capture During Its Mercury Fly-by

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Graduate The Big Bang: Where Did it Come From & Does Time Exist?

  • cam875
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Graduate My idea on what happened to all the antimatter.

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Graduate Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds (news of improved instrumentation)

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Graduate Counting Subfields of F_p in Algebra

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High School Where Can a 9th Grader Find Advanced Astronomy Resources?

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Graduate What Aspects of the Universe Were Inflated During the Big Bang?

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Undergrad Figuring out mass of a star based on diameter

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High School Prove that the earth goes around the sun

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Undergrad Simple question about certainty/confidence in astronomy

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Graduate Do Population II Stars Have Planets?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Should the universe's definition include higher spatial dimensions?

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Undergrad Can Light Travel Forever in Space While Baryonic Matter Decreases?

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Graduate Do Orbital Inclinations Affect Hohmann Transfer Efficiency?

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Graduate The Standard Model: Unified Forces or Unanswered Questions?

  • wolram
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Graduate Are We Real? Universe Baryons, Photons, Asymmetry

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High School Are G-forces smaller when traveling in space?

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Undergrad Light travelling through a black whole

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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude of Binary Star System

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Graduate Can a black hole be stabilized through Hawking radiation and mass feeding?

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Graduate Detecting Bulk Motion of 700 Clusters with KSZ Effect: Results & Implications

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High School Why Do Stars Appear to Move Away From Us?

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Graduate Is the Observable Universe Really Limited to 13.7 Billion Light-Years?

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Graduate Time coordinate in the rain frame

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Undergrad No Green Stars: What's the Story?

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Graduate Understanding the Chandrasekhar Limit: Neutron Stars & Spin Effects

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High School Why the earth is rotating along its axis?

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Graduate Dark Energy, the Cosmological Constant, General Relativity and you

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Graduate Does a Schwartzchild blackhole have a singularity?

  • Phrak
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Stargazing Need Help - Learning to use a telescope

  • Shilly
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Undergrad Benchmark redshifts to tell your kid brother or sister

  • marcus
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Graduate Couple of Bounce Questions Regarding Black Holes / Universe

  • PhysicsDilettante
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Undergrad Question about the orbiting plane of the moon

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Graduate Can We Reach and Surpass the Universe's Edge?

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Undergrad Background Radiation: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe

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Undergrad Single Dish Radio Astronomy Inefficiencies

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High School Understanding Mass, Energy & Space: How Much Energy Does it Take to Move 1 Ton?

  • raezair
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Graduate How long does it take for a white dwarf to go supernova through accretion?

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Stargazing Is a Radio Telescope Less Sensitive on the Galactic Plane?

  • Sanjay87
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How many more dwarf planets can be named after deities?

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Undergrad Can we reach Mars using thrusters and maintain a constant velocity?

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Undergrad HELP .The Azimuth and Altitude of Star Vega

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Graduate What Can We Learn from the Distant Gamma Ray Burst GRB 080913?

  • wolram
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Undergrad The sum of all energy in the universe

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Undergrad Does Geological Evidence Support the Existence of Planet X?

  • Utwig
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Graduate Can anything fall into a black hole?

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Graduate Why Do We Get an Einstein Cross Instead of a Skewed Ring?

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High School Building a Telescope with 6" Mirror & Focal Ratio of 3.3 - $50

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Graduate More on Infinity: Why Does Balloon Analogy Not Describe Universe?

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Graduate The inconsistent current picture of the universe?

  • Artlav
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Graduate Does the expansion of the universe violate conservation of energy?

  • Anzas
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Undergrad Earth's magnetism and Sun's temperature

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Graduate Identifying Cepheid Variables from Spectrum

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Graduate Loop Quantum Gravity: Is the Speed of Light a Function of Wavelength?

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Graduate Is dark energy constant to emtpy space?

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Graduate Collapse calculation (surce code?)

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Stargazing Shaving mirror for reflecting telescope

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Graduate Do Bounce Theories Consider the Role of Elements in Cosmic Collapses?

  • wolram
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Graduate Common parlance for Cosmo forum, proposed

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Graduate Relative Velocity: Can We Exceed the Speed of Light?

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High School Help Calculating Parallax Error - Physics Forums

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High School What Is the Fourth Dimension: Time, Space, or Something Else?

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Undergrad Hundreds of Rogue Black Holes in Our Galaxy - Is Earth at Risk?

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Graduate Matter, Antimatter, and Micro Black holes

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Graduate Origin of the Uinverse / baby universe

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Graduate Hydrodynamics of structure formation

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Graduate Inventing Moons and their Eclilpses-help

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Undergrad How do we know how much visible matter exists?

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Undergrad Orbital question(elliptical vs circular orbit)

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Undergrad Evaluating the age of a universe

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Graduate Upper BH mass limit, another structure formation clue?

  • marcus
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Graduate Right after the bigbang, microblackholes were formed

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Graduate Blue Shift objects; is there a list/table?

  • sounddoctorin
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Graduate Is Ned's Calculator Mislabeling Angular Size Distance?

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Undergrad Can Relativity Explain the Possibility of Aliens Visiting Earth?

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Graduate Modifying Newtonian Gravitational Force

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Graduate Oscillating universe and entropy

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