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Undergrad What Makes Our Solar System Special?

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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Constant or Accelerating?

  • TalonD
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Graduate Are the Cosmological Coincidences Just a Matter of Chance?

  • Garth
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Will the universe run out of energy?

  • avant-garde
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Graduate Swiss Cheese" Cosmology: Luminosity Dist. & Single Void Size

  • wolram
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Graduate Spin angular momentum of black hole

  • spidey
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Undergrad What is the relationship between the speed of light and the meter?

  • TalonD
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Graduate Superluminal Recession & Cosmological Redshift

  • jonmtkisco
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Graduate What Defines Safe Orbital Distances for Planetary Bodies?

  • Insanity
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Graduate Light Waves at Edge of Universe Question

  • justwondering
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Graduate Universe as Computer Sim. - Practical Considerations

  • peter0302
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Graduate Slower rotation curves at centre

  • Zman
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Graduate How is the Velocity of Ejection Related to Quasar Redshift?

  • Harry2005
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Graduate Holographic Principle Research Paper

  • fauyd
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All our information comes from light

  • wolram
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Graduate What causes space time to come into existence?

  • mathius
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Undergrad How constant are constants? - ice skating

  • harrisonorbit
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Graduate Could Negative Mass Exist and Affect Black Holes?

  • jumpjack
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Graduate How Do We Understand the Size and Limits of the Universe?

  • Diffy
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Graduate Sim of first star formation (100 solar typical)

  • marcus
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Graduate Kinematic Origin of Cosmological Redshift: Bunn & Hogg

  • wolram
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Undergrad Matter in space create red shift

  • chosenone
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Stargazing Calc Eclipse Any Loc: What Softwares Do?

  • Prasanna Suman
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High School Best Telescope: Refractor vs Reflector

  • Adonis
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Graduate Can Our Universe Be in an Infinite Loop?

  • steveg
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Graduate The Size of the Universe: Does 78 Glyr Radius Make Sense?

  • VEReade
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Undergrad Determining Sun-Earth Distance: Parallax vs. Kepler's Law

  • Zman
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Graduate Radius of a star as a function of wavelength

  • natski
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Undergrad Why Does Blue Light Travel Faster Than Red in the Milky Way?

  • Zman
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Graduate If the big crunch theory is correct, Then wouldn't history repeat itself?

  • thewhills
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Graduate Black holes responsible for missing ET?

  • dilletante
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Stargazing Help get my telescope functional?

  • ReneeS
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High School What Eye Pieces Work Best for Beginners with a Meade DS114 Telescope?

  • ReneeS
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Undergrad Photometry of SDSS Data: A How-To Guide

  • randa177
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Graduate Direct Evidence of Dark Energy (?)

  • Atakor
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High School Could a Cosmic Explosion Propel a Space Probe Beyond Our Solar System?

  • Mackay1011
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Graduate Why Does the Equation for a Star's Central Pressure Become Singular at r=0?

  • arunma
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High School Can the Hubble Telescope Detect Life on Distant Planets?

  • Mackay1011
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Undergrad Gravitational equilibrium between earth and sun

  • cokerrm
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Graduate The constancy of the energy of the universe?

  • Cygni
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Graduate Expansion acceleration an anomaly?

  • ThomasT
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Stargazing Is It Safe to Watch a Sunset Eclipse?

  • pixel01
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Graduate Can Black Holes Create Baby Universes?

  • math_04
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Graduate Can dark matter be just a cloud of protons?

  • protonic_mass
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High School Scientists Discover Liquid on Saturn's Moon Titan

  • bassplayer142
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Graduate The physical meaning of expansion in cosmology

  • marcus
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Undergrad Accelerometer xyz anlges to ra/dec

  • samkane
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Graduate What is the level of precision in the universe?

  • aquaregia
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Graduate New model for the Shape of the Universe?

  • BigRedJeffro
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Undergrad Does Hubble's law rely on the Doppler shift?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Confused about space expansion? Me too.

  • azzkika
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Due to Mass Loss or a Repulsive Force?

  • cryptomorph
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Graduate WMAP 5 Year Data Release: Cosmological Interpretation

  • cristo
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Graduate Distance and the Hubble’s Constant

  • mysearch
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Graduate Axiomatic Universe: Philosophical Point of View

  • captain
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Undergrad Narrowing Hubble's Constant - 8 year study concludes

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Graduate Is the Total Energy of the Universe Zero or Constant?

  • deneve
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High School Hubble's Law: Can somone be nice and answer this.

  • XxBioFrenzyxX
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Graduate Observing Quasar Accretion Disks: Scientists See Standard Cosmology at Work

  • marcus
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High School Scientists find the trigger of the Northern Lights

  • MedLine
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Graduate Could we expect that temperature of CMB decreases or increases?

  • Ignition
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Graduate Does the fabric of space-time move faster than the speed of light?

  • artie
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Graduate The Mystery of Superluminal Recession Velocities in Cosmology

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Graduate Interpreting Friedmann’s Equation?

  • mysearch
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High School What Would Happen if the Sun Was Blue?

  • Nibles
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High School JPL Website Wrong: Venus & Uranus Rotate Opposite

  • Philosophaie
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High School What Determines Earth's Yearly Cycle?

  • biophysics
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Graduate Big Bang, Life & Quark Stars: How Long Before We're Cool?

  • TeeTeeKnow
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Graduate Real Pictures from Space: Are We Seeing Authentic Light Waves?

  • b_dobro
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Graduate Alternative cosmology: the arp-narlikar's variable mass theory

  • dan74
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Graduate Accelerating Universe and the Loss of Mass

  • MisterBig
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Undergrad Can We Find Fossilized Remains on Mars?

  • Ai52487963
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Graduate How did the quantum fluctuations in the inflationary universe turned classical?

  • chronnox
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Graduate Is the Copernican Principle Valid?

  • 81+
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Graduate The universe's boundaries and origins

  • thomasxc
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Graduate How Does Dark Energy Relate to the Cosmic Microwave Background?

  • ThomasT
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High School What is the Current Position of Planets in the Solar System?

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Big Bang & Doppler Effect: Viewing Start of Universe?

  • b_dobro
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Graduate How much do we know about gravity?

  • Desiree
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Graduate What Lies Beyond Our Observable Universe?

  • Dragohunter
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Urban Stargazing in Orange County - Is it Possible?

  • Ki Man
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Graduate Can Matter and Energy Travel Faster Than Light at the Big Bang?

  • glueball8
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Graduate Is a Universe Without Matter Possible?

  • Peter (IMC)
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Graduate Latest word from Lewis, Francis et all on radar ranging

  • jonmtkisco
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Graduate Is the End of the Universe Beautifully Explained in Krauss & Scherrer's Article?

  • marcus
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Undergrad Traversing the milky way galaxy when?

  • Desiree
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Graduate What is the accepted theory on universe expansion?

  • epkid08
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Undergrad What is the relationship between velocity and distance in a stable orbit?

  • atom888
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Undergrad The Ultimate Spinning Universe: Does It End?

  • PhanthomJay
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Stargazing Looked through an observatory telescope for the first time today

  • Daniel Y.
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New Gorgeous Video from Deep Impact

  • sysreset
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Graduate What is the relationship between entropy and the universe?

  • ThomasT
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Graduate Why don't galaxies move faster then c?

  • madmike159
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Graduate Forces Outside Our Observable Universe?

  • 81+
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Graduate Difference between expansion of space and objects just moving apart?

  • ThomasT
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Undergrad Will Uranus Ever Be Tidal-Locked to the Sun?

  • pixel01
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Graduate Pioneer 10 and 11 anomylous acceleration

  • Chaos' lil bro Order
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Undergrad Question about Jupiter atmosphere

  • fluidistic
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Graduate Formation of Voids: Unclear Picture

  • hellfire
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High School Should we Makemake anything about the name?

  • Ai52487963
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