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Graduate Merger of Neutron Stars and Black Holes

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Graduate Most Distant Galaxy: Mysteries Explained

  • yuiop
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Graduate How Does Quark-Gluon Plasma Influence Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis?

  • jal
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Graduate Why the excess of young stars close to Milky's supermassive BH?

  • marcus
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Binary Star System Data - Get Answers Here!

  • glueball8
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Graduate The Blackhole Paradox: Can EM Radiation Escape?

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Undergrad What does the theory of the big bang say about this

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Graduate Our Local Group's Microwave Background Radiation dipole

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Stargazing Telescope Advice: 6" vs 8" Dobsonian

  • Sheneron
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Graduate Is dark energy really responsible for the expansion of the universe?

  • wolram
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Graduate Entropy & Cosmology: Arrow of Time Paradox

  • yuiop
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Graduate What Is an Unambiguous Standard for Pulsar Periods?

  • nicksauce
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Graduate Is Spacetime a Tangible Entity or Just a Relational Concept in Physics?

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Graduate How does the light from distant galaxies support the theory of the Big Bang?

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Graduate Does a finite universe make sense to you?

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High School Why is a space probe spinning around its own axes, when flying through space?

  • Bjarne
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Graduate Untangling the Implications of CMB for the Cosmological Model

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Graduate Could it be possible that gravity is the reason why the universe is expanding?

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Stargazing Building a telescope ( from another one )

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Is black hole a racially insensitive term?

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High School Energy carried by the bulk motion of matter

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Undergrad Earth-Moon Barycentre: Movement & Effects

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Undergrad Expanding universe expanding atoms

  • Adrian Baker
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Undergrad At what altitude and velocity is an orbit geosynchronous?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Does the Planck length grow with the scale factor?

  • robheus
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Graduate Terminology: Omega_0 = Omega_m? and more

  • hAndrew
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Undergrad Why Do Objects in Space Spiral Around Larger Masses?

  • nuby
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High School Why Does Thrust Differ for Objects of Different Mass in Space?

  • DarkElfa
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Undergrad Unanswered phenomenon in earth orbit

  • adastra
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Undergrad Universe Expansion: Understanding the Speed of Light and Galaxies Far Away

  • Sorry!
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Graduate How to measure the tangential component of velocity of receding starsor quasars?

  • aniketp
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Graduate Red - blue shifts and stellar rotation

  • Libmr2bs
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Graduate Topology Q: Curved Space w/out Higher Dimensions?

  • Pavel
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Graduate Beginning of space, time, matter, energy

  • PhysicsDilettante
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Graduate Is the universe a recycling bin? (Entropy)

  • Flux
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Undergrad Is IK Pegasi (HR 8210) dangerous to us at all?

  • izzywizzy
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Slowing Down or Speeding Up?

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High School The Mysteries of the Universe: A Parent's Guide

  • Dumbmum
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Undergrad A Look at the Naming of Exoplanets

  • adastra
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Graduate Determining the Argument of the Perihelion of the Earth: Which Value is Correct?

  • Philosophaie
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Undergrad Are they moving faster than light?

  • Desiree
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Undergrad A Layman's Question of the Big Bang

  • sgitlin
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Graduate The Time Evolution of an Infinite 3D Grid of Mass Particles

  • jonmtkisco
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Graduate Could the Big Bang Theory Be Incorrect?

  • Relena
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Graduate The Origin of the Universe: Unraveling the Mystery of the Big Bang

  • Jordan Joab
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Graduate Deriving the Chandrasekhar Limit on a Napkin

  • FunkyDwarf
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Graduate Beyond Big Bang gets a bit more visible

  • marcus
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High School Is the Moon Really Bigger on the Horizon? A Closer Look at the Optical Illusion

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Graduate Astronomical influence on climate

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Undergrad Please tell me if im imagining this correctly.

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Undergrad Absorb all sort of matter and radiations and still not releasing out?

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Water Found on Mars: Now to Melt It

  • sanman
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Graduate Unit of Measurement: Arbitrary or Dependent on Physical Laws?

  • Rafterman1
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Graduate Does the Capernican Principle Apply to Pre-Big Bang Models?

  • zankaon
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Graduate Does the universe have infinite mass?

  • yuiop
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Graduate What will happen when the CMB will raise the zero?

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Graduate Keplers Equation: Finding Eccentric Anomaly E

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Is it possible to get someone's Myspace email?

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Graduate Atmospheric Gamma Ray Interactions

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Graduate Do Cosmological Tidal Forces Prove the Expansion of Space?

  • jonmtkisco
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Undergrad Giant Asteroid Flattened Half of Mars, Studies Suggest

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High School Latest Martian Ice News: Scientists Investigate Water Ice on Red Planet

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Graduate Supernovae of Procyon & Capella Systems

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Undergrad Perihelion Pass Dates for Planets - Alex's JS Orrery

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Graduate Dark Energy & ZPE: How Can Wave Fragment Have Frequency?

  • wolram
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What are your thoughts about the Large Hadron Collider?

  • tkitchen
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Undergrad Cosmic Microwave Background and Its Temperature

  • quantumkiko
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Graduate Understanding Hubble's Law: Calculating Recession Velocity and Hubble's Constant

  • thenewmans
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Mars - this is how it went down. (just for fun/argument sake)

  • offtheleft
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Graduate Kustaanheimo-Stiefel transformation ?

  • astronomia84
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Graduate Proof That the Universe is Electrically Neutral

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Graduate Twins stars born at different time

  • lwymarie
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Mars Soil Has Nutrients Capable of Supporting Life

  • sanman
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High School Are All Planets Rotating in the Same Direction, Except Venus and Uranus?

  • Philosophaie
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High School Read in a book that fall in a bh is the sameto go at c

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Graduate Surface brightness profiles: sech^2 fit in mag/arcsec^2 units?

  • mdemone
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Graduate Is the Multiverse a Revolving Landscape of Universes?

  • dkv
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Graduate Does the accelerated Expansion add credibility to Steady State Cosmology?

  • Herbascious J
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Temperature of the surface of a satellite?

  • pixel01
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Commercial Spaceflight: When Will it be Accessible?

  • 00PS
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Can mankind transcend the fabric of space and time?

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Graduate How Does the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Confirm Neutrino Interactions?

  • WriterMon
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Sky Cut Meaning: Definition & Explanation

  • maverick280857
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Undergrad Type1a supernovae as evidence for an accelerating universe

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Graduate Reconstruction Primordial Fluctuations from Temperature Anisotropy

  • maverick280857
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Graduate Does the coordinates of time cause the uncertainty in the universe?

  • eextreme
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Is this Hanny's Voorwerp or Kermit the Frog in space?

  • Garth
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Graduate Big Bang Singularity: What Prevents Universe from Becoming Black Hole?

  • Alan McDougal
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Graduate Basic physics in remote universe (proton/electron mass ratio)

  • marcus
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High School Pluto belongs to a new category : plutoids

  • pixel01
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Undergrad Can Newton's Law Be Expressed as F=G\rho\rho1\frac{}{} d^{}2?

  • Ignition
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Undergrad Phoenix craft to dig under Mars ice (landing planned 25 May)

  • marcus
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Undergrad How Come Planets Don't Fall Into Stars?

  • NYSportsguy
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Undergrad Gravity Pull: Calculating Time to Impact

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Graduate Comments on the tethered galaxy propblem.

  • yuiop
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Graduate Kinematic GR models of expansion

  • jonmtkisco
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Graduate Gravity's effects on primordial plasma

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Undergrad What Are the Best Forums for Discussing Non-Mainstream Cosmology Theories?

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High School Could ever Pluto slam into Neptune?

  • pixel01
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Undergrad Black holes created the big bang?

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