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Graduate Big Bang v. Cyclic Universe models

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Graduate Blackholes, Jets and Dark Matter.

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Drawing moon phases - what’s your opinion?

  • wins_shmer
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Undergrad Calculating Semimajor Axis of Meteor Orbit

  • crystalplane
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Is the Tracking Error of the Telescopic Scope Mount a Dealbreaker?

  • Chronos
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Undergrad Gravity and curvature in spacetime

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Graduate Is the Hubble constant, constant?

  • yuiop
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Graduate Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data

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Undergrad Light Bending and Mass: Understanding the Effects of Gravity on Light

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Graduate MOND/MOG vs DM: Deuterium Abundance Constraints

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Undergrad Earth's rotational speed in the past.

  • Dana Dedrick
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Graduate Animation/visualization of galactic rotation rates (dark matter)

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Graduate Why Can't Flows in Phase Space Cross?

  • Eidos
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Graduate Empty universe except for three indentical planets

  • Alan McDougal
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High School Why do we experience seasons on Earth?

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Graduate Explore the Mysteries of Gamma-Ray Astronomy with NASA's GLAST Mission

  • marcus
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Graduate Spacetime diagrams and proper time

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Graduate Is Light Attracted or Converted by Black Holes?

  • marrsal
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Undergrad What Are Quasars? Explained by Hubble Telescope

  • Alan McDougal
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Graduate We are in a Schwarzschild black hole-T or F?

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Graduate Is the Radius of Curvature of the Universe Constant Over Time?

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

  • aniketp
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Graduate Is gravity really a force in the expansion of the universe?

  • Ascending One
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Graduate Video lecture on Loop Quantum Cosmology

  • marcus
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Graduate How Do Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant Influence Universe Expansion?

  • NYSportsguy
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Undergrad What if Mars Had Been Closer and Venus Farther?

  • sanman
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Graduate Ripple deSitter universe-Randono cannonball analog

  • marcus
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Graduate A message from bBeyond the red horizon? or just more epicycles?

  • oldman
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Graduate Mystery of the "Cosmic Blank Spot": A Billion Light Year Void

  • poeteye
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Graduate Gravity and coordinate acceleration

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Graduate Does anyone know how to read these diagrams?

  • chemisttree
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How to solve every physics problem ever and understand the universe

  • Green Zach
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Graduate Positive Curvature: Maximum Area of Equilateral Triangle

  • randa177
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Graduate Calculate how mass creates a curvature in relativity

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Graduate How Relativity say about redshift in terms of curvature?

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Undergrad Solar Radiation AM - Danilo's Question

  • danroa
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Finding a Moon Spectrum Graphic: Can You Help?

  • orubi
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Undergrad Why Syrius in the past was a red star?

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Witness GLAST Launch: Now on Virtual Institute of Astroparticle Physics

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Graduate What do I use to determine rotational speed of solar nebula?

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High School Unveiling the Mysteries of Dust: Composition, Properties and More

  • anonymoussome
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Night Sky Views from the Edge of a Distant Galaxy | Manuel's Perspective

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High School Is Our Solar System Really 2D in Planetary Rotation?

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Graduate Can String Theory Explain Quantum Gravity and Fundamental Constants?

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Graduate Accumulation of Mass in Stellar Formation?

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GLAST scheduled for launch on 3 June

  • marcus
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Stargazing Discover the Wonders of the Night Sky with WorldWide Telescope

  • Daniel Y.
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Graduate Entanglement instead of inflation

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate How Can Black Holes Form and Behave in Our Universe?

  • Tachyonie
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Graduate Derivation of Escape Velocity Inconsistency

  • Michael King
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Graduate There's more starlight than we thought (nearly twice as much)

  • marcus
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Did We Spot the International Space Station from Brockville, Ontario?

  • blimkie.k
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Graduate Szapudi reasons to drop alternatives to dark energy

  • marcus
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Graduate What Are the Challenges and Proposed Solutions for Terraforming Mars?

  • sanman
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Graduate Why Are We Not Constantly Bombarded by Neutrinos from the Stars?

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Undergrad When Will Earth Be Tidelocked To The Sun?

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Graduate Why do stars with masses greater than 1.2M(sun) have convective cores?

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Is Our Universe Contained Inside One Atom?

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Graduate New to the board. Gravity questions

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Graduate Can Singularities Exist if Points in Space Are Finite?

  • djeitnstine
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Graduate Was the Universe Not Perfectly Homogeneous at Photon-Decoupling?

  • Niles
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Graduate Visualizing Astrophysical N-body Systems, John Dubinski

  • shalayka
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Undergrad Understanding Vapor Pressure Laws for Astrophysics

  • ZachWeiner
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Graduate Diminishing Results in Cosmology: Public Interest Fading?

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Undergrad Effects of a decreased rotation veloctiy

  • blimkie.k
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Undergrad What is the Temperature of an Electron?

  • eminent_youtom
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High School What does it mean the number after the stellar class? Magnitude?

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Graduate Can Planets Form Without Stars?

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Undergrad Sun formed on a core of a supernova?

  • kamenjar
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Undergrad Planet formation and star formation

  • TShock
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High School Sun's Mass Loss: How Much Is Lost Annually?

  • Lacero
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Undergrad Gravitation attraction proportioned

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Graduate Refractive index of Martian atmosphere near surface

  • Ex1
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Graduate Graph with Saul and Perlmutter's results

  • Niles
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Graduate Good intro to cyclash universe by Steinhardt

  • marcus
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Graduate Cosmic Accelerators summerschool videos

  • marcus
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Graduate Simulating globular clusters over blackholes with Fortran

  • Benzoate
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Graduate Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics Part 1

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Graduate Is Redshift an Accurate Indicator of the Universe's Expansion Rate?

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High School What is the Difference Between an Open and Closed Universe?

  • _Muddy_
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Graduate Could Variation in Light Speed Explain the Horizon Problem?

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Mars weather forecast: Clear skies, high of -30

  • blimkie.k
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Graduate What Is the Event Horizon Size When All Matter Is Infinitely Packed Together?

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SK15075PEQ3-2- Diameter/Aperture: 150mm- Focal Length: 750mm-

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Graduate Reading my first Astrophys paper

  • ZachWeiner
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Graduate Superwind phase in stellar evolution

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Graduate Is the Pioneer Anomaly Evidence of Slower Movement Than Physics Predicts?

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Graduate Black Hole Questions - Answers to Your Queries

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Undergrad Black holes and magnetic fields?

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Graduate Xray flash warns of supernova explosion

  • marcus
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High School Radio waves are electromagnetic.Right?

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Graduate How Does Dark Matter Influence Our Understanding of Atomic Structure?

  • Jøhn
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Graduate Each planet's angle from it's argument of perihelion

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Newton: Is MOND the Answer to Dark Matter?

  • astrorob
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Graduate Is There Evidence of an Opposite to Black Holes in the Universe?

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Graduate What is the Nature of Dark Matter and How Are Scientists Trying to Discover It?

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New Special Issue: Dark Energy in GRG Journal

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Graduate Cosmological Constant in mks units

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Graduate Questions on mass-to-light ratio

  • Niles
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Undergrad Experience with the program 'Gaussfit'

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