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Graduate Does Dust Scattering Alter the Cosmic Background Radiation Spectrum at z < 100?

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Undergrad How to Calculate the Flattening of a Rotating Planet?

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Graduate Can we use our own Sun to travel through space?

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Is cosmology an extension of creation science?

  • W3pcq
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Graduate Interpreting the Expansion of the Universe: Matter vs. Spacetime?

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To scale animation of solar system

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Undergrad Why are we still looking at Mars?

  • Snazzy
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Official version of Big Bang 2008

  • jal
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High School Is the earth the centre of the solar system?

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Graduate Island universe eventually true?

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Graduate Does a black hole have a temperature profile?

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Graduate Universal Expansion: Is Gravity Limited?

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Graduate WMAP cold spot and void in the universe

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Where to Find Free Astrophysics Books Online?

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Graduate What's the fastest space pulls apart from itself?

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What is the Intriguing Theory of Null Physics?

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High School Why do the sun and moon look bigger when rising and setting?

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Graduate Applying the Virial Theorem to Stellar winds

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Graduate How Do Astrophysicists Measure Solar Mass Loss?

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High School Understanding Spectral Index: A Plain Explanation

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Undergrad Artificial Gravity: Sci-Fi Possibility & Effects

  • Tachyonie
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Graduate Evidence for the Inflationary Period?

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Graduate Does the Cosmic Background Radiation Provide an Absolute Frame of Reference?

  • shelanachium
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Graduate Why Isn't Dark Energy Considered a Fundamental Force?

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Graduate Logical Positivism versus Cosmology

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Graduate Gravitationally bound, ionized cloud of hydrogen

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Cauchy horizon in a Kerr rotating black hole

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Undergrad Viewing size of Galaxies 7 Billion light years away?

  • Remo Aviron
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Graduate Hardness of Neutronium: Estimating Magnitude

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Graduate Ray of light travelling through universe (applying cosmological principle)

  • keks
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Graduate Is the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe Caused by Energy Conversion?

  • Jackrell
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Undergrad Calculating Fuel Needed for Geosynchronous Orbit

  • Inquiring_Mike
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Graduate Baryon Asymmetry: Why is Matter More Abundant?

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High School How Long Does it Take the Moon to Orbit the Earth?

  • hashshashin71
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Graduate Is the concept of a creator necessary if the universe has always existed?

  • Dertulm01
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Undergrad Early Warning against Killer -Asteroids - current state, ideas

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Graduate Void expansion rate and cosmic acceleration.

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Undergrad What is the Significance of a Secular Timescale?

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Graduate Will dark energy overcome dark matter?

  • hobobobo
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Graduate Dark Matter Detection: Earth's Orbit and Its Interactions with the Solar System

  • SF
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Graduate Question regarding about Ωbaryonic/DM/DE

  • hobobobo
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Graduate Is There Really No Edge to Space, Only an Edge to Time?

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Graduate Congratulations to all the PF gurus

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Graduate A Theory on the possible fate of the universe

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Graduate Black holes, frame dragging and the effect on gravity

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Graduate What would happen to time if all movement were parallel?

  • Loren Booda
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Apophis Strikes Earth: Odds still 1 in 45,000

  • Brad_Ad23
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Undergrad How to find data on Earth, planets, motions

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Graduate What Are the Different Horizons and Distance Scales in Cosmology?

  • hobobobo
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Undergrad Is the Root 2 Relationship Valid for Orbital Mechanics on the Moon?

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Undergrad Hubble's Discovery of Cepheid Variable Stars in Galaxies

  • Holocene
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Undergrad How Do Scientists Measure Distance Using Standard Candles?

  • hobobobo
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Graduate The Rotation of the Universe: A New Perspective on Cosmic Expansion

  • wolram
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Undergrad Ratio between Semi major and Velocity

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Undergrad Rotational Motion of Celestial Body

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Undergrad Apophis to impact earth in 2036?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate The Void Phenomenon Explained (Tinker Conroy, computer sims)

  • marcus
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Graduate I Know Why We Will Never Come Across A Wormhole

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Graduate What Happens to Time and Space at the Event Horizon of a Black Hole?

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Graduate Loeb's perspective on emergence of structure

  • marcus
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Graduate Do Laws of Physics Break Beyond the Event Horizon in Kerr Black Holes?

  • spidey
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Undergrad Torque caused by/due to a galaxy's spin

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Graduate How Does Hubble's Constant Relate to Universe Inflation and Horizon Changes?

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Graduate Inflation & the Speed of Light: Is It Possible?

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Graduate What Happens to Infalling Matter as a Black Hole Evaporates?

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High School What Causes Multi-Colored Stars to Twinkle in the Night Sky?

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Graduate Synchronous Moon Stability: Conditions & Twin Planet Distance

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Undergrad Will a Toy Top Keep Spinning in Space?

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Undergrad Orbiting space station is observed to remain always vertically above

  • Ed Quanta
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Graduate Wien's Law & Earth Emission Spectra: Investigating the discrepancy

  • natski
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Stargazing Telescope alteration (Russ or turbo-1)

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Undergrad Will voyager 1 or 2 pass the heliopause

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Graduate Gravitational attraction of bodies

  • Nabeshin
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Graduate So you discover the dark matter particle Now what?

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Graduate Is expansion only a factor in empty space?

  • Tbeer
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Graduate Artificial Stars: Dream or Possibility?

  • Antonio Jimenez
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Graduate Light-Years, Horizons & the Age of the Universe

  • CosmiCarl
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Graduate Are TOEs Ignoring the Complexity of Animate Matter?

  • Jackrell
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High School Are Cosmic Rays Just Electromagnetic Rays from Space?

  • cowah22
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Graduate Faster than light expansion speeds are standard

  • marcus
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Undergrad Big Bang & Universal Speed Limit: Is Light the Limit?

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Graduate Stability of cosmological models

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High School The Earth and its orbit around the sun

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Graduate Why do we say black holes vanish if their mass decreases with hawking radiation?

  • spidey
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Graduate The Pre-Big Bang Universe: The Origin of Matter and Energy from the Vacuum

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Graduate Curvature of space; curvaure of spacetime

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Undergrad The Big Bang, and where it occured in space.

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Graduate Universe expanded faster than the speed of light?

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Graduate Start from Nothing: An Exploration of Pre BB Thinking

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Graduate Predicting Universe Collapse: Understanding the Forces at Work

  • wolram
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Graduate The End of Cosmology: Is Special Relativity at Odds?

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Graduate How fast does the universe expand and what are the theories behind it?

  • Tachyonie
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Undergrad What is Dark Energy and How Does It Affect the Universe's Expansion?

  • anonymoussome
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High School Are those shooting stars or satellites in the night sky?

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Online Discussion: The End of the World in 2012?

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Graduate Boltzmann Brains: NY Times Article Explained

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Graduate Shape of Black Holes: Clarification Needed

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Graduate Queston On The Theory Of Everything

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Graduate Negative Acceleration in Black Holes

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