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Graduate Negative Acceleration in Black Holes
- humuus
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Graduate The fuzzball proposal for black holes
- wolram
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Graduate Visualizations without space-time or light
- wawens
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Graduate Angular momentum of an oblate spheroid
- stevebd1
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Graduate Hawking radiation & Information loss
- spidey
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Graduate Beckenstein Bound: Understanding Smolin's Entropy Bounds
- Coin
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High School A question about the evidence for the age of our known universe
- jfrancis
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Graduate Has anyone rebutted E. Lester Smith's Intelligence Came First theory?
- asterias
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Graduate At the April APS meeting: curing cosmic singularities
- marcus
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Undergrad What Are the Key Insights into Dark Energy for Cosmology Students?
- Jared37
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Graduate Rotational kinetic energy and gravity
- stevebd1
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Graduate How Do Black Hole Masses Compare to Normal Matter in the Universe?
- CosmiCarl
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Undergrad What Keeps the Galaxy Intact?
- Peralta_Man
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Largest Known Star: Introducing Myself and Cosmology
- Star-Gazer
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Graduate Who the top quantum cosmology researchers are
- marcus
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Graduate Titius-Bode law, any analytical or numerical derivation?
- Ulysees
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Graduate Relativity or Relativistic Theromdynamics
- hagopbul
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Graduate How Does Solid Hydrogen Impact Our Understanding of Cosmology?
- jal
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Undergrad Human versus robotic spaceflight
- D H
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Graduate What Is the Orbital Period of an Asteroid with a Temperature of 200 K?
- rodrigues
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Graduate Discovering the Solar Corona Luminosity Curve: Explained and Explored
- Eleftheria
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Undergrad Universe burnout-What's so hard about that
- Capernicus
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High School Thank you for your understanding.Dr. Gregory GreenmanPhysicist
- sudhirking
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Graduate Escaping the Impending Heat Death of the Universe: A Possibility or a Fantasy?
- hammertime
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Graduate Is There a Contradiction Between Entropy in Thermodynamics and Cosmology?
- josephpalazzo
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Just one irrefutable datum point
- wolram
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Graduate What Lies Beyond Our Universe? Physicists' Opinions
- lionell
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Graduate Universe doesn't equal Time travel
- runicle
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Undergrad What would happen to Earth without the moon?
- Ulysees
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High School Why Don't We Feel Earth's Movement and How Do Tides Affect Well Water Levels?
- mnhtapu
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Undergrad Gamma Ray burst in the Milkey Way
- talmans
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High School Rockets in Space: Need for Engines to Change Direction
- Ry122
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Graduate Snowplow model of a supernova remnant
- Tuugii
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High School Moon without Earth: What if Earth Disappears?
- Timoothy
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High School Demonstrating Moon's Lack of Internal Rotation
- Timoothy
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Graduate Universal quality of virial theorem
- giann_tee
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High School Finding a Local Star Like Ours: 10-50 LY Radius
- MDW
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Undergrad Cosmology getting stale with discoveries?
- Chaos' lil bro Order
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High School Sun's Energy Output: How Much & What Could it Power?
- Holocene
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Undergrad Why is the Earth getting closer to the sun and the moon getting farther away?
- DM
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Undergrad Naked-Eye Visible GRB: Witnessing Halfway Across All Creation
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad Why don’t planet hunters find black holes?
- jimgraber
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High School Why do we see the near side of the moon only?
- anonymoussome
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Graduate Urban legends in authoritative astronomy
- Ken G
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High School Earth's Closest Approach to the Sun: Does the Date Change?
- Ulysees
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Graduate Can Early Dark Energy Affect Standard Rulers in Cosmology?
- wolram
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What are the limiting factors in this case
- mubashirmansoor
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Undergrad Why Does Earth's Axis Precess Like a Spinning Top?
- Ulysees
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Graduate Is the Entropy of Black Holes Measurable for Non-Exotic Black Holes?
- RasslinGod
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Graduate Good textbooks on modern cosmology ?
- smallphi
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Graduate How Do Interpretations of Hubble Expansion Differ Empirically?
- my_wan
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Graduate Minimum value of g for blackhole
- spidey
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Undergrad Light Entering Black Hole: Observed or Not?
- spidey
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Have You Read Weinberg's Cosmology Yet?
- superpoincare
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Undergrad How Are Black Holes Detected and Measured?
- shaan_aragorn
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Alternative idea on expanding universe
- W3pcq
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Undergrad Dark Matter & Universe Expansion: A Newbie Question
- viridian
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Undergrad Relation between earth position in orbit and its tilt
- pixel01
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Graduate Is There a Universal Point Where All Moments in Time Exist Simultaneously?
- zengin
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Graduate Possible webpage title: Need Help with These Astronomy Questions?
- SilverHammer
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High School Newbie question on atsrophotography
- Holocene
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Graduate Is the Secret Number to the Universe 10^122?
- SF
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High School A Beginner's Guide to Learning About Black Holes
- Owen-
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Graduate Estim. dark energy up by 3 percentage points. Any reaction?
- marcus
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Graduate Gravity for a stellar black hole
- stevebd1
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Undergrad Can two stars have the same apparent but different absolute magnitudes
- bse
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Graduate Superbubbles from shock waves from supernova or stellar winds?
- sarahrose
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Undergrad Earth/solar position vs spiral arms
- ray b
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Graduate Meaning of setting the scale factor equal to 1 at present epoch
- kdv
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High School Moon Preservation: What if a Spaceshuttle or Missile Hit It?
- h.g.Whiz
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In the Beginning: How Many Object to Creation-Like Events?
- Chronos
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Undergrad What Material Makes Up Black Holes?
- pixel01
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Astronomy Videos: Collection by NGC6822 on YouTube
- drosser
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Anybody know anything about parallelogram mounts
- Saladsamurai
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Undergrad . Radio Spectroscopy -> Finding the doppler shift in a graph
- PhysicsHelp12
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Graduate Question from a fool about the big bang
- zengin
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Undergrad Just a simple explanation please
- hedkrash
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Graduate Tired light vs. expanding universe
- ntdg634
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Undergrad Equatorial Bulge: Causes & Explanation
- Sheneron
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Graduate Is Cosmological Inflation the reason for the uniformity of the universe?
- Dav333
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Graduate Massless Universe: Examining the Behaviour & Mass of Our Universe
- Xbehave
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Graduate A question regarding the orbit of material in a galaxy such as ours
- shalayka
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Undergrad Can two planets inhabit the same orbit?
- astro1000000
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An astrophysicist (+blogger) to be aware of
- marcus
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Undergrad Just Checking - Calculating Angular Diameter of Moon
- TFM
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Graduate Can there be anything outside of our Existance?
- Blahness
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Graduate Measuring the temperature of quasars
- Frank Lampard
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Undergrad Calculating Absolute Magnitude of a Star - Red's Help
- redbaldyhead
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Graduate Could Dark Matter be mass in EM fields?
- warwickphys
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Solve Your HR Diagram Problem with Expert Help - Tuugii
- Tuugii
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Graduate Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe (survey)
- marcus
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Undergrad Advantage of measuring stellar parallaxes from Mars rather than Earth?
- bse
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Graduate Dark Matter Pooling: Gravitational Effects Explained
- nesp
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Graduate Acceptable cosmological discussions
- CBC
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Support Space Exploration: Agree or Not?
- wolram
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Graduate If blackholes, then antiblackholes?
- pseudo
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How do i find a Astronomy club close to me ?
- mouse23432
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Undergrad Is the Universe Spinning After the Big Bang?
- Hool
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Undergrad Satellite Right Acension and Declination Calculations
- isi
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Undergrad Are matter and energy equally represented
- crazylum
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