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Stargazing Finding the Perfect Telescope for First-Time Buyers

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Stargazing Why Do Telescopes Have Long Focal Lengths?

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Graduate Can Particle-Antiparticle Pairs Form Stable Unions?

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Graduate Radiative transfer to space affected by atmosphere?

  • Mapes
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Graduate Cosmological relativity theories

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Star Threatens Earth: Is it Real?

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Undergrad Measuring Distance: How Far Are Stars?

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Appearance of the lakes on Titan

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High School Gravity Anomaly: What Could Be Causing It?

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Graduate Is There a Gravitational Spectrum for Measuring Wavelengths?

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Graduate Can Information Really Be Lost in Black Holes and Our Minds?

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Graduate Can an observer entering a black hole reach the end of time?

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Who Can Help Me Customize My New MySpace Page?

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Graduate Is the Drake Equation Still Relevant in Today's Rapidly Advancing Technology?

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Graduate Carbon dust mistaken for Dark Energy all this time?

  • SF
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Undergrad Would you expect comets to follow the ecliptic? Explain.

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Graduate Birth of Planetary Systems: Starless Possible?

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Undergrad Where Can I Find the Radial Velocity of the Sun Relative to Earth?

  • Archduke
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Undergrad Galactic Structure: Do Astrophysicists See Stars Where They Are Now?

  • TShock
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Graduate Gravity as consequence of universe expansion

  • Blade Runner
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Undergrad Unveiling the Mystery: The Birth of Stars and the Role of Nuclear Fusion

  • TShock
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Graduate Pioneer Anomaly: Unravelling Physics' Mysteries

  • Ivan Seeking
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GRAVITAS GRAVITAS: Portraits of a Universe in Motion - Freely Available

  • shalayka
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Graduate Trajectory of a Test Particle in a Semidetached Binary

  • M87
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Undergrad Do Planets' Magnetic Fields Depend on Their Composition?

  • CaptainQuasar
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Graduate Can objects in space appear to move backwards in time?

  • Matthieu
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Undergrad Rotation period vs. mass of planets in solar system

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Graduate Can Negative Energy Keep Wormholes Open in the Theory of Inflation?

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Undergrad What caused the cooling of the universe?

  • Alex48674
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Undergrad Sun rotation difference (equator/latitude/pole)?

  • drewterry
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Graduate Fecund Universe Theory: How Different Are Baby Universes?

  • hammertime
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Undergrad Earth's Orbit Change: Impact on Life - Will We Die?

  • night_stroller
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Graduate What is the Wavelength of Hawking Radiation?

  • Orion1
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Graduate How Do You Convert Monochromatic Flux Between Wavelength and Frequency Units?

  • jeebs
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Undergrad Would Two Identical Planets Opposite Each Other Coalesce Over Time?

  • pixel01
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Stargazing How to Buy a Telescope for Under $150?

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High School Why does anything with mass have it's own gravitational field?

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Graduate Quantum Cosmology Evidence: String, Brane & LQC

  • wolram
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Graduate Can Black Holes Explode Back into Normal Matter After Evaporation?

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Graduate How does black hole evaporation end?

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Graduate Stellar Evolution: Pathways & Perturbations

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Graduate The Boltzmann distribution of uniformly spaced energy levels

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Graduate Giant ropes of dark matter found in new sky survey

  • SF
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Graduate What is the maximum gravity gradient a human can tolerate near a black hole?

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High School Stars twinkle, but planets don't?

  • fatty
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High School What is the difference between cosmology and astrophysics

  • danzi
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Stargazing Total eclipse of the moon tonight.

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Stargazing Catching the Eclipse Last Night: A Tale of Cold and Clear Skies

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High School What causes gravity? Is it mass or weight?

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Undergrad Can Gravity Really Repel? Understanding Gravitons and Common Misconceptions

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Shooting the moon. did i get a space station?

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Graduate How Does Solid Hydrogen Influence Astrophysics?

  • jal
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Graduate What are the mysteries of the Big Bang and the universe's expansion?

  • thinkies
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Graduate Are Singularities in the Universe Possible?

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High School Research Help: Get Info on 9 Planets

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Graduate The spectrum of reflected light from a planet question.

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Graduate Redshift Issues: Understanding the Light-Metric Coupling in Cosmology

  • Emreth
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Graduate Hubble expansion inside a contracting supercluster

  • jonmtkisco
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High School Ultimate fate of ISS (International Space Station)

  • sysreset
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Undergrad What Would Happen if Earth and a Black Hole Interacted?

  • pchalla90
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Undergrad The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was

  • SF
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Undergrad Protecting Craft from Solar Wind: How Far Does Our Magnetic Field Reach?

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Graduate What causes the universe to eventually colapse?

  • Alex48674
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Graduate Can Higgs Particles Cause Universe Expansion Due to Negative Density?

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Undergrad Human in outer space without space suit

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Graduate Dark matter and the Standard Model

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Undergrad Is Dark Matter Just Unseen Molecules?

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Graduate A few questions =] (time and big bang)

  • Alex48674
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Graduate How Can Astrophysicists Be Rescued from Mars Using Special Relativity?

  • Veratule
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Graduate Dark energy a furphy, says new paper

  • SF
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Is Big Bang the Funniest Show Ever?

  • razerfish
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Graduate SETI: What would it take to monitor all probable bands.

  • Taremos
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High School Mastering Optical Depth: Simplifying the Concept for Beginners

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How Can We Improve Our Community Together?

  • Nickelodeon
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Graduate What Happens to Matter Before a Black Hole Collapses?

  • japam
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Graduate Galaxy from 700 million year old universe

  • marcus
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Undergrad What is Vacuum Energy & How Does It Exist?

  • Alex48674
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Graduate Could the Universe Have Expanded Immediately After the Big Bang?

  • shemszot
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Undergrad Travelling more than Speed of light

  • Habeeb03
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Is Humanity Truly Unique in the Universe?

  • Aftermarth
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Do You Believe in the Big Rip Theory?

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Graduate Is dark matter essential for understanding galaxy interactions in clusters?

  • twinsen
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Undergrad Is there any proof that big bang actually happened ?

  • Google_Spider
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Graduate Understanding Schwarzschild Radius Formula & Escape Velocity Calculation

  • Abbas Sherif
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Graduate What is the radial density distribution of a neutron star?

  • K.J.Healey
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Graduate Are there cosmological models in which Planck's constant varies?

  • Peter Morgan
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Graduate Does Our Velocity Relative to the Black Hole Affect the Passage of Time?

  • W3pcq
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Graduate Is the Cosmological Arrow of Time Linked to the Thermodynamic Arrow of Time?

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Undergrad Understanding Wavelength, Energy, & Temperature

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Graduate Measuring Red Shift to Confirm Hubble Flow

  • wolram
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Graduate Planck energy is a max, is there a mimimum too?

  • hurk4
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Graduate How to set moon free of its orbit

  • yasar1967
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Graduate Planets & Moons Orbit: Earth, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, etc.

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High School Is the Universe Expanding or Are Galaxies Just Moving Apart?

  • gabrielh
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Graduate Solving Orbital Plane Alignment of Two Planets

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Graduate Are Alternative Explanations for Dark Matter Being Overlooked?

  • Mephisto
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Undergrad Can Gamma Rays Reveal Their Source?

  • wolram
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Graduate What Is the Universe Expanding Into?

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Undergrad Estimating Photon Escape Time from Center of Sun

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Graduate Cosmological constant as a fluid

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