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Undergrad Travelling more than Speed of light

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Is humanity the only intelligent life in the universe?

  • Aftermarth
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Do You Believe in the Big Rip Theory?

  • pulsar28
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Graduate Does dark matter affect galaxy movements in clusters and between galaxies?

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

  • Google_Spider
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Graduate Schwarzschild radius formula and escape velocity paradox

  • 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 How does cosmic expansion decrease light's energy and temperature?

  • Alex48674
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Graduate Measuring Red Shift to Confirm Hubble Flow

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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 Why does Earth's moon change orbital nodes while other moons orbit their planet's equator?

  • Super**Nova
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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?

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Undergrad Do gamma rays carry enough information to prove their source?

  • wolram
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Graduate If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

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Undergrad Estimating Photon Escape Time from Center of Sun

  • swickey
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Graduate Cosmological constant as a fluid

  • EDerkatch
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Graduate Neutron degenerate matter as dark matter

  • jal
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Undergrad Creating a Planet of Sky and Clouds: Is it Possible?

  • Nostredame
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Graduate Reconciling the Paradox of Age and Size in a Finite Universe

  • Quincy
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Graduate Does Hubble expansion apply to the Moon's orbital distance?

  • John Richard
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Undergrad Is it possible to create Orbital construction yards for Spaceships?

  • Aftermarth
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Graduate When a supernova occurs is it expected that the gravity wave

  • wolram
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High School Can Low-Cost Methods Be Used to Launch Objects into Orbit?

  • concious
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Graduate WMAP 2006 - Mainstream model parameters

  • Garth
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Undergrad Pulsars vs brown dwarves and M45 blue giants cluster

  • Aftermarth
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Undergrad How did the Moon gain its orbital speed around Earth?

  • yasar1967
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Stargazing What Size and Material Should I Use for My Refractor Telescope Tube?

  • purina
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Graduate The art to become special and a bounce

  • hurk4
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Graduate (problem) Spherical trigonometry and star declination

  • giann_tee
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Stargazing Can we see human history through a telescope?

  • earthling
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Graduate Dimensional analysis on Luminosity

  • BERGXK
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Stargazing Optic Quality and Useful Magnification of the Orion Skyview Pro 6 Telescope

  • yiuscott
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Graduate How Does Heat Transfer Occur in Neutron Stars?

  • physicophile
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Stargazing Can i use a watch glass as a primary mirror of dobsonian telescope?

  • josue2503
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Undergrad Applying Runge-Kutta(RK4) method to planetary velocity

  • StillmatikX
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High School Can Dark Matter and Black Holes be Associated in Earth's Rotation?

  • thinkies
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Graduate Which conserves energy better? Expanding space or Shrinking matter?

  • kmarinas86
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Graduate How Could the Big Bang Avoid Being a Black Hole?

  • darkfall13
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Stargazing Magnification of dobsonian telescope

  • josue2503
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Graduate Calculating Optical Interferometry Telescope Resolution

  • jumpjack
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Undergrad Evidence of the age of the universe

  • W3pcq
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Undergrad The redshift is how far/long ago?

  • shotgun
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Undergrad Rebuttle of Black hole arguments

  • rubecuber
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Graduate Scientists Say Time is Slowing Down

  • SF
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Graduate Black Hole Temperature and Entropy

  • George Jones
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Undergrad 3D visualizations of analemma formation

  • Himanshu
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Stargazing Primary mirror for dobsonian telescope

  • josue2503
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Undergrad How to graph right ascension and declination on a globe

  • Commodore
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Graduate Is the whole Universe expanding, or just the Observable Universe?

  • astrocat
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Graduate Is Part of the Observable Universe Moving Faster Than Light?

  • poeteye
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Graduate Why isn't it possible that gravity is repulsive at long distances?

  • Chronothread
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High School Is Dark Matter a solid, gas or liquid?

  • tycon69
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Graduate Is the cosmological prinicple wrong? Is Big Bang wrong?

  • quantum123
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High School What Is the Time Scale for the Heat Death of the Universe?

  • sadhu
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Undergrad Altitude and Azimuth of the Sun on the Summer Solstice at the Tropic of Cancer

  • Commodore
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Graduate The magnetic field as dark matter

  • kmarinas86
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Graduate Can Two Black Holes Really Collide, Even If They Were Once Stars?

  • wolram
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Graduate Theoretical Resolution of Hubble

  • Space259
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Graduate Final temperature in a de-Sitter universe

  • hellfire
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High School Understanding Life Support Systems

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Graduate Proving Expanding Black Body Problem: A Question

  • zdream8
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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude of planets as seen from earth

  • RiChY
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Graduate Does the Hubble constant describe expansion rate or acceleration?

  • heliocentricprose
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Stargazing Question on Refractor Telescope

  • willingtolearn
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Undergrad Spectral and Luminosity Classification

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High School Stargazing 101: Adjusting for Hemisphere

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Graduate Accelerating Motion in Space: Virtual Particles?

  • Joanna Dark
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Graduate Orbit Semimajor Axis and Eccentricity after increasing V

  • ryank614
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Graduate Extra-galactic meteor observed by Russian scientists

  • neutrino
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Graduate Neutron degeneracy pressure and electron degeneracy pressure

  • CJames
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Undergrad Calculating sidereal months from synodic periods for fictional moons

  • Super**Nova
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Undergrad What makes a galaxy rotate and does it depend on rotational gas?

  • wolram
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The creation of our solar system?

  • pixel01
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High School Books on the infinity of space and nature of time

  • mistersmith
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Undergrad Why 24 hours for right ascension?

  • ivan
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Graduate Traces of ‘Mythical’ Cosmic Strings Found

  • SF
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Graduate LIGO detects no gravitational waves from gamma ray burst

  • SF
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Graduate A Galaxy Beyond Gravity and the Hubble Flow

  • wolram
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Undergrad August 2006 article promoting MOND

  • SF
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Graduate Newbie to this forum with a silly question

  • Matthieu
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Graduate Explanation of changing particles within a blackhole

  • only_huce
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Stargazing How to Make a Parabolic Mirror for a Telescope at Home?

  • josue2503
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First pictures From Mercury in 30 yrs.

  • Janus
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High School What Are the Best References for Exoplanet Data and Information?

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Undergrad The ecliptic planes of the Milky Way and the solar system

  • pixel01
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Undergrad Which mathematics should I study before starting an astrophysics degree?

  • Phalid
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Graduate Is String Theory Consistent with MOND and TeVeS?

  • H.M. Murdock
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Stargazing Want to run out and buy a better telescope

  • Enigma007
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Stargazing Meade 10" Starfinder EQ Telescope - Buy Now on eBay

  • GreenLRan
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High School Questions About Space: Is Travel Circular? Can You Reach Big Bang Light?

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Undergrad Kepler's Law: Error Analysis & Mass of Earth

  • swickey
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Undergrad Why Don't We Feel the Universe's Expansion?

  • Manicwhale
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Undergrad How do i find out how much energy a 20solar M BH would radiate given that

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