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Graduate Neutron degenerate matter as dark matter

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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 Hubble Expansion: Moon Orbital Distance & Error Check

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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

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

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Graduate WMAP 2006 - Mainstream model parameters

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Undergrad Pulsars vs. Brown Dwarves & Blue Giants: A Celestial Q&A

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Undergrad What happens when one's gravity attracts the other?

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

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Graduate The art to become special and a bounce

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Graduate (problem) Spherical trigonometry and star declination

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Stargazing Can we see human history through a telescope?

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Graduate Dimensional analysis on Luminosity

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

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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?

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

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

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

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

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Stargazing Magnification of dobsonian telescope

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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

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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 Analemma Visualisation: 3D Graphics & Visualisations

  • Himanshu
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Stargazing Primary mirror for dobsonian telescope

  • josue2503
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Undergrad Graph Right Ascension & Declination on Globe Graph

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

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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?

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

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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

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High School Understanding Life Support Systems

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Graduate Proving Expanding Black Body Problem: A Question

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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude of planets as seen from earth

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Graduate Clarification on Cosmic Expansion

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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

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Graduate Discovering Anomalies: Extra-Galactic Meteor Observed by Russian Scientists"

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Graduate Neutron degeneracy pressure and electron degeneracy pressure

  • CJames
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Undergrad Need Help Creating Moons for Fiction Story

  • Super**Nova
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Undergrad Rotational Forces in Galaxies: Gas & Beyond

  • wolram
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The creation of our solar system?

  • pixel01
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High School Question about infinite space and time

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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

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Graduate Explanation of changing particles within a blackhole

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

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First pictures From Mercury in 30 yrs.

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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 Quick question with regards to self-study

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

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Stargazing Want to run out and buy a better telescope

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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

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

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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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Help finding Kip Thorne web course

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Graduate Antimatter clouds and gamma rays

  • EnumaElish
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Graduate How can simulations help us measure dark energy and its effects on the universe?

  • wolram
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High School Difference between astronomy and cosmology

  • Electrolight
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Graduate Why Invest Billions in LIGO if We're Certain About Gravity Waves?

  • muccasen
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Undergrad Do we observe fast moving objects in the universe?

  • Peter (IMC)
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Undergrad Does dark energy have anything to do with expansion?

  • EnumaElish
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Undergrad SPACE.com: Source of Mysterious Antimatter Found

  • EnumaElish
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Undergrad Mirroring sun with parabolic dish

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Graduate Neutron Star Mass: Understanding the Chandrasekhar Limit

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate How does the Virial Theorem derivation for <K>=-<delta(U)> work?

  • Himanshu
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Graduate What Can We See at the Origin Point of the Big Bang?

  • Don P.
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High School Typical stellar distances of visible stars in the Milky Way

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High School Questions about Zhumell 3x Barlow for 12" Dobsonian Telescope

  • NerfMonkey
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Graduate Can Traveling at the Speed of Light Lead to Time Travel and Other Mysteries?

  • _Mayday_
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Graduate What will happen if GP1 fails to confirm GR and another model is favored?

  • wolram
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Describe the universe in 15 words

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Graduate Beyond the Big Bang (mid-level book, 600 p, August 2008)

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Mars Express Images from ESA's Mars spacecraft

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High School Could I Have Seen the Horsehead?

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Graduate Internal G=1 unit conversion/systems for simulation timestepping

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Graduate What happens to atoms when they enter a black hole?

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