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Graduate Are Alternative Explanations for Dark Matter Being Overlooked?
- Mephisto
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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?
- Ulnarian
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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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What Would Happen if the Earth's Axis was Vertical to the Solar System?
- Ulysees
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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
- davo
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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
- deathsfriend
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High School Stargazing 101: Adjusting for Hemisphere
- txlabrat13
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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?
- FUNKER
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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?
- _Mayday_
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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
- rubecuber
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Where to find Kip Thorne's ph237 gravitational waves course
- coolmoss
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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 Differences between astronomy, astrophysics, 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 Source of mysterious antimatter found
- EnumaElish
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Undergrad Mirroring sun with parabolic dish
- DaveC426913
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Graduate Can a neutron star have less mass than 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
- Holocene
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High School Questions about Zhumell 3x Barlow for 12" Dobsonian Telescope
- NerfMonkey
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Graduate Can massive objects travel at light speed and does it enable time travel?
- _Mayday_
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Graduate What if GP1 fails to confirm GR and another model is favored?
- wolram
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Describe the universe in 15 words
- PIT2
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