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High School Did supernovae have anything to do with the solar creation?

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Undergrad Is NASA prepared for a potential Mars-impacting asteroid?

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Graduate Noise Removal in Radio Telescope Observations

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Undergrad Was the Dust Cloud Surrounding Proto-Earth Hot or Cold?

  • conan
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High School What would make a star flash red and blue?

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Graduate Can Black Holes Really Rip Apart Atoms and Light?

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Graduate Is it possible for a black hole to eat an entire galaxy?

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Graduate Unveiling the Mysteries of Quasars and their Energetic Emissions

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Graduate If the universe is getting colder, wouldn't this violate the 2nd Law?

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Graduate A Place Where Gravity and Dark Energy Equalize

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Graduate Can gas giants like Jupiter become stars and create a binary solar system?

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Graduate Can black holes absorb at an infinite rate?

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Graduate Big bang and small bang black holes

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Undergrad Why gas giants were created far from the Sun?

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Undergrad The Mysterious Plane of Planetary Orbits

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Graduate An apology and thoughts on the cost of experimental cosmology

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Undergrad Help me im in WAS and i need to know Delta V. .

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MY SPACE website - packed with talentless people?

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Undergrad Gliese 581c/d and their Red Sun?

  • Butch007
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Freakiest things in our solar system

  • conan
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Undergrad Can you help me have a general view on cosmology and astrophysics?

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High School What Did We Find on Titan?

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Stargazing Which Telescope Should a Beginner Buy?

  • yalgaar
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High School Will the Universe Really End Up Filled with Black Holes?

  • pixel01
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Graduate Is There a Definable Centre of the Universe?

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Undergrad How do we overcome the challenges of sending humans to the moon and Mars?

  • yalgaar
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High School Q&A on Orbits: Throwing Balls in Space

  • yalgaar
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Graduate An Introduction to Black Hole Thermodynamics

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Unpacking the Concept of Time: What Do We Really Mean By It?

  • pediejo
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Graduate Do Gravity Waves Contribute to Gravitational Curvature?

  • zankaon
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High School Annoying nitpicking: has the geocentric view of the solar system been refuted?

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Undergrad Best way for a layman to get up to speed on cosmology outside of school

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Graduate Why do we and the entire universe exist?

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Graduate How Did Our Universe Begin: A Cycle of Creation or a New Dimension?

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Graduate Re-Poll: We are in a Schwarzschild black hole-T or F?

  • muccasen
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Graduate Gravity's Effect on Universe Expansion: Dark Energy?

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Undergrad Why Is My Zhumell Dobsonian's Laser Collimator Missing the Secondary Mirror?

  • NerfMonkey
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Undergrad Time and Space: What Came First?

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Graduate What is the average mass a black hole consumes

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Graduate What Can We Expect from the Very Early Universe Meeting at Cambridge?

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Graduate Dark energy and the first law of thermodynamics

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Undergrad Expanding Universe: Empty Space, Gas Mass & Galactic Expansion

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Undergrad Why do gas planets not collapse?

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Graduate Superclusters and Voids - same curvature?

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Graduate Why does time seem to exist only in a forward direction?

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Undergrad Weins Displacement Law: Calculating Max Wavelength & Frequency

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Graduate Why Does Gravitational Time Dilation Decrease With Distance?

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Graduate 2nd law of thermodynamics and the big bang

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Graduate How Could the Universe Be Smaller Than a Proton?

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Graduate Universal Acceleration and Boltzmann Brains

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Graduate Do Black Holes Emit Heat Due to Movement?

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Undergrad Are Black Holes Cold? - Ask an Astrophysicist

  • conan
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Graduate Virtual particles and black holes

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Graduate Can BigBang Happen Without a Vacuum?

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Graduate Kepler's Equation to calculate transfer time

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Undergrad What Would a Nebula Look Like Close Up?

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Graduate Centre of Mass and Cosmic Expansion in 4D Universe

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Graduate That asteroid where's it going?

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Graduate Can Pressure Explain the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?

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High School How do we know the size of these suns?

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Graduate If i had a black hole of 20 solar masses, how much energy would it radiate?

  • rubecuber
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Graduate Milky Way's Two Halos Spin in Opposite Directions

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Graduate How can you find out the amount of hawking radiation a black hole exhibits?

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Undergrad Photon radiation, how does it work?

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Graduate Lambda-CDM model and geometric units

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Stargazing Telescope and astronomy questions

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Undergrad How is Stefan's Constant Used in Understanding Black Hole Radiation?

  • rubecuber
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Undergrad Why Did Only Saturn Develop Magnificent Rings in Our Solar System?

  • pixel01
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Graduate When a star explodes, does the shock wave

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Graduate No Dark Energy: Hubble Constant & Astrophysics

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Undergrad Electric Currents in Planetary Magnetic Fields

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Graduate Cosmology Challenges: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Galaxy Formation

  • wolram
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Undergrad How is the Inflation theory going?

  • Gold Barz
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High School How to calculate the momentum of Pluto?

  • ndirishchick
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Stargazing Negative Refractive Index Telescopes?

  • natski
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Graduate Are high-z SNe Ia data reliable for measuring the evolution of dark energy?

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Undergrad The Big Bang theory, and gravity

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Graduate Gravitational Tendency of Disks & Spheres

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Graduate Temperature of a molecule in a galaxy

  • randa177
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Graduate If gravitons exist, does that mean spacetime is not curved by mass?

  • Meatbot
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High School Gregorian calendar off by 26 seconds a year

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Graduate How Did Cosmic Inflation Shape the 14 Billion Year Journey of the Universe?

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Graduate How do we know the universe isn't collapsing ?

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Undergrad GRBs & Supernova: What's the Connection?

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Undergrad Saturn Rings: Age and Permanent Feature

  • pixel01
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High School Math and Distance: How Far is Pluto from Earth?

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Graduate Is Nothingness the Cause of the Big Bang?

  • Holocene
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Graduate Why Does the Tully-Fisher Relation Change with Different Wavelengths?

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Graduate It all began with an end - New theory on origin and future of the universe

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Undergrad How Can We Study Exoplanets Using the Doppler Effect?

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High School What Is Tidal Locking and Could It Affect Earth's Axis?

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Graduate Mass-to-light-ratio and dark matter in galaxy

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Graduate Is the Universe Expanding Into Nothing?

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Graduate Uploading minds into a simulated universe

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Undergrad Can Saturn Keep Its Ring System If It Moves Close to the Sun?

  • natski
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Graduate Big Bang Theory Self-Contradictory?

  • QuantumMechanic
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Graduate Will wormholes go away (be found to be a quirk of the theory) or. ?

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Graduate Can someone tell me if GP-B has results about GR, one way or the other?

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Undergrad Question about curvature of space

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High School Can a star drift through intergalactic space?

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