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Undergrad Are craters on the moon randomly distributed?

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Undergrad Does Uranus Have a Distinct Rocky Core?

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Graduate Are Long GRBs caused by PopIII hypernovae?

  • Garth
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I'm Living in the Astronomy Section

  • MadScientist 1000
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Undergrad Are other planets getting hotter like the Earth?

  • verdigris
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Undergrad Quick easy questionFormula for angular diameter?

  • Soylentgreen
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Astonishing Photo of Russian Rocket Booster Explosion!

  • russ_watters
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Graduate New Guth paper-reviewing by-now-familiar scenario

  • marcus
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Undergrad Where Can I Find the Mathematics in Nucleosynthesis?

  • sruthisupriya
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Graduate Time Measurement on Earth vs the Universe

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High School Is the Apophis Asteroid a Serious Threat and What is NASA Doing About It?

  • pixel01
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The smartest man in universe believes in Intelligent Design

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Undergrad Astrophysics Starter Guide | Find the Best Textbooks

  • FUNKER
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Graduate Why do we Still Believe in Newton's Law?

  • wolram
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Stargazing First is the Blue Snowball , a planetary nebula.

  • russ_watters
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Graduate Temperature Effects of a Doubled Radiation Emission from an HII Region

  • Poppop
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Graduate Exploring the Relation between \Gamma and H in the Early Universe

  • Magister
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I know, lets launch a car into space

  • matthyaouw
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High School Really Simple Circumference Question

  • Iritscen
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Undergrad Eclipsing binary problem im really frustrated

  • Soylentgreen
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Graduate : Comparing Radii of Black Hole & Fast Moving Bodies

  • exponent137
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Discover the Incredible Video That Will Make You Wonder

  • ScaleMaster
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Graduate Calculate Total Energy Radiated by Sun During Evolution

  • emilykay
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Graduate How to Determine the Period and Separation of an Eclipsing Binary Star System?

  • Soylentgreen
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Undergrad Having trouble with eclipsing binaries.

  • Soylentgreen
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Undergrad What Are the Current Unsolved Mysteries in Astrophysics?

  • Terilien
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Undergrad How come we can see galaxies 9 B l/y away if universe is only 14 B y/o

  • moe darklight
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Graduate Flatness Problem: Deriving Relation from Friedmann Eqns.

  • Magister
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Graduate Is Energy Fully Conserved in an Expanding Universe?

  • hurk4
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Graduate Cosmological Red Shift: How Does z Change With Time?

  • Magister
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Graduate When does the event horizon form?

  • Flatland
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Graduate Evidence for Dark Matter: Bullet Cluster X-Ray & Weak Lensing Study

  • Chronos
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Graduate UMC Time, Right Ascension and Longitude

  • whatta
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Graduate Atmospheric Refraction: Converting Density Profiles to Refractivity

  • natski
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Detecting transmission signal destinations

  • antistar_
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High School Galaxy Collision: Will Milky Way & Andromeda Pass or Collide?

  • Plasma
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Graduate Tolman Surface Brightness Test -

  • _Andreas
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Undergrad Paradox of the Expanding Universe: Debunking the Big Bang Theory

  • Wellsi
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Undergrad Black Holes in a Newtonian (non-Einsteinian) World

  • Izzhov
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Graduate What are B mode and E mode signals?

  • man@SUT
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Graduate Tolman surface brightness test -

  • _Andreas
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Undergrad Infinite Energy and the Big Bang: Understanding Heat as Energy in Physics

  • elloyd
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Graduate New universes will be born from ours

  • SF
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Undergrad Friendly discussion: How do you feel the singularity came to be?

  • Nexus555
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Stargazing Build Concave Mirrors Up to 1.5M Dia: Design a Grinding/Polishing Machine

  • les trickett
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Public Star Parties: Learn What to Expect at Your First Event

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Graduate GPB: Latest News and Research Results

  • Chronos
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Graduate Calculating Critical Density and Cosmological Constant

  • stevebd1
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Undergrad Is the Conservation of Mass/Energy Challenged by the Big Bang Theory?

  • Robert J. Grave
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Graduate Why is the peak frequency of the Cosmic Microwave Background 160 GHz?

  • Nim
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Graduate Holographic principle responsible for life?

  • Mike2
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Undergrad How do we determine what's in the core of stars/planets?

  • mace2
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Graduate Neutral electron gas in galaxy halo?

  • smm
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Undergrad Uranium and supernovae explosions

  • verdigris
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Graduate Another big numbers coincidence?

  • Juan Casado
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Graduate First 3D Map of Dark Matter in the Universe

  • neutrino
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Graduate Creating a Realistic Virtual Universe: An Astrophysics Problem

  • inbuninbu
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Undergrad Discovering Medieval Cosmology: A Public Health Student's Perspective

  • cherbd16
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Astronomy Olympiad: Questions & Discussion

  • ritwik06
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Energy and matter Is that all that fills our universe?

  • Rodney Flores
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Undergrad Are hotter stars always brighter?

  • whatta
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Graduate Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 (Mather and Smoot)

  • robphy
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Undergrad The speed of light and the expansion of the universe

  • Robert J. Grave
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Graduate Is Our Consciousness Immortal Through Multiple Universes?

  • michael879
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Graduate Equation for Solid Planet Structure

  • Helios
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High School Round trip to earth in a straight line?

  • kasse
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Graduate Is the Hyperboloid Model Truly Homogeneous and Isotropic?

  • quantum123
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What is the identity of the enigmatic I in this timeless puzzle?

  • K Sengupta
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Undergrad How do we really know the universe is expanding?

  • cdm1a23
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High School Sun's Polar Shift on 2012 coincidence?

  • TheMuses
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Graduate Multiverse theory, where are they?

  • blumfeld0
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High School Star Density Should be a piece of cake

  • gothicpie
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Graduate Can Any Theory Unify Wave/Particle, Space/Time, and Energy/Mass Dualities?

  • jrrship
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Undergrad Critical Density: What is the Energy Density of the Universe?

  • Olivia Grace
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High School Birght comets like Comet McNaught

  • pivoxa15
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Undergrad Experiment with multiple instrument places all over the earth

  • ritwik06
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Undergrad Calculating Solar Constant at Sunset: How Much Energy Will Be Received?

  • ritwik06
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Graduate Best fit three-sphere radius 130 gly (after Ned Wright)

  • marcus
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High School Parallax Questions: Confirm Answers are Right?

  • pianoparadise
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Graduate What are some good reference materials for my dark matter presentation?

  • Aschere
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Undergrad Does Andromeda contain dark matter?

  • quantum123
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Undergrad Space Wars: US Plans for Dominance and Monopolization

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Graduate Inflationary vacuum and the true vacuum

  • emanaly
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Graduate Light/ universe questions from a layman

  • orzos
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Graduate Two identcal spiral galaxies A and B w/ equal & opposite momenta merge

  • ritwik06
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Explore the Universe with an Astrophysics Simulator - Download Now!

  • Prof_Atis
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Graduate Is the Universe Really Expanding?

  • SpaceTiger
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Graduate FRW from spaces of constant cuvature

  • Mike2
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Graduate Anyone Else Deep in Cosmology Code?

  • Allday
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Comet McNaught: The Brightest in History?

  • russ_watters
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Graduate Question concerning the universe & the Hubble photos

  • Nexus555
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High School How Long Does It Take To Orbit Our Galaxy

  • osirisisis
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Undergrad Is a Sunshade the Solution for Earth's Drought and Heat?

  • nantz
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Undergrad Red Shifts and the expanding universe

  • WendyE
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High School Discover Earth's Orbital Velocities at Perihelion and Aphelion

  • cscott
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Graduate Explaining the structure of Galaxy Filaments

  • kmarinas86
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Graduate Is a Planet-Dissolving Chaos Cloud Really Headed Towards Earth?

  • The Rev
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Undergrad AIG Answers in Genesis: Challenging the Big Bang Theory

  • Nooj
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High School Why Does a Planet Rotate and What Factors Influence Its Angle of Rotation?

  • ninad
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High School What's the farthest distance a star visible to the naked eye can still be seen?

  • eehiram
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