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Undergrad Has the evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration been discussed?

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High School Why Do We See Old Galaxies in Every Direction?

  • stuart100
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High School Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT)

  • lomidrevo
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Undergrad Simple atmospheric question re: Mars

  • Miles Behind
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Undergrad Objects flying over the lunar surface

  • Glenstr
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Stargazing No, the Moon will Not be Pink Tonight

  • russ_watters
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Undergrad To collect all info at the event horizon

  • Chiron69
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High School How hard is it to detect extinct comets?

  • xpell
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High School Meaning of Time / Space axes swapping (for Time)

  • Grinkle
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Undergrad The life cycle of a star and the bell shaped energy emission curve

  • kinchit bihani
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High School Black hole movement with no time......?

  • Psychonuclear
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Undergrad Velocity correction´ formula for the rotation of the Earth

  • Ennio
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Undergrad Solar wind velocity and corrections

  • Ennio
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Undergrad Who was the first to find an initial singularity in GR models of the universe?

  • windy miller
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Undergrad A Puzzle Regarding the Time Between Consecutive March Equinoxes

  • Buzz Bloom
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Insights The Evolution of the Universe, Cosmic Web and Connections

  • Prof Mark R Smith
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Undergrad Can Dark Matter Exist in Higher Dimensions?

  • Negativ3
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Insights Black Holes Are Not Empty Voids

  • Prof Mark R Smith
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Undergrad Uncovering the Truth: Jupiter's Core Revealed as Solid Diamond by Tammy Ma

  • KevinMcHugh
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High School Understanding the Age of Observed Light: A Scientific Perspective

  • FrankC
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Insights Gaia and the Race to Detect More Gravitational Waves

  • Prof Mark R Smith
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Undergrad What Does a Negative Value for the Deceleration Parameter Imply in Cosmology?

  • redtree
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High School Is it possible to see the history of space if it expands faster than light?

  • ramim
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Undergrad Understanding inflationary cosmology

  • windy miller
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High School How much in the past do we see these planets?

  • Dreksler
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Undergrad Is My Basic Understanding of Universe Expansion Correct?

  • Onst
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Undergrad Understanding the property of the Comoving Coordinate

  • Arman777
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Undergrad Comoving Reference Frame in Cosmology

  • Arman777
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Graduate New MOND Simulation: First Galaxy Formation Model in Milgromian Gravity

  • fresh_42
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Undergrad Universal interferometric signatures of a black hole’s photon ring

  • BillTre
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Undergrad Is the Brans-Dicke Vacuum Cosmology Theory Still Relevant?

  • jcap
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High School Can Elon Musk's BFR Project Meet Its Ambitious Timeline for Mars Colonization?

  • gleem
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Undergrad Where exactly is the Hertzsprung Gap?

  • swampwiz
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High School Conjunction Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon - March 18 + or -

  • Tom.G
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High School What Does it Mean When We Say the Universe is 'Flat'?

  • MikeeMiracle
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Undergrad Variations in Sun-Earth distance with a 2000-year cycle?

  • Genava
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery of Lunar Perigee Frequency | 2020 Insights

  • ScottVal
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Undergrad If humamoids lived around a flare red dwarf, would the flare kill them?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Coordinate dependence of recession velocities

  • timmdeeg
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High School Possibility of Another Big Bang?

  • kolleamm
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Undergrad A new space rock to my collection

  • davenn
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High School High school Astrophysics Research Project Suggestions Please

  • miafrasca_
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Undergrad This Wikipedia article about Scholz's Star doesn't make sense

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad How Can the Newtonian Spherical Ball Be in Stable Equilibrium?

  • Weran
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Stargazing Satellite grids around other planets

  • Gear300
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Graduate Elliptical orbit and how seasons would be affected

  • CosmicAdam
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Undergrad Is Big G and Dark Energy Constant Over Time?

  • WhatIsGravity
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Stargazing Is there an official name yet for tau Ceti 'f'?

  • Nik_2213
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Undergrad How do physicists know that an external world exists?

  • fractalzen
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Undergrad Asteroid Response Help: Get Answers to Your Questions Here

  • screamindivr145
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Graduate Inflation and measurement of cosmic bodies

  • Negativ3
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Stargazing So If Something Happened In Space, Say 350 Million Years Ago....

  • TaurusSteve
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Undergrad What is the current understanding of supernova mechanisms in 2020?

  • virgil1612
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Undergrad Why does the Universe have so many galaxies?

  • Maximum7
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Stargazing Convert Light Years to Miles: 5.879e+12 Explanation and Conversion Guide

  • TaurusSteve
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High School Tau neutrino flux in IceCube data

  • Timboo
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Undergrad Tidal forces acting on planet NGTS-10b

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Does the expansion of the Universe heat stars and bodies?

  • Hypatio
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Undergrad Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe

  • Timboo
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Undergrad Ptolemaic Model of the Solar System

  • ZapperZ
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Undergrad In the beginning there was.... a black hole?

  • Warp
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High School If space is transparent how can we not view light from a black hole

  • Hi12
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High School How to calculate the energy released?

  • kinchit bihani
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High School Why are there 4 dots in Einstein rings?

  • Buckethead
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Stargazing M - M as the distance modulus, and a question about the distance ladder

  • CPW
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High School Dark matter that doesn't gravitate?

  • chirhone
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High School How Does Modern Particle Accelerator Energy Density Compare to the Big Bang?

  • jeremyfiennes
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High School I don't understand the evidence or possibility of the Big Bang

  • spacecapitalist
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Stargazing How much brighter is the Sun when viewed from space?

  • ElliotSmith
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Undergrad Is There really a Hubble Tension?

  • Arman777
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Stargazing Is a star's size changed due to gravitational deflection (lensing)?

  • Forreal
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High School Why / How do we feel heat from the sun

  • MikeeMiracle
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Undergrad Understanding the Age of the Universe

  • Zeno Ether
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Undergrad Is there a distinction between angular resolution and angular discrimination?

  • Physics Student 1234
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Undergrad LIGO+Virgo saw something unknown

  • mfb
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High School Why Is There No New Data from LIGO/VIRGO?

  • jimgraber
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High School Are Early Galaxies Indicating a Future Dead Universe?

  • Timboo
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High School Learning to use a Solar Scope with an H alpha filter

  • sophiecentaur
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High School The highest resolution image of the Sun’s surface ever taken

  • lomidrevo
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Undergrad Finite density at the BB preinflation epoch implies a finite universe?

  • King Solomon
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Undergrad Is there an experimental proof that an Earth/Moon barycenter exists?

  • Ron Hargrove
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Undergrad Earth-centered frame with Earth-Sun line fixed

  • PeterDonis
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Undergrad Is the Pressure Inside a Black Hole So Intense That Atoms Cannot Hold Form?

  • Karlox
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High School Other lines of evidence for Dark Energy? (Besides supernova data)

  • Cerenkov
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Graduate Can there be a lawless universe (according to Hawking)?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Questions about the expansion of space on galactic scales

  • KurtLudwig
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Undergrad Viewing Planets or stars from a high altitude

  • Anand Sivaram
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Undergrad Cosmology in Crisis Podcast by LSST Scientists

  • davenn
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High School Why does Jupiter have a stronger gravitational pull than Earth?

  • Wondermine
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Undergrad DDO 68: A Young Galaxy Supporting the Steady State Theory

  • SteadyStater
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Undergrad The solar system and the Coriolis effect

  • Moises
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Undergrad Does the expanding Universe follow Lorentz contraction?

  • Staticboson
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Undergrad Dark Energy as repulsive gravity

  • Staticboson
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Undergrad How to calculate the wavelength of light coming from 1 light year away

  • shantanu23
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High School Could Earth's Atmosphere Survive a Close Gamma Ray Burst?

  • Dinoduck94
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High School Why The Big Bang banged and didn’t collapsed into a black hole?

  • Moon Shine
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Undergrad Is Dark Matter's Gravitational Force Weaker Than Visible Matter's?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Are there upper and lower limits to the inverse square law?

  • KurtLudwig
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Undergrad Finding the Sun's Angle from Longitude, Latitude & Time/Date

  • NotASmurf
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High School Is Dark Energy a Continuous Creation Theory?

  • New Simplicio
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