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Undergrad Measuring the absolute value of the AU

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Graduate Does the Maximum Entropy of a Black Hole Allow for Hawking Radiation?

  • TriTertButoxy
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Graduate The possiblity of a solid planetary disk

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate How to Solve Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov Equations for Neutron Stars?

  • Karliski
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Graduate Mass of Black Holes: Measuring the Unmeasurable?

  • zero12104
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Graduate Why doesn't the universe expand as a sphere?

  • Arithus
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High School When does Cruithne return to Earth's orbit?

  • thenodfather
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High School Earth's Celestial Poles: North and South

  • chill85
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Graduate The Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)

  • Astronuc
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Graduate No HUP, a universe without unknowns?

  • David Burke
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Graduate A question on the rate of time in the Light we observe

  • popfuzz
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Graduate New Nature Paper: Old Ia Supernovae different?

  • George Jones
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Will NASA's Hubble Servicing Mission Save the Telescope?

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Black spot visible in photos of the sun from April 2006

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Graduate Why Can't I Solve This Kepler's Law Problem Correctly?

  • takoma
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Graduate Are Extreme Internal Accelerations Significant in the Inflationary Universe?

  • oldman
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Graduate Is dark matter just an illusion?

  • Mk
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Graduate What Causes a White Dwarf Star to Exceed the Chandra Mass Limit and Explode?

  • Labguy
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Stargazing I want to build my telescope any advice ?

  • ranroun
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High School Astronomy in West LA: Can You Observe with a Telescope?

  • Quaoar
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Undergrad How Big Would A Planet Have To Be To Have Earth's Gravity?

  • SAZAR
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Graduate How can a neutronstar that only consists of neutrons

  • Hymne
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Undergrad Physical properties of objects that orbit each other in the universe

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Graduate Why is HAT-P-1 so much larger than expected?

  • Astronuc
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Can you see orange sunset clouds from space?

  • ncr7
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Graduate Why do double lobed radio galaxies and Seyfert galaxies have similar energy sources?

  • blumfeld0
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Undergrad !Evidence of Star Formation in Molecular Clouds

  • blumfeld0
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Undergrad What if objects go toward each other rather than away

  • Skhandelwal
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Can you photograph a satellite through a telescope with a handheld camera?

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Why do Jupiter's atmospheric bands move at different speeds?

  • argonurbawono
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Graduate Can Light Be Multiply Scattered in the Universe?

  • oldman
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Stargazing Upgrading from small dobsonian to a larger telescope for astrophotography

  • vincentm
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Graduate The cross section of a photon traversing the observable universe

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Supernova 1987a, light, neutrinos, VSL claims

  • danriley
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Graduate New double pulsar testbed for GR and alts.

  • marcus
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Graduate CP violation and element forging

  • Pavel
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Graduate Can gravitational lensing detect dark matter?

  • ham 'n eggs
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Graduate Gravity On Earth Dependant On Distance From Center

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What created the big bang if the big bang created the universe?

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Graduate Just an idea I've been going over.

  • Arithus
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Graduate How Do You See Spectral Lines in Near IR from the Sun?

  • rp895
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Graduate Tiny Blackholes may pervade space

  • vincentm
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High School What was the pole star 9,000-10,000 BC?

  • Myra759
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Graduate Wet planets common (new simulation study by Raymond et al)

  • marcus
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Graduate What Is the Role of Vacuum Fluctuations in the Universe's Origin?

  • RAD4921
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High School Should gas giants count as planets?

  • Aquafire
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Undergrad Sedna must be a planet (at least for now) according to new definition?

  • ACG
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Graduate Superluminal Matter at Two Stages of Big Bang ?

  • berkeman
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How Big is Earth Compared to the Sun?

  • JamesU
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Earth Narrowly Escapes 2006 QM111 Asteroid Flyby

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Graduate Research Project Ideas - Taylor's Brainstorming

  • TmanMrT
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The Astronomy Peer Review Process

  • VikingF
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Graduate How do dark energy candidates like quintessence differ from the cosmological constant?

  • Jan Janssens
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Interested in The Sky at Night webcasts?

  • Kurdt
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Will a Satellite Crash into the Moon Tonight?

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Why does higher density of the early universe result in a faster expansion rate?

  • lwymarie
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Graduate How Does Precession Relate to Hindu Scriptures and Ancient Astronomy?

  • navneet1990
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Graduate What evidence supports the Big Bang theory beyond galactic redshift?

  • Neohaven
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Graduate Arrow of Time Forbids a Positive Cosmological Constant

  • marcus
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Graduate Why don't Saturn's rings condense into a moon?

  • FeynmanMH42
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Undergrad How close can planets safely exist from each other?

  • ghost77
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High School Do All Planets Have Moons and How Did They Form?

  • ghost77
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High School Is Space Just a Magnified Illusion of a Fluid Universe?

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Graduate Can the Universe Be Understood as a Two-Dimensional Model?

  • Futobingoro
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Graduate Is Infinity Possible? A Discussion on Hawking's Theories of the Universe

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Rare Astronomical Event Observed for the First Time

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Popular Cosmology Books - Which to Buy or Not?

  • wolram
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Graduate Wolfgang Priester forsaw Big Bounce cosmology

  • marcus
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High School Why Is Pluto No Longer Considered a Planet?

  • poppop24
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Graduate Could Quasar Activity Explain the Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies?

  • FeynmanMH42
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Graduate Was the Singularity Rotating at the Time of the Big Bang?

  • jowjowman
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High School Why don't we feel Earth's motion around its axis, sun and galaxy?

  • mistersmith
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High School Mars Closest Encounter With Earth

  • bioginz
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Undergrad Universe could be Bigger and Older - Move over 13.7 Gy

  • neutrino
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Graduate Could ordinary matter account for dark matter instead of exotic particles?

  • oldman
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Graduate Investigating an Unknown Hypothesis on Gravity Unequality

  • Werg22
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Undergrad Scaling limiting magnitude from 16-inch to 12-inch telescope

  • big man
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Graduate Locacal coordinate system in GR observed?

  • hurk4
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Undergrad IAU 2006 definition of a planet: Pluto reclassified as dwarf planet

  • Ouabache
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Undergrad Brightness of Mars as observed from earth

  • lebbo
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High School How can stars burn without oxygen in space?

  • MRCHEM
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Undergrad The moon moves in a near-circular orbit around earth

  • lebbo
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High School Measuring in Space: How Sensors Work in the Cosmos

  • japam
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Undergrad Why are Ceres and dwarf planets excluded from the IAU definition?

  • scott1
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Undergrad Velocity of a ball falling through Earth's center

  • DaveC426913
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Call them DOLPHINS (not dwarf planets )

  • marcus
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High School Only earth orbits in a circular motion?

  • vtas25
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High School What Truly Defines a Vacuum?

  • Swapnil
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Graduate How metallicity evolution in Type Ia supernovae affects cosmological parameters

  • wolram
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Graduate Why is our universe the way it is?

  • fedorfan
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Graduate Why Does Light Bend Around Massive Objects?

  • Cyclotron
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Graduate Planck black-box radiation and the universe

  • hurk4
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High School What is the red circle near the moon phenomenon?

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Deriving Friedmann Equation from RW Metric - Blumfeld

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate Solution to the lithium discrepancy

  • EL
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Graduate What are the Origins and Characteristics of Cosmic Neutrinos?

  • Orion1
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Graduate Expanding universe and Conservation of energy.

  • Alistair
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Undergrad Doppler Effect and the Expanding Universe

  • prochatz
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Graduate Is the law of non-contradiction universal across all possible universes?

  • vinter
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Graduate Drake Equation: Parameters, Missed Factors & Technical Limits

  • toph
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