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Graduate Black Holes & Light: Theory or Fact?

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Graduate Blackholes theory maybe incorrect?

  • vincentm
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High School What Are Some Questions About the Universe That a Newbie May Have?

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Stargazing Buying a telescope any suggestions?

  • Opatik
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Graduate Universe might be older and bigger

  • vincentm
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Graduate Ultimate configuration of a flat universe

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Where Does '13.7 Billion' Come From?

  • Dorje
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Graduate Is Planck's Constant Constant, or Does it Vary Through Spacetime?

  • Pademelon
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What Would Watching TV on the Moon or in Deep Space Look Like?

  • skywolf
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Undergrad Phases of the Moon: Angular Separation Question

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Graduate Collection of known scientists that are beyond the standard model

  • wolram
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Graduate Does the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Apply to Entropy in a Big Crunch?

  • Criticalmass
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Undergrad Final Year Project Ideas: Astronomy with a Celestron Telescope

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Graduate What are the latest exciting results from WMAP's three-year data release?

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Graduate Is the Universe Really Expanding or Just Revolving Around a Central Gravity?

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Graduate Binary Planemos Challenge Traditional Views on Planet and Star Formation

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Barbara Ryden's Cosmology Book: Reviews & Opinions

  • Ratzinger
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Graduate DE & DM BB product or post-BB?

  • CosmologyHobbyist
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Undergrad How Does Weight and Thrust Affect Rocket Acceleration and Velocity?

  • Labguy
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Undergrad Celestron 11" Schmidt Cassegrain: Choosing the Right Model

  • Cyclotron
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Graduate Definition of Volume Limited Sample for Sky Surveys

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Graduate Calculating Solar Core Radius Using Emden's Equation

  • Helios
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High School Are Stars Really Formed by Black Holes?

  • superweirdo
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Graduate Do Cosmologists Truly Understand the Inflaton and Gravitational Fields?

  • oldman
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Undergrad Position of Earth in the Universe

  • Born2Perform
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Graduate How do we detect and study dark matter in our universe?

  • wolram
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Graduate Different laws after a big crunch/big bang

  • pete5383
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Graduate Obscure Questions: Lagrange Points & Life Support

  • star.torturer
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Graduate Is the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe Misunderstood?

  • daniel_i_l
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Graduate What is the purpose of the entire infinite universe?

  • Psykostx
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Time Travel Yeah I know maybe some parallel universe talk too

  • Quantum1332
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery: X-Rays from Black Holes

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate Sachs-Wolfe effect and dark energy

  • Chronos
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High School Imagine to be Pluto's surface, climate and atmosphere?

  • zeus.hellas
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Undergrad How quasars are related to black holes in galaxies?

  • blumfeld0
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Undergrad Big Bang Theory: Can Universe Expand Faster than Light?

  • Dawguard
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Graduate Entropy, information and Omphalos cosmology

  • oldman
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Graduate What Are the Secrets Behind Super Massive Black Holes?

  • superweirdo
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Graduate What Basis Supports the Theory of an Expanding Universe?

  • MeJennifer
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Undergrad Why do Spectroscopic Binaries Have Short Periods?

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate What is the current consensus on 7Li abundances and key research papers?

  • Kea
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Graduate Universe: Infinite Nature & Finite Singularity

  • Jenny
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High School South Delta Aquarid or Perseids?

  • pete5383
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Graduate Observing a Body at z=6: Calculating Photon Requirements

  • wolram
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Graduate Is the curvature of the universe affected by dark energy and if so, how?

  • kmarinas86
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Searching for Visyar Bright Star Catalogue: Help Needed!

  • Soilwork
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Graduate Black holes and the expanding universe

  • oldman
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Is Traveling Essential for Astronomers to Unlock the Universe's Secrets?

  • alias25
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Graduate Planck - stelactic - cosmological black hole symmetry?

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Sudden ceasing of energy generation

  • blumfeld0
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What Are the Key Characteristics of a Spiral Tracer?

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate Question on the expansion of space

  • PhysicsDilettante
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Graduate How Deeply Can We See Into the Sun?

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate No Redshift from Distant Galaxies: Implications for Universe

  • blumfeld0
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Undergrad Fusion of Stars: Time Difference for 0.50 & 1.5 Msolar Stars

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate Thiemann's New Theory: Solving Problem of Time in GR & Cosmology

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Undergrad Gravity on the surface of the Moon

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Graduate Objects faster than light because space is expanding

  • MeJennifer
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Graduate How many M type stars equal the luminosity of one O type star?

  • blumfeld0
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Undergrad If Mars had 25% more mass would its orbit be further or closer to the sun?

  • Thor
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Graduate Theories without the use of cosmological principle.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Knowledge of Time in the Past: Astronomers' Observations

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Graduate Is Every Galaxy the Center of the Universe?

  • Vogue
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High School What is the density of the Sun's surface?

  • DaveC426913
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High School How do these triangular toothpick ion engines lift off the ground?

  • Arian
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Graduate What is the significance of singularity in black hole physics?

  • AMD_K8L
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Why Haven't We Returned to the Moon in Decades?

  • MeJennifer
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Graduate Just read decoding the universe : question

  • revelshade
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Undergrad Does Juggling Follow Kepler's 2nd Law?

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Can the Large Number Coincidence Be Explained by Simple Scaling Laws?

  • wolram
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Graduate The cosmological principle in simple models of the universe

  • Eric England
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Graduate Matter and space-time mutually exclusive?

  • Jonny_trigonometry
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Graduate Open closed flat confused about what universe counts

  • blumfeld0
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Graduate Amount of Matter in the Universe

  • loseyourname
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Undergrad Age of the sun in galactic years

  • Vogue
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High School What Would Happen if We Tried to Pull the Moon Closer to Earth?

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Graduate Is Our Universe Flat or Embedded on a Singularity?

  • Ganzfeld
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Undergrad Anyone in san francisco willing to help?

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Graduate Is there an Age Problem in the Mainstream Model?

  • Garth
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High School Reversal of Venus: Mystery of the Solar System

  • EMAAN
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Graduate Accelerating Universe: Experiments, Acceptance & Implications

  • Chen
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Graduate Strangeness Nuggets to Strangeness Condensation

  • Chronos
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Graduate How Can Scale-Related Mass Transform Our Understanding of Cosmological Problems?

  • wolram
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Graduate Could black holes be the creators of galaxies?

  • ChongFire
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Graduate Hyperbolic structures in the universe

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Experiments that modeled blackholes

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High School What Did Ancient Civilizations Discover About the Universe Before 3000 BC?

  • dansydney
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High School Discovering the Mass of Earth: How Did Scientists First Calculate It?

  • argonurbawono
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A couple of free books to download

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Graduate Cataclysmic Variables spin rates

  • toph
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High School Did the Black Hole in Superman Returns Resemble a Type Ia Supernova?

  • kxtreme
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Graduate Hawking Radiation: Particles, Black Holes & Dark Matter

  • alias25
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Graduate Spawn of black hole thought experiment

  • Instine
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Undergrad How Can We Comprehend the Concept of a Finite Universe?

  • wolram
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Hubble's camera goes into safe mode

  • neutrino
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Graduate What is the cause of coronal loops?

  • Michael Mozina
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Undergrad Photon coming from a far away star is redshifted?

  • Ratzinger
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Graduate How Does a Tiny Dot's Mass Distort Space Time?

  • Intuitive
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Graduate Hubble Recession vs. Moon Recession

  • kmarinas86
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