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Graduate Dark Energy's effect on the curvature of space time

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Undergrad Neutron star: heaviest teaspoon of matter

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Graduate What defines strong vs weak orbital resonances?

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Graduate Does Gravity Violate the Cosmo Speed Limit?

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Graduate Will the universe end in a Big Crunch or a Big Rip?

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Graduate How Does Black Hole Entropy Increase When Starting with a Pure State?

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Undergrad Interest in blackholes and whiteholes

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Graduate Is the Holographic Universe Theory Still a Valid Concept?

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Stargazing Finding Equations for Sun's Eclipse Periodicity

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Graduate What are the main problems with mainstream cosmological theories?

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Graduate Measuring cosmic mass using the maximum areal radius

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Graduate An HST Program for the Luminosity Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae

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Undergrad Why do galaxies form spiral structures instead of radiating from the Big Bang?

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High School How close is 18 Scorpii, the other solar twin?

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Graduate Five star luminosity, lifetime, distance and magnitude problems

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Fell into the black hole that is myspace

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Graduate New Satellite Data On Universe's First Trillionth Second

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Graduate Inflation is the rapid acceration of space some time after the BB

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High School Speed of Objects in Space - Is It the Same as On Earth?

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Undergrad Likelyhood of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Undergrad Aitoff projection of constellations in galactic coordinates

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Undergrad Orbit of almost 1 eccentricity

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High School The Earth, Moon and Sun's gavity game.

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Graduate Is dark matter a perfect black body and can we study it with physics tools?

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High School Is the Universe Larger and Denser Than We Imagine?

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High School Can a moon have its own moon?

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Graduate Radiation in a Closed/Finite Universe?

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Undergrad Does the solar system cross the galactic plane in a regular cycle?

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High School Is Seeing a Black Hole Possible?

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High School The moon doesn`t rotate around it`s axis.

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Undergrad Are Images of Space Distorted by Gravity?

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Graduate Redshift > 1.46 means Recessional Velocity over C?

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Undergrad Is the Vacuum Between Water Molecules the Same as Cosmic Space?

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Graduate What are the fundamental constants that govern the properties of our universe?

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Graduate Planetary retention of atmospheres

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Graduate What is the highest redshift object ever observed in the universe?

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Graduate First stars now thought to be 400 MLY after BB?

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Undergrad Universe Q: How Far Away Are Objects Seen?

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Graduate Understanding Universe Expansion & String Theory

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Undergrad Why does the vernal equinox date vary between March 20 and 22?

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Undergrad Do Other Planets Have Radiation Belts Like Earth?

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Graduate Is the Quasar in NGC 7319 Really Inside the Galaxy?

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Graduate Empty Nest - possible or not possible aspect of Big Bang?

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Undergrad Characteristics of globular clusters

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Shoreline on Saturn's Moon Titan - Yahoo News

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Graduate Compute Tidal Locking Radius: Planet/Moon Area

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Graduate Universal Regeneration: Is Expansion Recycled?

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Graduate How universal are the laws of physics?

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Graduate Cosmological Event Horizon during Inflation

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Graduate How to calculate current distances of galaxies accounting for expansion

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Graduate WMAP three-year data shows Omega parameter near 1.04

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Undergrad Expanding Universe: Mass or Space-Time?

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Undergrad Life on Europa? Complex or Simple?

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Graduate Nuclear reactions in AGN accretion disk

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High School What is the farthest star visible by telescope?

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Graduate Dark matter candidates, what chances would you give them?

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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Due to a Hidden Spin?

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Graduate Will the expanding universe eventually make all stars disappear from our sky?

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Graduate Loop Quantum Cosmology dual to Randall-Sundrum Model

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Graduate Is Anything Ever Truly Stationary? A Theoretical Exploration

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Undergrad Do All Spiral Galaxies Rotate in the Same Direction from Earth's Perspective?

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Graduate What is the Anomaly with Sirius B's Data in Astrophysics Calculations?

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High School What is the difference between a nova and a super nova?

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High School How Can I Determine Current Planetary Velocities?

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High School The most intnse solar strom in 50 years

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Undergrad What frequencies do individual galaxies emit?

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Undergrad The Speed of Change: Centripetal Force

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Graduate Tully-Fisher, fundamental plane - what about LSBs, dwarfs, etc?

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Question for astronomers, astrphys.

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Graduate The Search for the Perfect Solar Twin: HD 98618

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Graduate The view from a ring singularity?

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Undergrad Why are Globular Clusters so Metal poor?

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Undergrad What force is stronger, Gravity or Magnetism?

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Graduate Could the Big Bang have been a black hole explosion?

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Undergrad Galactic Merger: What Will Happen When Andromeda Collides with the Milky Way?

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High School What made the scientists to think about Antimatter

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Water found somewhere beyond Earth

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Graduate Calculating Bolometric Correction for Cepheid Variables

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Graduate Population III detected at last?

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Graduate What is Dark Energy and Why is it a Mystery?

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Graduate Watch out, n00b about Black Holes Question.

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Study proves universe created by committee

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High School Are cosmic rays considered part of the EMS?

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What is the Symbol for "Section"?

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Undergrad How light properties help detect and observe astronomical objects

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Graduate Interpreting the green arc in Spitzer's image of Stephan's Quintet

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Graduate What is Information Theoretic Process Physics and its implications?

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Undergrad Solar celestial position (as function of latt, long, time of day, date, )

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Undergrad How to Calculate the Angle Between Two Celestial Objects?

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Graduate Effects of plasma on friedman/fluid/acceleration equations

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Graduate Is the Universe Losing Energy Due to the Exchange of Photons?

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Graduate How Can Black Holes Defy Einstein's Theory of Gravity?

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Graduate Time Dilation and Black Hole Inflation

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Undergrad Age of The Universe - Time vs Space

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History of star discovery and cataloguing methods

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High School Mission To Pluto Uses Jupiter To Speed Up?

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High School Hubble discovers possible new moons around Pluto

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Graduate Dark matter properties detected using VLT

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