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Stargazing Can I Take Photos of Saturn and Galaxies with My Meade ETX70 Telescope?

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Graduate Measuring Vorticity in a Rotating Anisotropic Universe

  • wolram
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Undergrad Computer Science in Astronomy: Essential Skills and Applications?

  • Spacias
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Graduate Fine-Tuning from First Principles don't laugh

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High School Why Do Hubble Photos Have Black Squares?

  • uknova
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What's the Latest on Space Elevators?

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Undergrad Venus Synodic Period: Why 72 Degrees Away?

  • darkar
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Graduate Some questions on star evolution

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Astro Phys: Bridging the Gap Between the Man in the Street & Astronomy

  • wolram
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Astrophysical Experiments Under Threat: Funding Cuts Ahead?

  • wolram
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Graduate Why Do Different Planetary Simulation Softwares Show Discrepancies?

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate What happens when two black holes collide?

  • varsha
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Graduate Interstellar Travel: Theorical Force to Stabilize Wormhole

  • lucasm1
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Graduate Could Gamma Radiation Bursts Be Evidence of Superluminal Travel?

  • Jesse_Bonin
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Graduate Does a bounded universe require more dimensions?

  • Vast
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Graduate Can planetoids repair complete fractures?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of "Seed Universes"

  • JBash
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Graduate Is Dark Matter's Temperature the Key to Its Mystery?

  • marcus
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Graduate Understanding the Impact of Increased Universal Expansion Rate

  • porquat
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Graduate Is Lambda a True Force or Just a Distortion of Spacetime Like Gravity?

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Expanding Galaxies: Man Asks Question

  • varsha
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Graduate How Does Dark Matter Affect Orbital Dynamics in the Universe?

  • ubavontuba
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Stargazing Upgrading Telescope Lens: Is it Possible for Meade StarQuest 60AZ-M?

  • vincentm
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High School Why Don't Particles in the Sun's Center Reach Absolute Zero?

  • Thickman
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Graduate Can a Black Hole Self-Destruct?

  • rcgldr
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Graduate Could life exist inside a black hole?

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Graduate Difference between particle horizon and cosmological event horizon?

  • touqra
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Graduate Seeing the edge of an unbounded, closed universe

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Universe be determined by some average per volume temperature ?

  • wolram
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Graduate DM Halo Movement: Predicted vs Observed

  • jhe1984
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Graduate Spin of Black Holes: How Does it Affect Collapse?

  • tony873004
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Can space be perceived in more then one way?

  • Nicole K
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Graduate Cosmological Constant and the like

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High School Decoding the Meaning of 2003 UB313: A Discovery from October 21, 2003

  • tony873004
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Graduate How does the orbital diameter of 2003 UB313 compare to its orbital period?

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate What Caused the Strongest Explosion in the Universe?

  • Agent C.I
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High School Why sun looks bigger in the evening?

  • En_lizard
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High School Spectra Graph: Definition & Examples

  • UrbanXrisis
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Undergrad Reaching Equilibrium: Estimating Time to Balance

  • Ely Rajo
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Graduate What Causes the Enigmatic Black Aurora Phenomenon?

  • Ivan Seeking
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High School BVRIJHK Photometry: What Do the Letters Stand For?

  • tony873004
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Graduate Schechter Function of Galaxy Luminosity-Density relationship

  • sderamus
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Graduate Could a Planet Gain Mass and Ignite as a Star?

  • ThomasFuhlery
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Graduate Has Lightspeed Changed Over Billions of Years?

  • Anders Lundberg
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Graduate Did Simon Singh get stumped at the end of his Big Bang lecture?

  • jhe1984
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Graduate Could We See the Edge of the Universe?

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Graduate We all love to prove things [spectral broadening/relativity]

  • fasterthanjoao
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Undergrad Undergrad: General Astronomy Questions.

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Graduate Is Dark Energy+Matter product of quantum particle-pair creation?

  • CosmologyHobbyist
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Graduate Dark Galaxy Discovered: Unbelievable Findings

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Is Time Measured Differently During the Big Bang?

  • alkammy
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High School Inflationary Theory Explained: A Beginner's Guide

  • vincentm
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Graduate What is at the Edge of a Closed Universe?

  • Monoxide
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Undergrad Is Our View of the Milky Way Accurate or Just Another Galaxy?

  • |Orion's Thought|
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Graduate Urr, this doesn't seem like it should be very hard but well, good 'ol me

  • schattenjaeger
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Why Are Two Stars Leaving Our Galaxy?

  • varsha
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Undergrad Could something be seen going the speed of light?

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High School Variable Stars: What Causes Their Brightness to Vary?

  • varsha
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Graduate What is behind the pulsation of the light of a Cepheid?

  • Leonardo Sidis
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Undergrad So, what would happen if a comet the size of our moon collided with Venus?

  • psksvp
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VERY high resolution Cassini photos?

  • chroot
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Undergrad Infinite Gravity: Photons Particles w/o Mass?

  • Ange de L'inconnu
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Graduate The Pioneer Anomaly: A Doppler Shift Explanation

  • marcus
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High School Is Everything in the Universe Defined by Opposites?

  • Wings of Pegasus
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Graduate Black holes: best candidate for dark matter?

  • Loren Booda
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Does the Universe Have a Mind of Its Own?

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Graduate What Are the Sources and Generation Methods of Neutrinos?

  • BigStelly
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Undergrad Small Comets, Dr Louis Rich, & Water In Space

  • John L
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Graduate Hawking radiation, Is it possible?

  • Upisoft
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Have you seen the hilariously bad movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space?

  • Azael
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Graduate Can Hyper-Velocity Stars Illuminate the Structure of the Galactic Halo?

  • Garth
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Universe Today PDF: Interested in Astronomy?

  • cscott
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Graduate Big Bang Radiation: Does Gravity Reverse Its Spread?

  • trichop
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Graduate Is the Universe Flat or Does it Have a Height?

  • jhe1984
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Undergrad Big-Bang Theory Modification Real or Not

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Graduate Fabric of Space-Time: Investigating Wormholes

  • Frizz
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Graduate Cosmic Microwave Background primer

  • Chronos
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Roving Mars: IMAX movie coming soon

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate A question related to cosmology( or perhaps philosophy)

  • kant
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Graduate Dating techniques for our universe

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Graduate Do quasar redshift anomalies challenge mainstream theories?

  • lezardo
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High School Has Dark Matter Been Found and Does It Bend Light?

  • touqra
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Undergrad How Do We Calculate the Weight of Celestial Bodies in the Solar System?

  • Blahness
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Graduate The Mysteries of Stellar Evolution in Low Metallicity Environments

  • Chronos
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Undergrad Is the Sun's Core Really Made of Iron?

  • /0
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Graduate Terrestrial planet search review paper

  • marcus
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Graduate Explaining Planet Ejection in Planetary Forming Systems

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Undergrad Horizons Mission: How Will the New Horizons Probe Leave the Solar System?

  • Nacho
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Graduate CMBR as an absolute reference frame

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Undergrad Gravitational flux in solar system?

  • jhe1984
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Undergrad Equitorial/Horizontal co-ordinate questions

  • Brewer
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High School Air baloon and came back down about 12 hours later

  • gm5170
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Undergrad Vaporizing Black Holes: Does It Really Happen?

  • varsha
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Graduate Important Findings on Dark Matter

  • franznietzsche
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Undergrad Does the Expansion of Space Mean Everything is Growing?

  • Saoist
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Graduate Sun ejects its outer layers as it becomes a white dwarf

  • ukmicky
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Graduate Close encounters of the massive kind

  • Nereid
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Undergrad How Does Jupiter's Gravity Affect Its Gas Composition?

  • Hurricane
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Undergrad Will Stardust's Return Uncover Hidden Cosmic Secrets?

  • Ivan Seeking
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