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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 Why doesn't Jupiter's gravity compress its gases into solids?
- Hurricane
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Undergrad Stardust sample return mission results
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Is the Singularity Infinitely Dense and Small?
- JCCol
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Undergrad NASA Observation: Cartwheel's Massive Rings
- hypatia
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Graduate Life on a brown dwarf or a fissioning rouge planet?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Can Nemesis and Planet X still be ruled out?
- Nereid
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Graduate Pioneer anomaly and outer planet orbital motions
- varsha
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High School Why don't interstellar gas clouds drift through our solar system?
- jhe1984
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High School 'nothing' happened before the big bang?
- varsha
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High School How to find the best time of year to observe a star from my location
- Brewer
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Graduate Are Multi Universes and Infinite Space Possible with Big Bang Theory?
- David_777
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Graduate What is the Latest Update on CMB (end 2005)?
- marcus
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Graduate A New Explanation for Venus' Retrograde Rotation
- WarrenPlatts
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Graduate Areas of space that we cannot see that also have an effect on expansion?
- Rake
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High School Can Sound Be Heard on Other Planets?
- bags
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Graduate Can we observe black holes consuming matter?
- ukmicky
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Graduate Modeling the Milky Way with isothermal and NFW dark matter profiles
- S.P.P
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Graduate Not sure this is the right thread for this?
- Schrodinger's Dog
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High School Are distant stars actually younger or the same age as nearby stars?
- Blahness
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Graduate What Is the Shape of the Universe?
- Wizardsblade
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High School Trapezium in orion was a very strange quadruple star
- jnorman
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Three cheers and two years for the Mars rovers
- Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Why don't stars explode? What holds them together?
- alancj
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Undergrad Planetary Orbits Around Black Holes
- varsha
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Undergrad How do they know the universe is expanding
- ukmicky
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Graduate What happens if you travel beyond the edge of the universe?
- Silverbackman
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Heim-Dröscher space,eight-dimensional universe, Mars-Earth: three hour trip
- Dr. Nick
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Earth Seen from Mars - NASA JPL Image
- scott1
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Undergrad Can a 2 million pound asteroid stay in moon orbit for 20 years?
- Plastic Photon
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Undergrad Finding the distance to an Asteroid
- dimensionless
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Graduate The Cosmological Parameters 2005
- marcus
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What would it take to completely destroy a planet?
- NavyMan
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Graduate Frank Tipler on Matter-Energy Conversion
- WarrenPlatts
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Earth Space Agency: Your Opinion Matters
- sandijs
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Graduate Would black holes form before matter converted to energy in a contracting universe?
- zanazzi78
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Graduate Same star in many places in the sky
- -Job-
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Graduate Addressing Impossibilities in the Standard Cosmological Model
- turbo
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High School What would a spacetime diagram of a binary star system look like?
- blumfeld0
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High School Holographic universe and werewolves/shapeshifters.possible?
- jimmy1200
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Graduate New Clifford Will paper (LISA, BHs)
- marcus
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Not your standard '2005 in review' thread
- Nereid
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Graduate Alternate sources for 3K background radiation?
- Graviman
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Undergrad How do Earth's orbital plane and Moon's orbital plane intersect?
- -Job-
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Undergrad What is the physical description of negative pressure?
- helenwang413
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Undergrad What Causes the Vibrant Cloud Colors on Jupiter?
- mrjeffy321
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Undergrad How Big Would a Black Hole Be if All the Stars in the Universe Combined?
- van gogh
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Undergrad How Do We Know the Sun's Orbit Through the Galaxy?
- Mk
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Graduate Is It Possible to Destroy Stars Technologically?
- Aurora Firestorm
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High School I am probably going to be critizied for this, but
- modeman
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Graduate What Happens When a Star Exceeds the Chandrasekhar Limit and Forms a Black Hole?
- ThomasFuhlery
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Graduate Number of parallel universes formed at each measurement
- Mr. Tambourine Man
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Graduate Does an intelligent universe require time travel to exist?
- Causal
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Undergrad Will the temperature in the universe ever reach absolute zero?
- shanu_bhaiya
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Graduate Do atoms expand at the universal expansion rate?
- Paul Martin
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Undergrad Could Black Holes Be the Opposite of Suns in the Big Bang Theory?
- runicle
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Graduate Could the Big Bang Be a Pinched-Off Bubble from a Greater Dimension?
- Lord Draco
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Graduate Is Blackhole Symmetry Proportional to Information Exchange?
- Olias
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Graduate What do we actually know about dark energy and dark matter?
- jhe1984
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About to become an armchair astronomer
- jhe1984
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Graduate Why is the CMB so uniform and isotropic?
- vincentm
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Undergrad How do know if something is red-shifted without prior knowledge?
- Saoist
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Undergrad How Do We Know The Age Of The Universe For Sure?
- Silverbackman
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Graduate Why does both a static and expanding universe need a cosmological constant?
- pivoxa15
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Graduate What is Universeguy's Paradox in the Study of the Pary Galaxy?
- japam
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Graduate Correct Understanding of Big Bang Theory
- Lord Draco
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Graduate A theory of gravity based on special relativity
- Garth
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Graduate Space-Time Fabric: Is There Anything Beyond?
- M Telepathic
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Graduate What is coordinate precession in Mercury's perihelion precession?
- RandallB
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Undergrad Does the Earth-Moon center of mass follow an elliptical orbit around the sun?
- dimensionless
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Graduate Big Bang and the Law of Conservation of Matter/Energy?
- M Telepathic
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Graduate What is the cuspy halo problem in dark matter?
- jhe1984
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Graduate Will cosmology ever confirm the Big Bang theory?
- vincentm
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High School Lifecycles of Stars: What Causes Gravity in the Beginning?
- mrhessy
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Have You Ever Watched the Movie Spaceballs?
- Blahness
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Graduate Do gravitational waves exist?
- Spin_Network
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Graduate Discussion/essay for uni on the Inflation proscess
- JohnnyTheFox
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Undergrad Does a Flat Universe Have an Edge?
- pivoxa15
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Undergrad Can the universe repeat identically after a big crunch and new big bang?
- waderoo
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Graduate Could the Big Bang Allow for an Infinite Universe?
- pivoxa15
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Graduate Can the universe fit in a multiverse if it's spatially infinite?
- Macro
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High School Some spiral galaxies larger than previously reported
- Astronuc
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High School Why Do Galaxies Form Spiral Shapes?
- eosphorus
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What Defines the Space Opera Genre?
- Cladson
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Graduate Can a galaxy have a recession velocity greater than the speed of light?
- nnxion
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Graduate Solving for Mars Encounter Orbit w/Limited Info
- skiboka33
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Undergrad What causes gamma ray bursts?
- RAD4921
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Graduate Chicago: New Views of the Universe (Dec 8-13,2005)
- robphy
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Graduate How does gravity affect the formation of structures after the big bang?
- Pengwuino
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Neutronium article on Wikipedia needs expert review
- Mk
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Graduate Can VLF radio astronomy be done from space?
- waht
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Undergrad Comet orbital mechanics, brightness inverse square law, and asteroid resonances
- astronomystudent
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Graduate Distinguishing MOND from dark matter
- marcus
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Graduate What role do orbits play in Earth's climate change?
- Bobby R
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Undergrad Sidereal period of Kuiper Belt objects using Kepler's equations
- ehreming
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High School Are all planets and comets in the same orbital plane?
- nomorevishnu
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Stargazing Interested in Astrophotography? Check Out My Site!
- russ_watters
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Undergrad Do galaxies disappear from our view as cosmic expansion accelerates?
- japam
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