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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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Undergrad Is a Miniature Solar System Being Born?
- Astronuc
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High School What is a Black Hole Actually Made Of?
- Mr. dude
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Graduate Need WMAP error bars for CMBFAST power spectrum output
- Nim
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Undergrad The Universe as big as a basket ball?
- edgar23
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Graduate What is Causing the Expansion of a Singular Particle in an Absorbed Universe?
- hexhunter
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Graduate Recent Supernovae Ia observations tend to rule out all the cosmologies
- Garth
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Graduate Paper - Sun not powered by H fusion
- turbo
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Graduate Could Flattened Disks Explain Galaxy Rotation Without Dark Matter?
- ek
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High School Is Zeilkik and Gregory's Introductory Astronomy & Astrophysics still worth reading?
- Nusc
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Undergrad Jupiter as a Gravitational lens?
- Azael
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Graduate Does natural selection apply extra-galactically?
- jhe1984
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Undergrad Edmund halley and the venus transit
- adjkgh
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- Poll
Graduate Will humanity reach another star system before self-destruction?
- marcus
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High School Probe returning with asteroid rock sample
- marcus
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Graduate What Is the Entropy of a Black Hole?
- jackle
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Graduate Does mathematics rule the universe?
- TiffanyW-S
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Poll of exoplanet-finders about best methods
- marcus
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Graduate I tend to think of the universe in a simple matter
- octelcogopod
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Graduate Why Did the Big Bang Create Irregular Bumps Instead of Expanding Uniformly?
- Sydius
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Undergrad Why are our planets and galaxy in a plane shape?
- syano
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Delay of JWST a Major Setback for Astronomy
- Vast
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Graduate Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids
- tony873004
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Undergrad Why does a gas cloud spontanously rotate?
- BigMacnFries
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Graduate Could Quasars Be Ejection Events Instead of Collisions?
- turbo
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High School Speed of light? Or velocity of free space?
- dgoodpasture2005
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High School What is at the center of a galaxy?
- Raziel McCloud
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Will Venus Express solve mysteries or uncover more?
- Andre
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PF is taken over by space robots?
- rachmaninoff
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Graduate If space is flat then what is directly under the planets?
- n0sferatu
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Graduate Planets cause a warp in the fabric of space time
- vincentm
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Graduate Why does a flat universe expand forever but acceleration suggests it won't slow down?
- Iscariot
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Graduate Does Gravity Play a Significant Role in Accretion?
- -Job-
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Graduate Wien's law, planetary mass, orbital period, and Kuiper belt problems
- astronomystudent
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Graduate What Are the Best Papers on Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
- wolram
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Graduate Patent 4 a close 2 C space vehicle drive
- MonstersFromTheId
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Graduate Speed of object in free fall from the Moon's distance
- RandallB
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Graduate Would a lunar settlement need artificial gravity and can it be rotated?
- sid_galt
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Graduate Acceleration of charges at Big Bang
- Macro
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Undergrad Does Gravitational Attraction Cause Energy Transfer Between Celestial Bodies?
- underworld
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Undergrad What Do We Know About the Composition of Mars' Moons, Phobos and Deimos?
- sid_galt
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Undergrad Why doesn't gravitational lensing create a ring instead of multiple images?
- BerryBoy
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Graduate Models for Compactification from Inflation?
- ranyart
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High School What Can You See With a Telescope During the Day?
- AG!
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Graduate Did Inflation Solve the Problem of the Universe's Original Gravity?
- Macro
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Undergrad Seeing light from early Universe
- Critical_Pedagogy
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Graduate Could universal expansion be infalling toward a cosmic center of mass?
- Jonny_trigonometry
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Graduate There must be a center to it all.
- PENDRAGONDS
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Graduate Can 10000kg bolts and nuts be screwed precisely in space?
- dev_arora_13
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Should The Galaxy Have Been Colonized By Now?
- Gold Barz
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Graduate Black Holes: The Possibility of Energy to Matter Conversion
- Dook
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Was the universe created? (not an evolution discussion)
- KingNothing
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Graduate Would different physical laws arise if we restarted the Big Bang?
- Gold Barz
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Graduate Can We Pinpoint the Direction of the Big Bang's Origin?
- sruthisupriya
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Graduate Is Dark Matter the Unruh effect applied to the acceleration of Gravity?
- Mike2
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- Poll
Graduate Response to Fermi's paradox: are we the first colonizing species?
- marcus
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Graduate Could the Speed of Light be Calculated Differently?
- orlandodelavega
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Graduate What is the diameter of the observable universe?
- Critical_Pedagogy
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Graduate Is there a law of conservation for space itself?
- -Job-
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High School Does the moon's rotation slowly change so we see more of the far side over time?
- whatdofisheat
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Graduate Energy Requirements for Compressing Matter into a Black Hole
- -Job-
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Stargazing What features should beginners look for when purchasing a telescope?
- chound
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Graduate Glass Planets: Common and Detectable in Our Galactic Neighborhood?
- Loren Booda
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Undergrad Why Does Venus Rotate Backwards?
- WarrenPlatts
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High School What is the Truth about Black Holes and Light Holes?
- Zoomie
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Graduate Is There a Way to Distinguish Between Singularity and Matter in Black Holes?
- Psi 5
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Graduate What happens inside a black hole?
- suraj
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Undergrad Why are geosynchronous orbirs in equatorial plane circular?
- beserk
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Undergrad IS IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE A TRANSPARENT SHIELD FOR SPACE STATIONS?
- dev_arora_13
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Stargazing Telescope acting like microscope
- Plastic Photon
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Graduate Can White Holes Challenge the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
- flotsam
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Undergrad [stars] Nuclear Fuel usage rate
- vincentm
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Graduate What Happens to the Universe if Omega Equals Exactly 1?
- cosmic time
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Graduate A rulebased universe is much more compelling
- octelcogopod
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Stargazing Animation I made last night of Mars
- russ_watters
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Graduate Is a neutron star held together mainly by the strong force?
- Jonny_trigonometry
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Graduate Can an infinite universe be a closed system for entropy?
- berty
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Graduate Who here has calculated the dark energy density?
- marcus
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Graduate Could a Supernova Have Killed Off Mammoths?
- Andre
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Graduate Could the Big Bang Be a White Hole?
- shintashi
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Graduate What is the appropriateness of the term potential in general relativity?
- Jonny_trigonometry
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Undergrad Maximum range of a missile accounting for Earth's curvature
- myleo727
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Undergrad Are There Tables Showing Distance vs. Red Shift of Stars?
- PhiJ
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Graduate Can you observe evidence for a multiverse?
- Garth
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High School What is the biggest star we know of?
- vincentm
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Books about astronomy that are printable online
- DoAPoodle
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Graduate Photon, Gravity, Mass and Black Holes.
- cicsgeek
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Graduate Is Our Universe Just a Giant Black Hole?
- Grant911
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Graduate Is the Universe Infinitely Old and What Would We Expect to See?
- Chronos
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Graduate Are Traces of Earliest Stars Actually Detected?
- vincentm
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- Poll
Graduate Is the Universe Finite or Infinite? A Poll on the Current Debate in Cosmology
- marcus
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Undergrad Specific definition of space in BB
- DavidMx
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Stargazing Are There Non-Photonic 'Telescopes' for Studying Astrophysical Objects?
- Nereid
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Graduate An anomalous concentration of QSOs around NGC 3079
- Garth
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Graduate Values of an rms speed of hydrogen atoms in the observable universe?
- Jonny_trigonometry
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High School Lower mass = more elliptical orbit?
- vincentm
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Graduate Scientific method and predictability in cosmology
- elerner
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