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Undergrad Where did the early photons go?

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High School Can big bang be a part of a loop?

  • anuureeett
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Undergrad How feasible is home radio astronomy?

  • Vanadium 50
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Undergrad Are primordial fluctuations the source of all structure?

  • Ahmedbadr132
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High School What happens to information inside a black hole?

  • praneel ghate
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Undergrad Illuminating Black Hole Shadows with Dark Matter Annihilation

  • fresh_42
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Stargazing Castor, Pollux, Mars and the Moon

  • pbuk
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Stargazing Partial Solar Eclipse, From Southern New Zealand

  • davenn
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Undergrad Are There Two Suns? Exploring the Phenomenon of Sun Dogs

  • Fastmamon
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High School Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 1% risk of a multi-megaton impact in 2032 (now ruled out)

  • mfb
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High School Matter density right after the decoupling

  • janeczek
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High School Why Does Titan Have an Atmosphere While Other Large Moons Don't?

  • zuz
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High School Venus and Jupiter Conjunction

  • Charles Link
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Undergrad Potential biosignature found in Mars rock

  • mfb
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Undergrad Does it make sense to build new radio telescopes?

  • Line_112
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High School Inflation after Atacama Cosmology Telescope Results

  • windy miller
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Graduate Could gamma-ray bursts have an intragalactic origin?

  • Line_112
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Stargazing Orange lines on Aladin lite

  • TensorCalculus
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Graduate Why do both poles of a radio pulsar emit radio waves?

  • Line_112
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Undergrad Could fast radio bursts be alien radar signals?

  • Line_112
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High School Looking for a list of astronomy collaborations

  • ohwilleke
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High School Does Time Pass at Different Rates on Other Planets?

  • mathewmcgill
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Graduate Self-gravitating systems and MOND

  • JCTthatsME
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High School Realism about singularity

  • windy miller
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Undergrad How to explain the strange pulsar in the Crab Nebula?

  • Line_112
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Undergrad Why are continuously emitting radio pulsars not detected?

  • Line_112
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Undergrad Time interval terminology

  • 1940LaSalle
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Graduate Charge to mass ratio of a photon

  • Karmyogi01
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High School Simulating the Universe's First Stars - The Population III Stars

  • jedishrfu
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Undergrad Cosmological perturbations and CMBR anisotropies

  • Ranku
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High School What is conformal time?

  • Dark85
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High School Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 Cancelled for now

  • Astronuc
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High School Feasibility of Sending a Radio Signal Detectable from a Neighboring Star

  • Trysse
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High School How Can Interstellar Asteroids Be Analyzed Using Orbital Mechanics Equations?

  • OmCheeto
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Undergrad How Does the Balloon Analogy Explain the Expansion of the Universe?

  • jv11
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Undergrad Is Introducing a New Cosmological Model Based on Aether Theory Permissible Here?

  • Starknakdfopsy
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Undergrad No symmetries in the Universe at the Big Bang...?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Flatlander analogy of spherical surface as observable universe

  • Catastrophe
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High School Conflict between the conservation of matter and the rapid expansion of our universe

  • JedediahJones
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Undergrad Sun gravitational lensing forces

  • jv11
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High School Where can I find easy-to-understand GAIA exoplanet data?

  • Cerenkov
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Undergrad The impact of early galaxy formation on the CMBR

  • pinball1970
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High School Sun's peak wavelengths and chlorophyll's green colour

  • DaveC426913
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Stargazing How Can You Improve Your Amateur Solar Imaging Techniques?

  • davenn
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Graduate Understanding the Gravitational Redshift Caused by a Black Hole

  • Karmyogi01
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High School How well do we understand the formation of population III stars?

  • BWV
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Undergrad Questions on Expansion of the Universe and Newtonian Physics

  • lee_st3
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High School Strange spiral structure in Oort Cloud, outer Solar System

  • Astronuc
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Undergrad How 'Messy' are Fusion Reaction Chains in Stars?

  • Drakkith
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High School Big Bang and Infinite Universe

  • Jimmy87
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High School Strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system

  • Cerenkov
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Undergrad How to calculate the mass within the Hubble Sphere?

  • timmdeeg
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Graduate Hubble tension -- any resolution?

  • Mordred
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High School Can You Ace Harvard's Galactic Quiz?

  • Hornbein
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Undergrad Help with my Polar Aligning Star Tracker please

  • LightningInAJar
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Undergrad Dark Matter , Dark energy and the Dirac equation

  • GaloisGroup
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High School What Factors Influence the Survival and Growth of Accreting Bodies in Space?

  • revnice
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High School Trying to understand orbiting objects in space

  • mgsullivan24
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Undergrad IRAF 2025?

  • mishima
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Undergrad If We Crack the Neutron Star Equation of State, How Will It Change Our Daily Lives?

  • Alexandra Jan
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High School Colliding Gas Cloud to form a Star

  • Omega0
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High School Could Black Hole Collisions Trigger a Cyclical Big Bang and Universe Rebirth?

  • dvdpitch
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Undergrad Gravitational wave effects on different materials

  • Andy DS
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High School Thought experiment to compare the present with the future flow of time

  • witold
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High School Proper time of the observer resting in CMB reference frame

  • ongoer
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How Can I Enhance My Deep Sky Images and Identify Celestial Objects?

  • mad4itpete
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Undergrad How do you get to the conclusion that there is accelerating expansion?

  • Ben vdP
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Undergrad Inflation Models that don't produce Multiverse?

  • cosmanino2050
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High School What has space exploration done for me as an individual?

  • zuz
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High School What Would You See at the Edge of the Expanding Universe?

  • desertshaman
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High School Does an infinite universe contradict a Big Bang origin?

  • DaveC426913
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Stargazing Small angle lunar haloes

  • Bandersnatch
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Graduate Did scientists just find that the Universe has finite angular momentum?

  • pines-demon
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High School Confusion regarding black hole spin

  • Dark85
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Undergrad Mass Loss on an HR diagram

  • Lizard
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Undergrad Magnitude where the Pale Dot is blue?

  • snorkack
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Undergrad Is the amount of dark matter constant in the Universe?

  • Ranku
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Graduate Classifying Milky Way planets by what they´re bound to and originate from

  • snorkack
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Undergrad Galaxy GNZ11 33 billion light-years away

  • Andy DS
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High School First ever recorded planetary engulfment

  • Tom.G
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Undergrad If white holes were to exist in our Universe

  • mad mathematician
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High School Does Sun cross planes of all binary stars?

  • snorkack
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Graduate Black Hole TON618 - Wavelength Spectrum

  • nanjo
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Graduate Late time and early time approximation for EOS

  • djymndl07
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Stargazing Q: Meridian flip

  • Andy Resnick
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Undergrad Will DESI confirm that the Universe isn't described by the ΛCDM model?

  • Suekdccia
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High School What is dark matter?

  • oxgop
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High School Is the Gaia Telescope's Shutdown Impacting Our Ability to Map the Milky Way?

  • Hornbein
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Undergrad Why Do Nebulae only have Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulfur?

  • Newtons Apple
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Undergrad Confused about Stonyhurst Grid and jHelioViewer

  • Arbu
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Undergrad Questions on the consequence of an evolving dark energy parameter

  • Suekdccia
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High School Dark Matter Theory Endorsed By NASA

  • Hornbein
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Undergrad Resolution of Peeble's ODE equation

  • redgun
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High School An old spin to our Universe

  • .Scott
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Undergrad How can the Universe be infinite?

  • Meow12
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Undergrad Speediest Exoplanet System

  • Tom.G
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High School How Can Black Holes Vary in Size if They Are Singularities?

  • kickaxe
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High School CNO Cycle

  • KingGambit
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Undergrad Can Staging Rockets Achieve Faster-Than-Light Travel Despite Relativity?

  • benss
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Measuring the Solar System and Universe

  • Hornbein
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