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Graduate How did matter reach us before light from the Big Bang?

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High School Viewing galaxies and nebulae from Florida with $800-900 budget

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Is there a dominant colour in our universe?

  • wolram
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Graduate Do universes reproduce through black holes and produce conditions for life?

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Graduate Dark Matter CEUs: Katherine Freese's State of the Union Address

  • Chronos
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Stargazing 114mm reflector photograph of Venus transit from Swansea, 2004

  • zanazzi78
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Converting Gaseous Planets Into Matter

  • Whitestar
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High School Question: Mnemonic for classes of stars

  • Artermis
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Graduate What is the White Hole Model of the Universe?

  • wolram
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Graduate Is Light's Terminal Velocity 300,000 km/s?

  • questionauthority
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Graduate Lee Smolin's fecund universes hypothesis

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Is the Milky Way Actually a Barred Spiral?

  • cscott
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Graduate Is the overall charge of the universe positive, negative, or neutral?

  • darkar
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Graduate GRB 8 billion light-years away: how did it form a new galaxy?

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Graduate Could Other Universes Exist in a Multiverse?

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Graduate Does the 3-body problem have stable solutions?

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High School Water ice in crater at Martian north pole

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High School What is the field of view of the Hubble Telescope's planetary camera?

  • big man
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Stargazing Meade 2114 AltAz telescope not showing planets despite autostar finding them

  • Cladson
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Graduate 10th Planet resonance with Neptune

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Where's SpaceTiger? Summer Vacation Update

  • tony873004
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Graduate What is shot noise and how is it estimated in galaxy surveys?

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High School Three dimension space and one dimension time means

  • Caesar_Rahil
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Perseids a wash-out here :grumpy:

  • turbo
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High School The path of our planetary bodies

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Graduate Why do rocket engines at perihelion give the greatest velocity gain?

  • rieman zeta
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High School What is the fundamental reason for the elliptical shape of orbits?

  • cj
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High School Why Do Planets Rotate Around the Sun Without Crashing?

  • Nocturn888
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Undergrad Law of Two Bodies: Smaller Body Breaks Up

  • sahd0w
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High School New dwarf planet discovered beyond Neptune

  • ohwilleke
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Stargazing Meade 2114 ATTS autostar alignment not working correctly

  • Cladson
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Recent photographs or data of Mars's moons

  • Daminc
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Which astrophysical journal is the best?

  • yu_wing_sin
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Stargazing Buying a New Telescope and would like some input.

  • whatzzupboy
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Online petition to continue Voyager and Hubble programs

  • Phobos
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Planetary Alignment on my Date of Birth

  • porselin13
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Does evil help the universe get better?

  • lockecole
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Graduate Big Bang Implosion: The Symmetry of Cosmic Expansion and Collapse

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Logic, Metaphysics, and the Idea of an Expanding Universe

  • quantumdude
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Graduate The fine tuning problem (all 120 OOM of it)

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Could Self-Replicating Probes Revolutionize Interstellar Exploration?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Dear Phobos, Janus, and Self Adjoint

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High School Can We Really Look Back in Time?

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Undergrad How did the Michelson-Morley experiment show that light speed is constant?

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Graduate Mass not intrinsic, but emergent.

  • turbo
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Stargazing Can the Arecibo Radio Telescope Eavesdrop on the Entire Galaxy?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Can You Imagine a Universe Without Space and Time?

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Graduate Can No Movement FTL Travel Revolutionize Space Travel?

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Undergrad Can one black hole consume another black hole?

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Graduate Is the Universe an Infinite Regression of Black Holes?

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Graduate How Do Stellar Winds Impact the Elemental Composition of Planets?

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Graduate Dark matters seems unlikely to succeed

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Undergrad How Old Are Third Generation Stars

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Is Dark Matter a Macroscopic Manifestation of Quantum Hidden Variables?

  • Spin_Network
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Graduate Is Centripetal Acceleration Relevant in Curved Space-Time?

  • andrewcheong
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High School Meaning of Planet? Just 8 planets?

  • woz
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Undergrad Uneven Cratering of Moon's Surface

  • cj
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Stargazing Views on schimdt Cassegrain telescopes

  • Cyclotron
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Undergrad Cosmology Simulations' softwares

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Are Intermediate Mass Black Holes from Population III Stars?

  • wolram
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Graduate Pulsars with irregular periodicity radiation

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad First extrasolar planet found in triple-star system HD 188753

  • Astronuc
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Graduate How would a gyroscopic space-drive work?

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Graduate Universal Expansion: Faster Than Light?

  • CBJammin103
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Colonization Of The Milky Way Inevitable

  • Gold Barz
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A small test for your astronomic study IQ

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Graduate Did time and space exist before the Big Bang?

  • Rake
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Graduate Is 10K Resolution Possible for Faster-Than-Light Transmissions?

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Kennedy Space Center Hours?

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Graduate Are Wormholes Possible? How Far From a Possibility Are They?

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Is Teleportation Really Possible?

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Graduate Why does gravity play a role in the energy of the universe?

  • Lacy33
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Can we ever see Mars as large as the full moon from Earth?

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High School The relation between the bermuda triangle and black holes

  • Sabine
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Graduate Polarization of quasar emissions

  • turbo
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Stargazing A telescope orbiting an outer planet?

  • Felix83
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Graduate Comparison of the Mainstream and the Self Creation Freely Coasting models

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Undergrad Does Space Have Mass to Support Swirling Galaxies?

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Graduate Nucleosynthesis of PopIII Core Collapse Supernovae

  • wolram
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Graduate Neutrino scalar waves travel back and forwards in time

  • Lisa!
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Graduate Do scientists think black holes have singularities

  • wolram
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High School Can a Black Hole create Supernova?

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Graduate Where Do Black Hole Singularities Send All the Matter They Consume?

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Graduate Where has all the information gone

  • wolram
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Graduate Should We Be Worried About Gravitational Waves?

  • wolram
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High School Do we see the Sun first or its light when it rises?

  • Paul Wilson
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Graduate Are New Ideas Important in Physics and Astronomy?

  • mcgucken
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Graduate How to calculate Jacobians for extended Kalman filter tracking

  • Ultimâ
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Graduate How Does the Shape of the Milky Way's Dark Halo Influence the 511 keV Line?

  • wolram
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Is everything in the universe connected to eachother?

  • PIT2
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Undergrad How big can red supergiants get and can they be born at that size?

  • vincentm
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Graduate Could modern cosmology be shadows of reality like Ptolemy's epicycles?

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Graduate Expanding Universe + Rotation - Lost it somewhere

  • Unknowing
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Stargazing Want to see an incredible solar corona photo?

  • Labguy
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Undergrad Where do Compton Recoil Electrons come from?

  • laminatedevildoll
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Graduate Why bodies in a particle field must move apart after collisions

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High School What is the Earth's magnetic field and how does it protect us from space debris?

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Graduate Problem of process noise of satellite orbit determination

  • whigg_wang
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Stargazing Which Telescope Should My School Purchase for Our New Observatory?

  • GerdankenDonuts
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Undergrad Why do Jupiter and Saturn have atmospheric bands, and why don't Earth and Venus?

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