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Graduate Searching for a Physics Book - Astronaut Dragging Personal Black Hole

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High School Infinite Galaxy: Can Our Universe Really End?

  • aricho
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Graduate Restricted circular 3 body problem RC3BP

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Graduate Exploding and Collapsing Stars: The Mystery of Dark Quark Bodies

  • sd01g
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Graduate The Dark Age of the Early Universe: How Did the CMBR Reach Us?

  • cyleung_2001
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High School Sirius - habitable orbit? (link)

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Graduate A star located 135 degrees from the solar apex on the celestial sphere

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Undergrad How can empty space give off radiation from the Big Bang?

  • Chemical_Penguin
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Reminder about Deep Impact on night of July 3

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Graduate Cosmological Expansion & Uniqueness of Gravity: Multamaki and Vilja

  • wolram
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Graduate Can Space-Time Be Quantized and What Could That Mean for Physics?

  • Physics101
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Undergrad Life evolving on a planet revolving a red dwarf?

  • Gold Barz
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Undergrad Exoplanets in Habitable Zones: HD28185, HD108874, Gliese 876

  • marcus
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Graduate Current galaxy formation in the CDM model

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Graduate Fluctuation Theorem, Big Bang Question

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Graduate Multiverse just passes the buck on

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Graduate What Are the Best Current Physics and Astrophysics Books for Graduate Students?

  • cosmo_boy
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Graduate Origin of cosmic gamma ray background

  • wolram
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Graduate Why is Mass-Energy Concentrated in Atoms, Solar Systems & Galaxies?

  • Ratzinger
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High School Balck hole within 20 light years?

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Graduate Acceleration At The Event Horizon

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Undergrad Why is the Sky Dark Despite Countless Stars?

  • lwymarie
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High School Earth's 'bigger cousin' detected

  • Math Is Hard
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Undergrad Drake Equation: Estimating Life Supporting Planets & Detecting Life

  • wolram
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Graduate What Makes Quantum Cosmology Different from Traditional Models?

  • wolram
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Graduate A little direction regarding dark energy.

  • Slimchandi
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High School How does other galaxies differ from out own?

  • MightyMeanie
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High School What Can You Expect to See from Earth During the Comet Buster Impact?

  • chief
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Undergrad Is DST Causing Confusion in Determining UTC for Historical Events?

  • kepler
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High School What is the distance to the nearest star?

  • MightyMeanie
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High School Texts on Introduction to Astronomy/Cosmology

  • dekoi
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Graduate Moon-Earth Slingshot: Launching Craft to Other Solar Objects

  • quetzalcoatl9
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Network to connect television satallite dishes

  • pbj59
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High School What Can You Actually See in the Asteroid Belt with the Naked Eye?

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Stargazing How do I properly set up a telescope mount for accurate tracking and viewing?

  • Integral
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High School Why Variable Stars Change Magnitudes Periodically

  • tmwong
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Graduate Dark Matter need not be for a stable Universe Sez'an'amateur

  • timestill
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Stargazing What am I doing wrong? - Telescope Trouble

  • Felix83
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Graduate Cosmology: the scinece on the universe.

  • cosmo_boy
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Graduate Black hole confusion Not uncommon, is it?

  • "Requiescat in pace"
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Graduate Is There Really an Ocean Beneath Europa's Ice?

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Undergrad Wien's law and black body emition

  • Gabokappa
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Is Our Galaxy One of the Oldest?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Can Dark Matter and Dark Energy Unify the Expansion of the Universe?

  • wolram
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Graduate New one by Moffat (comparing fit to rotation curves)

  • marcus
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High School Explosions in Space: No Use in Space?

  • kurushio95
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Graduate How Was the Multiverse Formed According to Michio Kaku?

  • dm84z28
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Graduate Vilenkin's Proposal: Can Absolute Nothingness Exist?

  • agnostictheist
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Graduate Revisiting the Controversial Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis

  • touqra
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High School Does nightime sky face outer or inner galaxy?

  • Moonrat
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Graduate What is the Meaning of Scale Radius in Spiral Galaxies?

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Virtual Observatory: Cruise the Heavens from Your Recliner

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Graduate What would cause a black hole to explode?

  • Vast
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Stargazing Is There a Way to View the Night Sky Without Leaving Your Computer?

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Graduate Reduced Circumference: Schwarzschild vs Kerr Metric

  • Moore1879
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Graduate Did the Big Bang Theory Withstand Challenges from Eric Lerner and Metaresearch?

  • Theatre Of Fate
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Testability thread is great (keeping comment/discussion out works, too)

  • marcus
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Graduate What Happens If You Stick Your Hand Inside a Black Hole's Event Horizon?

  • hedons
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Undergrad Quasars,white dwarf and neutron stars

  • sage
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Graduate How Would the Universe Appear if Light and Gravity Were Instantaneous?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate My thoughts on Space-Time and Matter-Gravity

  • Physics101
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Graduate Do Black Holes Violate the Laws of Thermodynamics?

  • pakoppan
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Graduate Neutron diffusion and nucleosynthesis

  • wolram
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Graduate Total Eclipse of the Sun: 40s Before Alignment

  • Arctic Fox
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Graduate Artificial Blackbody & Artificial Black Hole: Reality or Theory?

  • matness
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Graduate A solid surface model of the sun.

  • Michael Mozina
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How many alien civilizations are existing in the Milky Way

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Is the Sun's Surface Actually Solid and Electrically Conductive?

  • Michael Mozina
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Undergrad Calculating the age of the universe

  • TheSpecialist
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Graduate Null Energy Condition: What Is It?

  • touqra
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Graduate Could Light from Distant Stars Be Doppelgangers Due to Gravitational Lensing?

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Graduate Random walk and universal expansion

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Is the Big Bang Theory Really Wrong?

  • pmb_phy
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Graduate Time to reach thermal equilibrium with radiation

  • hellfire
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Graduate Question about exploding neutron stars

  • gonzo
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Stargazing Cost-effective digital camera and telescope

  • dekoi
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Graduate BAre Galaxy Clusters Altering the Primordial Echoes from the Big Bang?

  • wolram
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Graduate Space Finite: Flat/Open Universe Possibilities

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Who Here Is In The Rare Earth Camp?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Maximum count for mutually bound stars

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad NBody evaluation, is my model correct?

  • crepincdotcom
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Undergrad Blackhole at the center of each galaxy, think again

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Graduate What happens when two black holes meet?

  • ASKDodge
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Graduate Explaining Curved Space-Time to a Friend

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Graduate Are Gravitational Waves Really Non-Existent? Examining the Evidence

  • Garth
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Stargazing What Are the Theoretical Limits on Radio Telescope Size and Resolution?

  • gonzo
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Graduate What does a neutron star look like

  • gonzo
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Graduate Neutron Star Evolution and Possible Blackhole Formation in Proton Star Collapse

  • Spin_Network
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Graduate How Does Quantum Chaos Theory Explain the Big Bang?

  • Diesel
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Graduate Detect planets through mag field?

  • japam
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Undergrad Could Cosmic Background Radiation Hold Clues About the Big Bang?

  • BigMacnFries
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Graduate How Do Masers Explain the Process of Massive Star Formation?

  • wolram
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Where have you travelled virtually in spacetime?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Vela-X supernova and carbon dating?

  • Andre
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Graduate Please give me some advise about DEC (dominant energy conditions)

  • ylping
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Does Big Bang Theory Allow for God's Existence?

  • Lisa!
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Graduate Does BH Mass Boundary Vary with Matter Type?

  • wolram
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Graduate Quasars non cosmological red shift.

  • wolram
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Graduate Eot-Wash sub-mm test inverse square law

  • marcus
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Graduate New Take on SETI: Astro-ph/0506110

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