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Graduate Why is it difficult to measure the perihelion advance of the planet Venus? Help

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Graduate Are Magnetic Anomalies the Cause of Black Hole Eruptions?

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Graduate The Hubble Length and Mass of the Universe

  • Ian
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Graduate Habitable Planets: Disaster Zones and Safe Havens

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Habitable Worlds circling non-Sol like stars

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Undergrad Moon Moving Away: Effects & Possibilities

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Graduate Disk Scale Length Help: Troubleshooting for Science Fair

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Stargazing Can You Find a Quality Telescope for Under $100?

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Undergrad Exo-Planets: 70% Eccentric Orbits - Does It Imply Rare Solar System?

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Graduate Another possible crisis for the standard cosmological model?

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Graduate Neutron stars: good short article

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Graduate Proving the Expansion of the Universe

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Graduate Magnetic fields and inter stella medium

  • wolram
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Graduate Armchair Cosmology: Djorgovski & Williams Examine Virtual Observatories

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Graduate Measuring Venus Perihelion: Challenges & Solutions

  • smokie
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Graduate Which Fundamental Force Drives Inflation?

  • briandunning
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High School Solar Flares: Causes, Effects & Prevention

  • Reshma
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Is Our Solar System Unique or Just Run of the Mill?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Is There a Preferred Axis in the Cosmic Radiation Anisotropy?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Interpreting Spectra for Jupiter's Rotational Speed

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Graduate Newton's Equation: Applying to Earth-Moon-Sun System

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Undergrad Is Hawking Right About Black Holes Not Being Black?

  • Aki
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Undergrad Is Space Time Only Relevant in Space?

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High School What is the cutoff speed-of-sound for humans to distinguish direction in water?

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Graduate Why Do Hot Jupiters Exist and Not Other Planetary Configurations?

  • marcus
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Graduate Can Mass Exist in a Singularity?

  • bayan
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High School How does light interact with objects?

  • Prague
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Graduate Question: How do universes reproduce and pass on their physical constants?

  • Gold Barz
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Does Mars have it's own calendar yet?

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Graduate Is the Friedmann Equation Failing at Late Times?

  • wolram
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Graduate Are We Missing Earth-Like Planets Due to Orbital Orientation?

  • Chris Russell
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Graduate First Stars - How big - Now Black Holes?

  • Billy T
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Undergrad Understanding Gravitation: The Relationship Between Earth and Moon

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Graduate Is the Matter-Antimatter Imbalance in Our Universe Just a Simple Anomaly?

  • brightstar2005
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Undergrad The most complex extraterrestrial molecule

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Expanding Universe: Is everything really getting bigger?

  • oakstick
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Graduate Oort Cloud Treat to Interstellar Space Travel

  • Chris Russell
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Graduate How to calculate age of universe with a certain redshift?

  • detty_hk
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Graduate What If: Gravity Changed When Universe Laws Tweaked?

  • Gold Barz
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Undergrad Astrophysics Scientific Research

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Graduate Infinite-infinite universe explains all

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High School Electric Planet? Is It Possible?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Can We Detect WIMPs and Axions on Earth?

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Graduate Is the Universe Inside a Giant Black Hole?

  • Uno Lee
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High School Need Term for a Star and Its Associated Bodies

  • Chris Russell
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Stargazing How to Design a Simple Telescope?

  • Alawadhi
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Graduate New overview of cosmology for Ashtekar's book

  • marcus
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High School Are Solar Systems Common in the Universe?

  • Gold Barz
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Undergrad What Happens to Matter and Energy at the End of the Universe?

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Undergrad Atmospheric Pressure determined by?

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Stargazing Building a DIY Radio Telescope: Worth the Time and Effort?

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High School The age of the universe: easy question - hard answer

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Undergrad What Are Common Misconceptions About the Big Bang?

  • tribdog
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Reach the End of Universe: Is There a Wall?

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Undergrad What Is Needed To Make An Intelligent Species?

  • Gold Barz
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High School Your Definition Of An Earth-Like Planet?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Angular momentum of galaxy disks

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Undergrad Is There an Unknown Source of Energy Contributing to Our Universe's Expansion?

  • brucephy
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Undergrad Would Different Laws Of Physics Affect Gravity?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate Dark Matter & Energy/Mass of False Vacuum

  • Nacho
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Oh great, unmoderated alien communications

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Undergrad What is the comet's speed at its perihelion

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Graduate Is the Vacuum the Same as Quantum Foam?

  • Gold Barz
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Undergrad Explore the Mysteries of Neptune's Magnetic Field

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Undergrad Relation between Mass and distance between two objects

  • shunya
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Undergrad Alternating planetary phase layers

  • Loren Booda
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Stargazing Are There Internet Based Telescopes Available for Public Use?

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Is the 2nd Big Bang Theory Just Hype?

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Graduate How Does Dark Matter Avoid Gravitational Collapse?

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High School What Topics Can I Explore About Singularity for My Oral Presentation?

  • bayan
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High School Astrophysics -What actually is this?

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Graduate Measuring Io's Velocity Spectra: The Importance of Spectrometer Sensitivity

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High School The Impact of a Moonless Earth: Effects on Tides and Beyond

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Undergrad Is a Subspace Sphere Around a Star Plausible in TNG Season 6?

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What are you doing in your parallel universes?

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Space Love: A Comic for Astro Nerds!

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Graduate More exoplanet equation problems :/

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Graduate Lab Fireball at RHIC May Have Black Hole Characteristics

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High School Is it safe to assume that Earth-like planets are the best

  • Gold Barz
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Has a Man-Made Black Hole Really Been Created?

  • theCandyman
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Is NASA Shutting Down Long-Running Space Missions to Save Money?

  • Phobos
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Graduate Fusion Reactor: A Possible Solution to Generate Thermal Energy?

  • oldunion
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Graduate Thoughts on holographic universe and existence in general

  • rody084
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High School Relative Planet Distances: Find Date/Start/Destination Distances

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Graduate What's the difference between a two sphere and a three sphere?

  • Baggio
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Graduate What is the theoretical limit on the mass of stars and has it been observed?

  • marcus
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Graduate I saw an article in New Scientist re CBR

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Undergrad Is Life Common and Resilient in the Universe?

  • Gold Barz
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Graduate What happens if you travel faster than the Speed of light

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Graduate What Happened Before the First Planck Time?

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Graduate Dark energy = dark matter*speed of light squared?

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Graduate Is the Theory of Gravitational Waves Dead if Advanced LIGO Fails to Detect Them?

  • X-43D
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High School Earth's Orbit: Why Is It Not Circular?

  • brucephy
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Graduate Galaxies Accelerating at End of Universe: Big Bang Theory Wrong?

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Graduate Can we calculate the Schwarzschild radius of an object without knowing its mass?

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Graduate Which textbook is best for studying gravitation and cosmology?

  • folksong
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Undergrad What happends to light before it reaches us?

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Graduate Exoplanet Dynamics: Investigating Planet Migration

  • Kurdt
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Graduate What exactly is it being bent by gravity?

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