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Graduate What exactly is it being bent by gravity?

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Graduate Where did the energy in the CMB go to?

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Graduate Can Cosmic Inflation Explain the Accelerating Universe?

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Undergrad What Is the Difference Between Flux and Intensity in Astronomy?

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Graduate Starless Galaxies: BBC Report on Dark Matter Discovery

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Graduate Flatness Problem: Understanding Resolution in Big Bang Model

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Undergrad Satellite Orbit: Effects of Rocket Thrusts

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Graduate CCC-I: Challenging Observations & New Picture of the Universe

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Graduate How did globular clusters get their properties?

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Graduate VIRGOHI21 & MOND: A New Challenge?

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Graduate Dark matter galaxies, stars and planetoids

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High School What happens at the edge of the universe?

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Graduate Hawking Radiation – Empty space virtual antiparticle-particle pairs

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Undergrad Questions for a college student in astro.

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Graduate Unreasonable aim of the Creator?

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Graduate What happens to matter that falls into a black hole?

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Undergrad Where Has All the Antimatter Gone Since the Big Bang?

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Undergrad Are there still stars being discovered?

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Undergrad Online undergraduate reading resource for Astrophysics request

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Graduate Measuring Rotational Speed of Io w/Doppler & Relative Velocity to Jupiter

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Graduate A search for traces of cosmic string didnt find much

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Graduate Gravity Leak: Testing the Theory w/ Earth-Moon Mirrors

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Graduate Why no 'Big Crunch' a femtosecond after Big Bang ?

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Graduate Difference between flare, CME and SPEs

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Graduate What is the connection between dark energy and dark matter?

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High School Astronomy is the oldest of the physical sciences

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Graduate What does it mean for the universe to be "flat"?

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SciAm Lineweaver cosmology article, March issue

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Graduate Do 3D and 4D Universes Share the Same Geometry?

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Graduate How Do Scientists Determine Exoplanet Characteristics from Radial Velocity Data?

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Graduate What is the upper and lower bound for reionization?

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Graduate Several moons in the Saturn system

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Graduate Local Pristine Primordial Material

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Undergrad Blackbody Radiation: Temperature of Accreted Gas

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Undergrad Will an Astronaut Float at the Positional Median Between Earth and Moon?

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Graduate How do Gravitons escape from a Black Hole?

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Graduate 9 Billion-Year-Old Galaxy Discovered

  • marcus
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Will NASA's Future Missions Be Impacted by Funding Challenges?

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Stargazing Long-exposure mod for the quickcam

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Undergrad Can Black Holes Alter the Movement of the Universe Through Light Bending?

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Graduate Why is our galaxy's dark matter distribution non-spherical?

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High School Brightest Explosion Ever Observed

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What color would the end star be if a red star and a blue star collided?

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High School How is the Distance Between Stars Measured?

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Undergrad Why Do Globular Clusters Maintain Their Shape Over Billions of Years?

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Graduate Initial condition of the restricted problem of three bodies

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Graduate Do Black Holes and the Big Bang Singularity Reflect Maximum Entropy?

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Graduate Weyl Curvature Hypothesis and entropy

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Graduate What is the significance of the recently discovered nearby newborn galaxies?

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Undergrad How Can You Measure Star Distances Using Ancient Astronomical Techniques?

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Graduate Higgs ocean, dark energy and quantum fluctuations: related manifestations?

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Graduate Calculating Total Energy of a Planet Orbiting a Star: A Simple Guide

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Undergrad Turning Matter into Energy and Back: Is It Possible?

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Graduate Could Other Universes Fine-Tune Their Own Inhabitants?

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Graduate What is the latest research on CMB anisotropy and its implications?

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Cosmology: Sales Pitch or Science?

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Graduate Crisis in Cosmology: CCC-I Conference Challenges Observations

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Send Your Name to Pluto | Join NASA's Latest PR Idea and Make History!

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Graduate Cyclical Universe: Spontaneous Inflation & Time's Arrow

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Undergrad Is there a maximum mass limit for stars in the universe?

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Graduate Shape of the Universe: Interaction of Forces & Evolution

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Undergrad Can we please look for 'New Earth' at Alpha Centauri?

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Graduate Black holes bend light the wrong way

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Undergrad Calculating the Centre of Mass in a 2-Body System

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Can the Moon's rotation be affected by Earth's tides?

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Graduate New MOND Papers: Jacob Bekenstein’s TeVeS Breakthrough

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Graduate Is There Meaning in an Empty Universe?

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Interstellar propulsion island hopping the Oort cloud

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High School Moons with Moons: Solar System Possiblities

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Graduate Why are the theoretical and measured sizes/ages of the universe so similar?

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Graduate Help with Orbit Sim: 2-Body Anomalous Motion Problem

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Graduate Unveiling the Mysteries of Gravity Waves: Origins and Properties Explained"

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Undergrad A body intermediate to stars and galaxies

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High School Boarder of Universe: What Makes It & Can It Change?

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Undergrad How is exoplanet mass found by astrometry?

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Graduate The Moon and the Anthrorpic Principle

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Graduate Accelerated expansion: is the jury still out?

  • Chronos
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High School Astronomy & Cosmology: What's the Difference?

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Graduate Solving the Energy Crisis on a Methane-Rich Planet

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Graduate Is There a Significant Shift in the Triple-Alpha Process?

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Graduate Cosmological Principle: Finite or Finiteless Universe?

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Undergrad Let's think crack u'r brain with this qn.

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Undergrad Is the Andromeda Galaxy going to collide with the Milky Way?

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Graduate Could S Meson Explain Dark Matter?

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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Pluto: 75 Years Since Its Discovery and Counting

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Graduate Average luminosity of night sky vs frequency

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High School How much radiation comes in contact with the martian surface?

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Graduate Is the Pioneer Anomaly Explained by Topological Phase Defects of Light?

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Undergrad Is There Evidence of Life on Mars?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Over density of galaxies at z=5.9

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Graduate Traveling to different Universes?

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Graduate Why Does the Solar System's Angular Momentum Distribution Appear Anomalous?

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Have Scientists Discovered the Smallest Exoplanet Yet?

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Graduate What is the significance of being in the eigenspace of Christ?

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Habitable Star Systems: Where Can We Find Maggie Turnbull's Catalogue?

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Undergrad Help with planetary temp. equation

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Graduate A Universe That Is More Life-Producing?

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Twisted Meteor Train - A Sight to Behold

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Undergrad Finding a Formula for Determining G Forces in Space Travel

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Graduate Can We Talk of Points of Space?

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