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Graduate Galaxies Accelerating at End of Universe: Big Bang Theory Wrong?
- zrower33
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Graduate Can we calculate the Schwarzschild radius of an object without knowing its mass?
- mrsmeath
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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?
- Tapsnap
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Graduate Finding papers on massive planet migration mechanisms
- Kurdt
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Graduate What exactly is it being bent by gravity?
- Tapsnap
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Graduate Where did the energy in the CMB go to?
- moving finger
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Graduate Can Cosmic Inflation Explain the Accelerating Universe?
- X-43D
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Undergrad What Is the Difference Between Flux and Intensity in Astronomy?
- orange
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Graduate Hydrogen cloud without stars: does it need dark matter to hold together?
- ohwilleke
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Graduate Flatness Problem: Understanding Resolution in Big Bang Model
- moving finger
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Undergrad How does rocket thrust affect a satellite's circular orbit?
- starbaj12
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Graduate CCC-I: Challenging Observations & New Picture of the Universe
- Garth
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Graduate How did globular clusters get their properties?
- fastartcee
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Graduate Does VIRGOHI21 pose a problem for MOND?
- marcus
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Graduate Dark matter galaxies, stars and planetoids
- Loren Booda
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High School What happens at the edge of the universe?
- mmmmm
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Graduate Hawking Radiation – Empty space virtual antiparticle-particle pairs
- RandallB
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Undergrad Questions for a college student in astro.
- brucephy
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Graduate Unreasonable aim of the Creator?
- moving finger
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Graduate What happens to matter that falls into a black hole?
- JohnnyTheFox
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Undergrad Where Has All the Antimatter Gone Since the Big Bang?
- hexhunter
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Undergrad Can we observe stars whose light hasn't reached Earth yet?
- Qyamat
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Undergrad Online undergraduate reading resource for Astrophysics request
- Superlativity
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Graduate Measuring Io's rotational speed with Doppler shift when not perpendicular to observation
- Link
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Graduate A search for traces of cosmic string didnt find much
- marcus
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Graduate Could we test graviton leakage with Earth-Moon laser ranging?
- Dorje
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Graduate Why no 'Big Crunch' a femtosecond after Big Bang ?
- fastartcee
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Graduate Difference between flare, CME and SPEs
- Jairo
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Graduate What is the connection between dark energy and dark matter?
- gathrey
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High School Astronomy is the oldest of the physical sciences
- chesterdaly
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Graduate What does it mean for the universe to be "flat"?
- UrbanXrisis
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SciAm Lineweaver cosmology article, March issue
- marcus
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Graduate Do 3D and 4D Universes Share the Same Geometry?
- Gold Barz
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Graduate How Do Scientists Determine Exoplanet Characteristics from Radial Velocity Data?
- Dracovich
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Graduate What is the upper and lower bound for reionization?
- wolram
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Graduate Several moons in the Saturn system
- Nereid
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Graduate Local Pristine Primordial Material
- Mad Arab
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Undergrad What temperature heats accreted gas emitting 10 keV X-rays?
- tony873004
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Undergrad Will an Astronaut Float at the Positional Median Between Earth and Moon?
- evthis
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Graduate How do Gravitons escape from a Black Hole?
- moving finger
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Graduate Is redshift 1.4 really record-breaking for galaxy XMMU J2235.3-2557?
- marcus
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Will NASA's Future Missions Be Impacted by Funding Challenges?
- Zach_C
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Stargazing Long-exposure mod for the quickcam
- russ_watters
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Undergrad Can Black Holes Alter the Movement of the Universe Through Light Bending?
- taeth
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Graduate Why is our galaxy's dark matter distribution non-spherical?
- magickingdl
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High School Brightest Explosion Ever Observed
- Astronuc
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What color would the end star be if a red star and a blue star collided?
- Eridanus1
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High School How is the Distance Between Stars Measured?
- funkwort
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Undergrad Why Do Globular Clusters Maintain Their Shape Over Billions of Years?
- Eridanus1
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Graduate Initial condition of the restricted problem of three bodies
- Heimdall
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Graduate Do black holes and the Big Bang singularity both have maximum entropy?
- kirovman
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Graduate Weyl Curvature Hypothesis and entropy
- ryokan
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Graduate What is the significance of the recently discovered nearby newborn galaxies?
- hellfire
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Undergrad How Can You Measure Star Distances Using Ancient Astronomical Techniques?
- Garret
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Graduate Higgs ocean, dark energy and quantum fluctuations: related manifestations?
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Finding total orbital energy from gravitational force
- DB
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Undergrad Can matter be converted to energy and converted back?
- Daark Nova
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Graduate Could Other Universes Fine-Tune Their Own Inhabitants?
- Gold Barz
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Graduate What is the latest research on CMB anisotropy and its implications?
- Chronos
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Cosmology: Sales Pitch or Science?
- wolram
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Graduate Crisis in Cosmology: CCC-I Conference Challenges Observations
- brightstar2005
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Sending your name to Pluto on NASA's spacecraft
- Andromeda321
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Graduate Spontaneous inflation and the origin of the arrow of time
- Chronos
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Undergrad Is there a maximum mass limit for stars in the universe?
- DB
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Graduate Why do books describe the universe as a torus or saddle?
- touqra
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Undergrad Can we please look for 'New Earth' at Alpha Centauri?
- Eridanus1
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Graduate Black holes bend light the wrong way
- wolram
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Undergrad Calculating the Centre of Mass in a 2-Body System
- davehatton01
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Can the Moon's rotation be affected by Earth's tides?
- willib
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Graduate New MOND Papers: Jacob Bekenstein’s TeVeS Breakthrough
- ohwilleke
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Graduate Is There Meaning in an Empty Universe?
- honestrosewater
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Interstellar propulsion island hopping the Oort cloud
- Eridanus1
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High School Can moons have moons in our solar system?
- JV
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Graduate Why are the theoretical and measured sizes/ages of the universe so similar?
- warpsmith
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Graduate Help with Orbit Sim: 2-Body Anomalous Motion Problem
- check
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Graduate What are gravitational waves and where do they come from?
- billy_boy_999
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Undergrad A body intermediate to stars and galaxies
- Loren Booda
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High School What makes the border of the universe and can it change?
- whatzzupboy
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Undergrad How is exoplanet mass found by astrometry?
- physkid
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Graduate The Moon and the Anthrorpic Principle
- ion
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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?
- DanReit
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Graduate Solving the Energy Crisis on a Methane-Rich Planet
- marcus
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Graduate Is There a Significant Shift in the Triple-Alpha Process?
- Labguy
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Graduate Cosmological Principle: Finite or Finiteless Universe?
- touqra
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Undergrad Let's think crack u'r brain with this qn.
- gunblaze
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Undergrad Is the Andromeda Galaxy going to collide with the Milky Way?
- tony873004
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Graduate Could S Meson Explain Dark Matter?
- selfAdjoint
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High School Pluto's discovery and 75-year history
- Orion1
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Graduate Average luminosity of night sky vs frequency
- turbo
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High School How much radiation comes in contact with the martian surface?
- Imparcticle
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Graduate Pioneer anomaly and topological phase defects of light
- wolram
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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
- wolram
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Graduate Traveling to different Universes?
- Silverbackman
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Graduate Why Does the Solar System's Angular Momentum Distribution Appear Anomalous?
- marley.wannabee
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Have Scientists Discovered the Smallest Exoplanet Yet?
- marlon
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Graduate What is the significance of being in the eigenspace of Christ?
- arildno
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Habitable Star Systems: Where Can We Find Maggie Turnbull's Catalogue?
- Mean-Hippy
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