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Graduate Gravitational Energy: Why Negative?

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Undergrad What happens when a pulsar dies?

  • Vale1219
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Will 2005 bring stunning images of the moon Titan?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Varying Expansion Rates for Solar System

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Graduate Testing cosmology, without assuming GR?

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Undergrad Do solar cycles cause Earth's magnetic reversals?

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High School Did Comet Machholz Lack a Visible Tail?

  • Physicsisfun2005
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The bermuda triangle is a black hole?

  • Sabine
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Graduate N-body simulation test with sun, earth and moon

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Undergrad Why did the Big Bang happen in the first place?

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Where are the Best Spots to View the Milky Way in California?

  • Math Is Hard
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High School Cause of Gravity: How Does It Work?

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Graduate Why do we assume infinite space in cosmological models?

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Graduate Why do patterns exist in the universe?

  • connect
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Undergrad Huygens probe findings on Titan's atmosphere

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Stargazing Is it Possible for All Planets to Line Up?

  • The Bob
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Graduate Does IMAP's polarization data affect dark matter calculations?

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Undergrad Why Does Venus Rotate Differently?

  • Qyamat
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Undergrad Matter or Energy: Which Came First?

  • Qyamat
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Graduate Can we be tricked into thinking W=-1

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Undergrad What is the concept of concentrated mass?

  • DB
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Consensus: Streak in Image an Insect

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High School Do Planets Generate Their Own Light?

  • DB
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Graduate Idea find black holes using grav. lensing

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Graduate Amit Goswami's The Self Aware Universe

  • roamer
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Graduate Gas Giant Ring Collapse Theory for Rocky Planet Formation

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Undergrad Astronomers observe some galaxy

  • Kamataat
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Undergrad 10^6 X stronger than Earth¹s lightning: Some of Cassini's findings discussed

  • Ivan Seeking
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NOVA special on String/cosmology

  • turbo
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What is the Role of Subspace in Sci-Fi Universes?

  • revan
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Star encounter 4 billion years ago may have shaped solar system's edge

  • meteor
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Graduate What is the motion of a singularity

  • Terry Giblin
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High School What is zeeman and stark effects?

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Graduate Can Black Holes Compute Universes?

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Graduate Why is cosmic background radiation evidence for the Big Bang?

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Is There a Clear Explanation for A-Consciousness?

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Did You Spot Any Meteors Tonight?

  • marcus
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Graduate Advanced Civilizations Could Make SETI Signal Detection Impossible

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Little Black Holes: Dark Matter And Ball Lightning

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Is our galaxy in the centre of the universe?

  • wolram
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Stargazing Giant Magellan Telescope GMT Announcement

  • meteor
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Graduate Mass of Jupiter using as Many moons as Possible

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Undergrad Why are H- ions always less abundant than H II ions in a gas?

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Graduate Dark Matter Detection: Controversy Grows

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Graduate Could Binary Planetary Systems Exist with Earth-Sized Bodies?

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Graduate Is New Galaxy Formation Possible at the Edge of the Expanding Universe?

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Graduate Virtual Pairs and the Fate of the Universe

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Graduate Does Dark Matter's Interaction with Gravity Prevent it from Forming Black Holes?

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Graduate What Are the Codes for Stellar Astrophysics?

  • Astronuc
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Graduate Why was WMAP 2-year data delayed?

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High School Why does the earth rotate around its

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New comet has brightened to naked-eye visibility

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Graduate How are the galactic jets made in black holes?

  • UrbanXrisis
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High School Why doesn't the Sun have a stronger effect on tides?

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Graduate Does the gravity constant change?

  • Rader
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Graduate Could hot dark matter be cold dark matter?

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Graduate Galaxy rotation curves without dark matter using modified gravitational theory

  • marcus
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Graduate Why Are White Dwarfs Hot Despite Their High Density?

  • DB
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Undergrad What is the relationship between luminosity and magnitude in stars?

  • nobunaga84
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Stargazing Which is a better gift: a 60mm refractor or 10x50 binoculars?

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Graduate ZPE energy levels and cosmology.

  • turbo
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Best astronomy books and magazines

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Graduate Most energetic galaxy cluster merger imaged by X-ray observatory

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Undergrad Include Sun's Diameter in Star Distance Measurement?

  • DB
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Graduate Can White Holes and Hawking Radiation Explain the Big Bang?

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How to estimate star's mass without gravitation constant?

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Undergrad Could Mars Bring Deadly Bugs to Earth?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Does Phase Space Explain Entropy?

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High School Why does NASA search for water on Mars if alien life might not need it?

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Graduate Space Expansion from Dark Matter

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Graduate A question in Kepler's second and third laws.

  • pezzang
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First recorded image of a meteor impact on Earth

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Are Black Holes Truly Infinite in Mass and Energy?

  • ph_low
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Undergrad Why Do Stars Turn Red Giants as They Age?

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Graduate Doppler Effect and Harmful Radiation

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Graduate What cosmic events produce detectable gravitational waves?

  • RandallB
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Graduate What makes some gamma-ray bursts brighter than others?

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Stargazing Solar eclipses, total and annular

  • Labguy
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Graduate How Can Gravity Escape a Black Hole While Light Cannot?

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High School Why does a bight object like the sun have negative magnitude?

  • DB
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Undergrad Does nuclear fusion or fission power a star's core?

  • Rader
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Undergrad Sending space probes to other planets

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Graduate How Many Orbits Does a Solar Sail Need to Reach the Moon?

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Congrats to All Gurus - PF Forum Appreciation

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Undergrad Why can you see white through H-alpha filter?

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Graduate What are the 42 proposed mechanisms for baryogenesis according to this paper?

  • meteor
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Graduate What Type of Finite or Infinite Universe?

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High School Could aliens 22,000 lightyears away decode the 1974 Arecibo message to M13?

  • nymph
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Graduate What does a smaller cosmic quadrupole amplitude mean for CMBR photons?

  • Rothiemurchus
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Undergrad What Would Happen If the Moon Entered Earth's Atmosphere?

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Graduate Relation between quantum field theory, relativity and the cosmological constant

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Graduate Will the Universe Have a New Beginning?

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Undergrad Inverse Square Law - Is It Valid for Quasars?

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High School How do nebulas form stars and solar systems?

  • DB
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High School Why is Pluto classified as a dwarf planet if it orbits with Charon?

  • Loren Booda
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