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Graduate Gravitational Energy: Why Negative?
- ben_jamin
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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
- Wave's_Hand_Particle
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Graduate Testing cosmology, without assuming GR?
- Nereid
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Graduate Do the colors in the Ring Nebula come from synchrotron radiation and blueshift?
- DB
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Undergrad Do solar cycles cause Earth's magnetic reversals?
- |2eason
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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
- Heimdall
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Undergrad Why did the Big Bang happen in the first place?
- afton
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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?
- afton
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Why don't we hear about asteroid impact risks like we hear about celebrity gossip?
- Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Why do we assume infinite space in cosmological models?
- meemoe_uk
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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
- Orion1
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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?
- godzilla7
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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
- wolram
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Undergrad What is the concept of concentrated mass?
- DB
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Consensus: Streak in Image an Insect
- Andromeda321
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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
- woodysooner
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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
- Glenn
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Possible Meteor Explosion Near Jakarta Causes Loud Noise, No Injuries Reported
- Orion1
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Graduate Does Earth's motion through space affect molecular measurements and vacuum experiments?
- cronxeh
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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?
- thephy
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Graduate Can Black Holes Compute Universes?
- chaoszen
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Graduate Why is cosmic background radiation evidence for the Big Bang?
- celal777
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Is There a Clear Explanation for A-Consciousness?
- RAD4921
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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
- walkera
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Undergrad Why are H- ions always less abundant than H II ions in a gas?
- goleafsgo113
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Graduate Dark Matter Detection: Controversy Grows
- Chronos
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Graduate Could Binary Planetary Systems Exist with Earth-Sized Bodies?
- Muon12
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Graduate Is New Galaxy Formation Possible at the Edge of the Expanding Universe?
- UrbanXrisis
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Graduate Virtual Pairs and the Fate of the Universe
- Hellburner
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Graduate Does Dark Matter's Interaction with Gravity Prevent it from Forming Black Holes?
- MisterBig
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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?
- turbo
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High School Why does the earth rotate around its
- Falnom
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New comet has brightened to naked-eye visibility
- turbo
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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?
- Rocky_Road
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Graduate Does the gravity constant change?
- Rader
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Graduate Could hot dark matter be cold dark matter?
- Rothiemurchus
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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?
- omicron
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Graduate ZPE energy levels and cosmology.
- turbo
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Best astronomy books and magazines
- kurtlau
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Graduate Most energetic galaxy cluster merger imaged by X-ray observatory
- meteor
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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?
- UrbanXrisis
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How to estimate star's mass without gravitation constant?
- smm
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Undergrad Could Mars Bring Deadly Bugs to Earth?
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Does Phase Space Explain Entropy?
- celal777
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High School Why does NASA search for water on Mars if alien life might not need it?
- primal schemer
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Graduate Space Expansion from Dark Matter
- yanniru
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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?
- orange
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Graduate Doppler Effect and Harmful Radiation
- orange
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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?
- meteor
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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?
- Gara
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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
- rhia
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Graduate How Many Orbits Does a Solar Sail Need to Reach the Moon?
- IcedB
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Congrats to All Gurus - PF Forum Appreciation
- marcus
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Undergrad Why can you see white through H-alpha filter?
- smithpa9
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Is Saturn's Surface as Beautiful as it Looks in the Latest Cassini Image?
- s3nn0c
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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?
- CeeAnne
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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?
- z-component
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Graduate Relation between quantum field theory, relativity and the cosmological constant
- somy
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Graduate Will the Universe Have a New Beginning?
- wolram
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Undergrad Inverse Square Law - Is It Valid for Quasars?
- damoclark
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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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