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Graduate Quantized space-time and redshift.

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Graduate Does a Black Hole Have a Greater Gravitational Field Than Its Original Star?

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High School Why do Earth, Moon, and Venus have different numbers of craters?

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Graduate Has Gravity Probe B been a waste of money?

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Undergrad Space vs Energy: Can Volume Exist Without Energy?

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Graduate Does Meson Exchange Cease in Neutron Stars at Sub-Femtometer Distances?

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Graduate Rubber Sheet, Heavy Sphere & Gravity: Explained

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Graduate Is Hawking’s new idea on Black Hole original or adopted?

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High School Could This Be the First Photo of an Extrasolar Planet?

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Graduate Gravity constant G = 3(H^2)/[4pi(e^3)ρ].

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Graduate Alternate dimensions or Universes

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High School Do nearby stars have an effect on the Sun and its planets?

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Graduate No, this is not a question for biologists.

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Graduate Will New Objects Appear in the Sky as Time Passes?

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Graduate The Sun's X-file Under The Spotlight

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Graduate The Infinite Universe Expands is Inaccurate

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Graduate CIPA - a fantastic Zero Point Energy website

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Graduate How Does Infinity Become Smaller? | Hawking

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Graduate Mystery of Dark Energy: Unravelling the GR Expansion of Universe

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Graduate Does the universe dance in forms?

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Graduate Was Space Present Before the Big Bang or Did It Expand with the Universe?

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High School Creating a VB6 Orbit Simulator: Tips & Advice

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Undergrad Are Cosmic Rays Particles or Radiation?

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Undergrad Universe Expansion Speed: Einstein's Theory Impacted?

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Undergrad Cosmic background radiation - alternative proposal

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What do you think will be the fate of the universe?

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Stargazing Did You Guide Your Moon Shot?

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High School What kinds of space rays are detectable on earth

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Undergrad What is the formula for calculating delta v for escape velocity?

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Graduate I've yet to understand the finite universe

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Undergrad Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing

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Undergrad Black Hole Implosion or Supernova Explosion - Which is More Powerful?

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Graduate Calculating The Event Horizon of a Supermassive Black Hole

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Undergrad Strange SETI Signal from ~1000 LY

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Graduate Could Quantum Gravity Predict a Long-Distance Invariant Scale?

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High School Planets Orbit Sun: Why Same Direction?

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Undergrad How Fast Is the Milky Way Moving Relative to the Cosmic Background Radiation?

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Undergrad Could Geostationary Satellites End Up Gathering Over the Indian Ocean?

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Graduate Is there a mechanism for reproducing universes?

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Graduate Could Sedna be a trapped rogue planet

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Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away

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Undergrad Elliptical Orbits: How They Work & Math Behind Them

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Graduate Star formation and distribution in spiral galaxies

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Graduate Is the Orion Trapezium Exploded from a Pre-Stellar Body?

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Undergrad Why is gravity always attractive?

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Graduate Flat geodesics mediate spacetime

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Undergrad Elliptical Orbits: Simple Explination & Gaining Energy

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High School Possible terrestrial extrasolar planet found

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High School Question: Jupiter and Saturn at 200x?

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High School What is Dark Energy? | Learn About Universe

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Graduate Entropy of a Star: Calculating Sun & Neutron Stars

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Graduate Is Our Universe Just One Bubble in a Multiverse?

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Graduate Hyperbolic, Parabolic or Elliptical Orbit?

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Fate Of Universe - Hindus, Buddhists & Mayans Right?

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High School You Are the Centre of the Universe

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High School Expert Help on Understanding Seasons with Perpendicular Earth's Axis

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Graduate Should PF Have a Separate Quantum Gravity Forum?

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Stargazing What Telescope Should I Buy Under $700?

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Graduate Curved or Flat? Decoding the Distance Measurements in Space

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Undergrad Questions About Black Holes - Answers for Non-Physics Students

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Graduate Doubts and Unease: Physics Articles Troubling Ben

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Graduate The Big Leak, Universe Equilibrium, Time

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Graduate Celestial Die Hards: Escape Velocity at 1 Planck Length

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Undergrad Is the Parallax Method Still the Most Widely Used for Measuring Star Distances?

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High School Weightlessness in the Center of The Earth?

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Graduate Your weight on a Space Elevator ?

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Stargazing Looked through a telescope for the first time

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Undergrad Why Do Variable Stars Like R Hydra Exhibit Unique Color Changes?

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Graduate Can dark energy prevent neutron stars from collapsing into black holes?

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Graduate Unruh: Loop Quantum Cosmology paper (new)

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Burning Man 2004- The Vault of Heaven

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Searching for Aliens: Are We Alone in the Universe?

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Graduate Is G truly a constant in the equation F(M,m,r)=GMm/rr?

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Graduate QG plasma and gamma ray bursters

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Graduate Neutron Star Properties: Density, Pressure, and Acoustical Velocity

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High School What is Dark Matter and is it a reputable concept in astronomy and cosmology?

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Graduate Are there multiple theories for the origin of dark matter and dark energy?

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Undergrad Why Does Gamma Ray Take 1M Years to Reach Star Surface?

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Undergrad Is the Moon's Gravity Calculation Correct?

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Graduate On the general curvature of space.

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Graduate Does Universe Expansion Influence Galaxy Clustering?

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High School Why do Mercury and our Moon not spin?

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Graduate Origin of Cosmic Rays and GRB (new paper by A.Dar)

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Stargazing Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope Image Quality - Karl's Questions

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High School What Does Newton's Gravitation Constant Represent?

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Graduate Creation, Re-Creation and re-Generation of The Universe

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Graduate Is MOND Valid in Describing Universal Expansion Beyond 10^26 Metres?

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Graduate The Denouement of Blue Supergiants

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Undergrad Formula for sunset/rise times, moonrise/set and phases

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Graduate Expansion/contraction same thing?

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Graduate Baez on Dark Energy vs Cos.Const.

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Undergrad Doppler Effect: Does Light Obey the Rule?

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Graduate What is the significance of the Chandrasekhar boundary in neutron star research?

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Graduate Three Dimensional Space in the Forth Dimension

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Graduate Expanding & Contracting Universe: Black Hole Integration?

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High School The Solar Phenomena: Prominences, Flares, and CMEs

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Graduate Everything you wanted to know about Dark Matter

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Graduate The Origin of the Universe: Reexamining the Big Bang Theory

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High School Why does light travel at light speed?

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