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Graduate The Mystery of the Universe's Origin

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Undergrad Can Things Really Escape Black Holes?

  • Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Theories of The Universe (and Reality)

  • Brennen
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Hawking Solves Black Hole Mystery

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Graduate Black hole might crunch the many planets into marble-sized spheres

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Graduate Are We Living in a Subuniverse Within a Multiverse?

  • Imparcticle
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High School What Is Cosmology and How Does It Relate to the Speed of Light?

  • somy
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Graduate Is All Dark Energy Essentially Space?

  • kurious
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Graduate Is the Singularity of a Black Hole Real or Theoretical?

  • kurious
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Graduate Proof that gravity constant G = (3/4)(H^2)/[4(pi)(density)e^3]

  • Nigel
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Graduate Gravity mechanism predicts G to within 1.7%

  • Nigel
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Stargazing What Are Cool Research Ideas for a School Radio Telescope Project?

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Graduate Is Life an Anti-Entropic Zone in the Fabric of Space/Time?

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Graduate Black holes and the Chandrasekhar limit

  • Nenad
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Graduate Mass and Curved Space: A Question

  • mee
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Graduate Matter distorts dark energy to create space-time

  • kurious
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Graduate Do Neutrinos Escape Black Holes Unscathed?

  • Yojimbo
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Graduate Is the Universe Truly Infinite and Expanding?

  • misanthropist
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Graduate What if dimensions have different sizes and expand at different rates?

  • Nacho
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Graduate Moving a spaceship through the aether

  • kurious
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Astronomy Riddle: Stand on the Sphere

  • kathkath
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Graduate Dark Energy & Expansionary Phase

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Undergrad Hyperbolic interplanetary transfer

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Graduate Is the Universe Collapsing or Expanding?

  • pnjabiloafer
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Graduate Self Creation Cosmology - a new gravitational theory

  • Garth
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Graduate Is the Universe Formed from a Giant Star and Black Hole?

  • gunblaze
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What planet/moon would you most like to explore?

  • Entropy
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Graduate After star explodes it may turn into BH

  • dedaNoe
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Graduate Naked Singularity: Is Event Horizon Observed or Hypothetical?

  • wolram
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Graduate Two black holes and the event horizon

  • ExecNight
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Graduate LUNA Results Suggest Really Old Stars Exist Despite Popular Models

  • shrumeo
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High School Discover the Fascinating Origins of Earth's Magnetic Field

  • alanveron
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Graduate Dark energy and oscillating universe?

  • kurious
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Graduate Is the Redshift of Distant Objects Due to Expansion or Gravitational Effects?

  • turbo
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High School Do Black Holes Rotate and Explode?

  • munky99999
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Graduate Do black holes have any translational motion?

  • Antonio Lao
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Undergrad Does the Sun's Changing Mass Affect Its Gravitational Pull on the Solar System?

  • bdkeenan00
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Undergrad What Determines the Positioning of Protons and Electrons in the Van Allen Belts?

  • darkar
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High School Space probe transmiting a pic to Eart

  • bozo the clown
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Graduate How Can We Ever Find Antigravity ?

  • Antonio Lao
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Undergrad What Makes Abell 2029 the Largest Known Galaxy in the Universe?

  • Orion1
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Undergrad Why are planetary systems almost complanary?

  • dedaNoe
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Graduate A 30 year test of General Relativity

  • marcus
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Graduate João Magueijo & John Moffat's Variable Light Speed Theory: Is It Legit?

  • shrumeo
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Undergrad Why Does the Universe Appear Redder Than Expected?

  • Entropy
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Graduate Do dimensions apply in a universe without a center and shape?

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Undergrad How Does the Earth's Magnetic Field Affect Communication Systems?

  • alanveron
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High School Pull of Gravity.Where it starts?

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Undergrad How they steered cassini through saturns rings

  • bozo the clown
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High School How come the moon is circling the earth?

  • dedaNoe
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Mysterious 10th Planet Discovered Beyond Pluto

  • turin
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Undergrad Methane Cloud Found at Titan's South Pole

  • Nommos Prime (Dogon)
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High School Did the Cassini-Huygens Mission Discover New Moons Around Saturn?

  • Orion1
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High School Why can't we see Venus at night but at dawn and dusk?

  • touqra
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Beagles 3 & 4 due for 2007 Launch

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Graduate Antimatter and Antigravity Connected ?

  • Antonio Lao
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Graduate Bell correlation between horizons

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Can a Theory of Everything Exist Without Understanding the State of Nothing?

  • JulianHeawood
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Undergrad WMAP has conclusively proven an expanding universe.

  • Chronos
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of the Accelerating Universe

  • Mike2
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Undergrad Can Infinite Density in Black Holes Imply Infinite Mass?

  • taylordnz
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Graduate Could Misunderstood Gravity Explain Dark Matter?

  • billy_boy_999
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Graduate Proof that there is no missing/dark matter

  • Nigel
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Undergrad Geostationary Orbit: Why Equatorial Plane?

  • darkar
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Living Universe: The Fact We All Know - Jack

  • RAD4921
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Graduate Plane of Perspective: Michio - Proving Which Plane is Right

  • north
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Did We Go to the Moon? | People's Thoughts

  • Nenad
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Interactive Orbital Mechanics Simulation with Joystick Control

  • check
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Mike Melvill and Burt Rutan on the Tonight Show

  • Dagenais
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Undergrad How Can I Break Into the Space Industry?

  • chroot
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Graduate Could Gravity Be an Effect of Mass Inertia in an Accelerating Universe?

  • Pietro
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Graduate Could Dark Energy Be Explained by Gravitons?

  • kurious
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Graduate What Are the Fundamental Questions About the Big Bang Theory?

  • JulianHeawood
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Graduate Massive Black Hole Stumps Researchers

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate The 3-Dimensional/4-Dimensional Hypotheisis Of The Universe

  • dperez3894
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Undergrad Could the age of the universe be older than we thought?

  • Rajendra_Vaidya
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Graduate 9 Space Dimensions 2 Time Dimensions

  • woodysooner
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How to Find HST Images: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

  • turbo
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Graduate We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide?

  • Math Is Hard
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Graduate Topological Defects in Cosmology: Research Progress

  • touqra
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Graduate Why does Expanding Space have a 2 to 1 Ratio with Contracting Space?

  • Olias
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High School Effect of removing helmet in space?

  • Molydood
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Is the Big Bang Running Out of Steam?

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High School Supermassive Black Hole Sings "BOOM" in B Flat

  • Adam
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Graduate Are we entering an era of 'Penalty Shoot Out' for inflation?

  • Olias
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Graduate What has the initial NOTHING turned into?

  • dedaNoe
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Undergrad A question about the sun and blackbody

  • wenty
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High School Are There Stunning Images of Suns Similar to Ours in Space?

  • haribol
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High School Cosmos vs Universe: What's the Difference?

  • force5
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Where Should I Begin in Astrology and Astronomy?

  • Shane
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Graduate Could Io Trigger a Supernova Impact on Earth?

  • big-egg
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Graduate Can We Hear the Early Universe's 'Music'?

  • Math Is Hard
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Graduate Black Hole Radiation: What You Need to Know

  • RAD4921
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Graduate He wrote a book called Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

  • Tom McCurdy
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Big Bang Theory Court Case: Guilty or Innocent?

  • bozo the clown
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Graduate Type I, II, & III Civilizations: Reaching for the Stars

  • Whitestar
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Graduate Can General Relativity Explain the Universe's Expansion and Time?

  • Pietro
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Undergrad What Triggers Hydrazine Decomposition in Space?

  • edtman
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Undergrad What happens to stars smaller than ours?

  • Cheman
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Undergrad What Causes Planetary Nebulae to Form?

  • Cheman
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