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Would the big bang theory be found guilty or innocent in court?

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Graduate Can Type III civilizations manipulate matter at the atomic scale?

  • 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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Undergrad Evidence against existence of dark matter?

  • mooberrymarz
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High School Space Ship One (SS1): Breaking the Sound Barrier and Making History

  • Orion1
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Is Vega visible from Atlanta now?

  • syano
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SpaceShipOne reached 100 km this morning

  • marcus
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Private Rocket Plane Makes Historic Space Flight

  • Miles
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Undergrad Is the Red Shift of Distant Stars Really Due to Cosmic Expansion?

  • jfxjmn
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High School If the Earth was a giant metal cube..

  • smithpa9
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Graduate Nonspecialist qstns:ie, massless=no space?

  • mercmisfire
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High School What is the nearest supernova candidate (maybe Betelguese?)

  • RAD4921
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Graduate How gravity arises from spacetime curvature?

  • weio
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High School What was the bright flash I saw in the sky last night?

  • check
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Graduate What happens to a star in orbit around a black hole?

  • force5
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Undergrad Mass vs. orbital distance for 120 detected exoplanets

  • Janus
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Undergrad What keeps Sedna and other distant objects bound to the solar system?

  • Echo 6 Sierra
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Graduate Intergalactic doldrums - flotsam and jetsam

  • Loren Booda
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High School What type of binary star is held together by gravity and appears double?

  • nautica
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Undergrad Are there advantages to launching space missions from the Arctic/North Pole?

  • Arctic Fox
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High School Universe Expansion: How Space is Created

  • decibel
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Graduate Move something about the size of the ISS

  • MonstersFromTheId
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High School What fraction of the universe is made of normal matter?

  • wolram
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Graduate Is Spacetime a Dynamic Entity Influenced by Motion and Antimatter?

  • Antonio Lao
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Graduate Can the Space-Buoy Determine Universal Rest in a Relativistic Inertial Frame?

  • ram1024
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Graduate Is Cosmos Homogeneous, Isotropic ?

  • Antonio Lao
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Graduate Is the Universe Bound by the Laws of Conservation?

  • Mikado
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Kerry's vision for the space program

  • Phobos
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Undergrad Effect of Antarctic ice melt on Earth's orbit and rotation

  • scott_sieger
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Graduate Is Quantizing Spacetime Possible According to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

  • Antonio Lao
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Graduate Universe as a simple harmonic oscillator

  • kurious
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Graduate Can Time and Space has Duality ?

  • Antonio Lao
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Whatever happened to the Mars rovers?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Two Big Bang Theory Vs Other Theories

  • Riverrobert
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Undergrad Evaluate my brand new program satelite motion around earth

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Undergrad Challenges of Life on Extra-Solar Planets: A Review of Latest Findings

  • nautica
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High School Why does Venus appear to change direction during its transit across the sun?

  • waynet
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Graduate Can Zero Point Energy Explain the Cyclical Universe?

  • sol2
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Graduate Shapiro Effect and Gravitational Lensing

  • shrumeo
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Graduate Gravity and Energy Conservation in Stars: Understanding Gravitational Collapse

  • bootsam
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High School How much fuel does cassini have on board?

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High School Distance between Mu Leporis and Nihal for science fiction

  • MonstersFromTheId
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Graduate Can We ever Hear Gravity's Music ?

  • Antonio Lao
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Undergrad Do different dating techniques give conflicting ages for Earth and the universe?

  • Tom McCurdy
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Undergrad Mathematical methods used by Halley and Horrocks for Venus transits

  • Adrian Baker
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Graduate How important/fundamental is self-similarity in cosmic structure?

  • setAI
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Undergrad How did Voyager gravity assists work with incomplete planetary data?

  • one_raven
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Undergrad How Does Gravity and Center Influence Orbit in Astro-Physics?

  • Moonrat
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Graduate Detailed Mass-Luminosity Relation for Main Sequence Stars

  • Jenab
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Graduate Oscillating universe and harmonic oscillator

  • kurious
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Graduate Did a Pre-Big Bang Species Cause the Big Bang Theory?

  • Plagosus
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Graduate PARALLEL WORLDS to hit shelves in OCT.

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Graduate Mars Exploration-is Human Settlement Possible?

  • Dr. Raj Baldev
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Undergrad Odd Black Hole Defies Explanation : space.com

  • Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Most complex extraterrestrial molecule

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Temp increase of sun from photosphere to corona

  • nautica
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Graduate Red Shift caused by space itself ?

  • nigel johnstone
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Graduate Analytical approach to minimum distance between elliptical orbits

  • Coelum
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Transit of Venus - Witnessed by Excited Friends on a Hazy Day

  • Tom McCurdy
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Stargazing What's Happening for the June 8th Eclipse of Venus?

  • Mark
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Conjunction of Venus and Sun a rare event

  • Kerrie
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Graduate How Did Time Begin After the Big Bang?

  • europium
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Graduate Question-can a neutron star shed mass?

  • Duane M
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Graduate Where does energy go when created in the universe?

  • Pattielli
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Graduate Modeling a Star: Struggling with Newton-Raphson Technique

  • mccizmt2
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High School What periodic motion is used as a reference

  • Lindseynh
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Graduate How does a single photon get redshifted by universal expansion?

  • Alamino
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Graduate Is Our Understanding of Gravity and Entropy Incomplete?

  • Chronos
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Graduate What happened Before the Big Bang

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Graduate Orientation of virtual particle pairs in local fields?

  • turbo
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Graduate Does Zero Point Energy Influence Gravitational Effects in Space?

  • techwonder
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Graduate Size of universe and uncertainty principle

  • kurious
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High School How fast is earth moving trough space?

  • tumor
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Undergrad Where can I find comprehensive formulas for Celestial Mechanics?

  • Ravine
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High School Why do all the planets orbit the sun?

  • repugno
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Undergrad How Do I Convert the Gravitational Constant to Pixels?

  • devil
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Graduate Analogous Hawking Radiation from Astrophysical Black Hole Accretion

  • 25
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Graduate Can Dark Energy Influence the Minimum Unit of Space in the Universe?

  • kurious
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Undergrad Can both planets in a binary system sustain life?

  • Nibles
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High School Can an Asteroid Really Destroy Earth in 800 Years?

  • Razi Abid
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Graduate How the calculated total velocity derived ?

  • Venus50
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Undergrad Is redshift the only evidence for cosmic expansion?

  • shrumeo
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Undergrad A simple explination of why clocks move faster in space

  • Mad_Gouki
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Stargazing Spitzer Telescope spies 'youngest' planet

  • pelastration
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Graduate What happens when you turn on the light in a simple thought experiment?

  • force5
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Undergrad What Would a Martian Calendar Look Like for Well-Established Colonies?

  • MonstersFromTheId
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High School Can daytime weather predict clear nights for stargazing?

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Graduate Superconductive Planck/Scale Space

  • PFanalog57
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Undergrad Calculate the gravitational field of a object

  • taylordnz
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High School When will the stars die out?

  • Nec
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Graduate Have Cosmologists Determined the Total Mass of the Universe?

  • Antonio Lao
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Undergrad What are the Characteristics of Short Gamma Ray Bursts?

  • cangus
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Graduate Entering the Sphere of Influence

  • Venus50
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Graduate Why did Pioneer 10 have an anomalous acceleration toward the Sun?

  • kurious
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Graduate And the question remains, is our Universe really a Hologram?

  • startic84
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Undergrad Understanding Galaxy Formation and the Factors Influencing Their Size

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Graduate Virtual particles and cosmological expansion

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