Join in expert discussion on the topics of Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. This may include discussion on celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. Mainstream science only.
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Would the big bang theory be found guilty or innocent in court?
- bozo the clown
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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 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?
- fbsthreads
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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.
- Ebe
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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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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
- Filter
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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?
- Eh
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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
- Vast
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Graduate Virtual particles and cosmological expansion
- turbo
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