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Graduate Is the Particle Horizon Calculation Affected by Inflation?

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High School Why do stars look like they have points when viewed from Earth?

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Graduate Can Planck Time Explain the Age of the Universe?

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Graduate Is There an Equivalence Between Fundamental Forces and Spacetime Geometry?

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Undergrad Does an infinite universe effect an infinite outlook?

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Undergrad Does Earth's Size Affect Your Weight?

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High School How Was the Parsec Calculated?

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Undergrad Educational value of going through a Hoagland webpage?

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Graduate Can Black Holes Increase Their Mass According to Remote Observers?

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Graduate Can we tap into dark energy and use it?

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Undergrad Expanding universe and absolute zero

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Graduate Two Big Bang theory and early star formation

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Graduate Accelerated expansion and its rate

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Gravity Probe B went up at 9:57 AM today

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Graduate Could There Have Been Two Big Bangs?

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Undergrad Calculating Solar Sail Size for Propulsion Against Sun's Gravitational Force

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High School Is the Oort Cloud confirmed or still hypothetical?

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High School Arguments against the Big Bang theory

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Graduate Ultra Deep Field raises questions

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Graduate Is information lost in a black hole?

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Graduate Hand motion through curled dimensions in string theory

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Graduate How Do We Differentiate Between Relativity and Doppler Redshift?

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Is there a Multiverse of Alternate Universes?

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Graduate Gzk paradox and expanding universe

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Undergrad Energy and the end of the universe.

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High School Why are O and B class stars so rare if they form in current star-forming regions?

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Undergrad Is Jupiter Losing Its Spots?

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Graduate The Big Bang: Inside a Singularity

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Time and the Time Space Continuum

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Undergrad Do All Man-Made Solar Satellites Share the Same Orbit Orientation?

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Graduate Maximum force limit on quark radius and Big Bang singularity

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Graduate Galaxy 13 billion light-years away observed 750 million years after Big Bang

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Graduate Why is there no symmetry in space vs. time dimensions?

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Graduate Inflationary Theory. Absolute Vacume.

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Undergrad How Can Gravity Be Simulated for Space Travelers?

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Body as musical instrument and chakra alignment

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Graduate Is the Schwarzschild solution an approximation that invalidates black holes?

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Graduate Was the entire universe a Black Hole for many years?

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Object photographed by Mars rover

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Graduate Could the universe's large-scale shape match a Calabi-Yau manifold?

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Graduate Finite hyperbolic universe and large scale structure patterns

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Graduate Making a Black Hole Bomb: Exploiting Superradiant Scattering

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Graduate How do General Relativity and the concept of the graviton relate to each other?

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Undergrad Why do we believe ultra high energy cosmic rays come from supernovae?

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Unprecedented weaponization of space

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Graduate How is the density of a white dwarf star calculated?

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Undergrad What could we discover on Titan?

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Graduate Is Proxima Cen the nearest star?

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Undergrad Senate hearing on near-Earth object detection funding

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High School What is a cosmic accelerator?

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Graduate Origin of Matter and the Universe

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Graduate Interstellar Medium and Pulsars

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Undergrad Using an artificial bright flash to detect distant objects beyond Pluto

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Graduate Alpha does not vary with time - new study's stringent limits

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Could Sedna Be the Sumerian Red Planet?

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High School What Causes the Twinkling of Stars?

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Undergrad Age of universe compared to age of sun.

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Graduate Gravitational field of globular clusters ?

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High School Could the universe be expanding because matter is increasing?

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Graduate Did Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars Form Before Those in Galaxies?

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Undergrad Good astrophysics schools in california

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High School Technical name for 'day' on other planets

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Graduate What caused inflation in the big bang theory?

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Undergrad Why do celestial bodies orbit in such precise speeds and patterns?

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Did the Soviets create a space-baby?

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Graduate Energy requirements and mechanics of hyperspace travel for fiction

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Graduate Chaotic Milky Way and Dark Matter distribution

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Undergrad What is the cause of the mysterious blue band surrounding Jupiter?

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What Questions Were Asked at the Mars and Moon Meeting?

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Curious about Mars and the Moon? Ask away!

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Undergrad Book recommendations for celestial mechanics

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Graduate Where does the energy go when an object radiates gravitational waves?

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Graduate How does the scalar field in inflation theory cause expansion and supercooling?

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Graduate Would a collision between a black hole and dark matter be detectable?

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Undergrad If Today's Phoboday, this must be Mars.

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Graduate Matter Exceeding the Speed of Light

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Graduate Does Dr Kaku accept the Two Big Bangs theory?

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Graduate Can Spacetime Curvature change c ?

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Graduate Can photons escape a charged, spinning black hole?

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Graduate Accepted value for Omega of radiation energy density

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Graduate How are space and time related in the space-time ripple-nipple phenomenon?

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Have You Ever Seen the Green Flash?

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Stargazing Can the Hubble Space Telescope Really See 14.5 Billion Years into the Past?

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High School Methane on Mars could signal life [now]

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Graduate Alternate Explanations for Redshift in the Universe

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Did Tycho Brahe name the supernova he observed in 1572?

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Radio search for ET draws a blank

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Undergrad Should we terraform Mars if life already exists there?

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High School Supernova could wipe out all life on earth ?

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How do the lava flows on Venus reach such incredible lengths?

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Graduate What does launch angle to the vertical mean for a satellite interception problem?

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Undergrad What triggers gravitational collapse in a gas cloud?

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Graduate Gravity inside a hollowed-out planet with a thick crust

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High School NASA Announces Evidence of Briny Water on Ancient Mars - Implications for Life

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Is the Universe a Giant Hex Code Waiting to be Edited?

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Graduate US military plans for space-based weapons

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High School Working on a dossier project for my Java class

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Graduate How realistic is the concept of wormholes for space travel?

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Graduate Is The Speed Of Light Slowing Down ?

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