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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Actually a White Hole?

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Graduate New paper on the cosmological constant

  • phyzguy
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High School Radiation shielding and redirecting

  • sillls
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High School The Mysterious Shape of Jupiter: Why Gas Planets Stay Spherical

  • timothychoi
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High School Does gravity become repulsive in a shrinking universe?

  • cmb
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High School Intensity of Spherical Shell of Stars

  • Kelli Van Brunt
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Undergrad I computing the CMB Damping Tail

  • Quarkly
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Graduate Anisotropic Universe and Friedmann Equations

  • member 657093
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High School Which rate of Universe expansion are we currently using?

  • HankDorsett
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High School What are the maximum masses of White Dwarves and of Neutron stars?

  • Cerenkov
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Undergrad Were paths of Voyager craft lucky to get out of the heliosphere?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Is the total energy of the observable universe constant?

  • cmb
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Graduate Future of the electron neutrino mass limits

  • exponent137
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High School Looking for opinions on YouTube Fermilab videos

  • HankDorsett
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Undergrad Europa Clipper Interplanetary Mission

  • rootone
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Undergrad Relationship between collision and relaxation

  • Astroiaco
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High School Distance traveled by light accounting for expansion

  • etotheipi
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Undergrad New measurement of the Hubble Parameter

  • windy miller
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Graduate Gas around the black hole of galaxy M87

  • Olias
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Undergrad "It from Bit" and the multiverse?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Universe rate of expansion: speeding up or slowing down?

  • CosmologyHobbyist
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Undergrad Distance using Cepheid variables

  • Phigla
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High School Rate of the expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang

  • HankDorsett
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If you could see gravity what do you think it would it look like?

  • jt3213
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Undergrad Solving the Horizon Problem: 1 Source or 105?

  • QuarkDecay
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High School Is the Gamma Ray Burst Diameter Wide Enough to Engulf Our Solar System?

  • mieral
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High School The Physics of a Black Hole Merger: What Happens to Mass?

  • beamthegreat
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Undergrad Is there a radial gradient of redshifts within individual galaxies?

  • hkyriazi
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Undergrad Why are planets visible in a telescope in the daylight?

  • truffaldino
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Undergrad Did Wheeler consider Carter's anthropic multiverse?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Does Spatial Curvature Falsify Eternal Inflation?

  • windy miller
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High School Our universe was connected to another universe?

  • ElliotSmith
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Undergrad Discrepancy in Hubble's "constant" and its implications

  • Phys12
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Graduate Equilibrium point of matter and radiation density

  • QuarkDecay
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High School Questions about cosmic background radiation

  • HankDorsett
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High School What is the size of the observable Universe?

  • HankDorsett
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High School Age of the Universe at the recombination?

  • mbond
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High School Age of the Universe vs Age of the Stars

  • Benfield
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Undergrad Any direct measure of Universe expansion via galaxy subtended angles?

  • hkyriazi
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Graduate Part of the Hubble discrepancy can be explained by local underdensity

  • phyzguy
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Graduate The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project

  • alberto91
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Undergrad Deflect Asteroid w/ Collisions: Calculating Theta & MJ Interractions

  • dedocta
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High School How to calculate a star's luminosity/radius

  • Bipo10
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Graduate Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Models

  • QuarkDecay
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Undergrad The Symmetry of Angular Momentum Conservation

  • Alfredo Tifi
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Undergrad CMBR & Flatness: Mapping Universe Flatness?

  • Ranku
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Stargazing Two White Dwarfs in a seven minute mutual orbit

  • diogenesNY
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High School Resources to help understand black holes

  • HankDorsett
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Graduate Is the Hubble Constant Truly Constant?

  • ea251ah
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High School Is the Instantaneous Expansion of Space-Time Possible?

  • StuartL
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Undergrad Did Planet 9 and Neptune Cause Uranus' Tilt?

  • bbbl67
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High School Is the Milky Way Warped? New 3D Map Reveals Surprising Findings

  • jedishrfu
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Undergrad What is Earth's future warming due to the Sun's increasing luminosity?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad On Hubble's constant, the expansion of the Universe and vacuum energy

  • Cathr
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Undergrad How much worse is the location of La Palma vs. Mauna Kea?

  • swampwiz
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High School Experiment involving Kepler's laws

  • Shukie
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Stargazing Mysterious Phenomenon Seen in the Night Sky

  • Meliaveil
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Graduate Resolving power of a radio telescope array: Quantum or classical?

  • Michael Price
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Stargazing Two moons, two different rotational paths around a planet?

  • ArthurArbeid
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Undergrad What is the Maximal Parallel Velocity of a Satellite in an Elliptical Orbit?

  • andrea1313
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Undergrad Free Orbit Insertion: Is it Possible?

  • pasanta
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Undergrad How Can We Interact with Dark Matter for Sci-Fi Novel?

  • Zguy1217
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Undergrad What do "marginalized" or "marginalized error" mean? (contours - posterior)

  • fab13
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Undergrad Does the Strong Anthropic Principle have any equivalent specific model?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Are dark matter and dark energy caused by same phenomenon?

  • Buster59
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Undergrad E- & Ions Deflection by Earth's Magnetic Field

  • darkdave3000
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Stargazing CApollo 11 50th Anniversary: CSPAN3 Coverage Today

  • diogenesNY
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Undergrad Some redshift from prism effect of a gravitational lens?

  • Dustin Maki
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High School Questions regarding expansion, the vacuum in space, and black holes

  • Mburris87
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High School What would happen if the core of the sun were removed?

  • Presenter
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Undergrad Earth’s Magnetic field formula or downloadable vector field

  • darkdave3000
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Graduate Probability distribution: exponential of a quartic

  • vvaibhav08
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High School Cloud Cities on Venus: Viability & Feasibility

  • GTOM
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Undergrad Fraction of solar systems with an Earth-moon configuration?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad New table-top gravitational-wave detector proposed

  • Zeke137
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High School When could life theoretically exist in any star system after the Big Bang?

  • lucas_
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High School Can Hypothetical FTL Technologies Enable Travel to Other Bubble Universes?

  • windy miller
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High School What is the important scale of things in the Universe?

  • Suppaman
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High School Dark Matter & BAO: How Does it Suppress Baryonic Oscillations?

  • wolram
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High School Thirty Meter Telescope can resume construction

  • mfb
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High School Examples of theoretical proofs overturned by evidence?

  • Cerenkov
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Undergrad Chameleon Theory: Detecting the Particle with Astronomical Surveys

  • fresh_42
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Undergrad Question about the Cosmological Constant

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Is the Solar Constant Really 340 W/m^2 or 680 W/m^2?

  • waynesplash
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Undergrad Can Satellites in Frozen Orbits of the Moon Study Different Ground Areas?

  • Sam Phillips
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Undergrad What is the geometric plan for ALMA?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Can the LIGO observatories detect (with accuracy) temblors?

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Formula for the large-scale bias of galaxies

  • fab13
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Undergrad Is Infinity Possible Within Our Finite Universe?

  • pelletboy
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Undergrad Hubble's law and conservation of energy

  • olgerm
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Undergrad The laws of thermodynamics and the Universe

  • PhysicsNoob00
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High School How Is Methane Disappearing from Mars' Atmosphere?

  • gleem
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High School What is responsible for the spinning of a galaxy?

  • MikeeMiracle
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Graduate Forecast with Fisher formalism : loss or gain of information

  • fab13
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Undergrad How can an asteroid get caught at a Lagrange point without a "brake"?

  • Jonathan212
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High School Why do pictures of stars have 4 cardinal points?

  • swampwiz
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High School Do planets without a solid surface precess?

  • metastable
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Graduate Determine whether A is orbiting B

  • h4tt3n
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Undergrad Amount of energy inside a sphere of radius 1au around the Sun

  • confusedhome
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Stargazing Event Horizon Telescope Results Released Yesterday (April 10, 2019)

  • mfb
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