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Graduate Is the Universe Ruled by a Simple Algorithm?
- meteor
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Graduate Round One: Big Bang vs. Little Bang
- Steven Taylor
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Stargazing Star of David and Total Lunar Eclipse
- Kerrie
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Graduate What is the alternate universe theory regarding infinite extent and black holes?
- Glok
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Graduate Proton-proton chain reaction in the sun's core
- marcus
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Night Sky Watching: The International Space Station
- stuffy
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Undergrad Theory Proving Everything Has a Beginning?
- Cod
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Which Nebula is Your Favorite Astronomy Photo?
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Is Our Universe Just a Giant Black Hole in an Infinite Cycle?
- Owl
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Graduate Can a Star be Too Big to be Detected?
- Shirley
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High School Is the universe infinite and geometrically flat?
- zydubion
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Graduate Is Space and Time Discrete According to Eugene Savov's Theory of Interaction?
- clicky
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Graduate The finite bang fallacy rears its head again
- marcus
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Graduate The Universe's Blackbody Spectrum: Why is it Troublesome?
- Astronomer107
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Graduate Is Antimatter Missing Because It Traveled Back in Time?
- FZ+
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Graduate Can the universe be bounded by the speed of light?
- marcus
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Graduate Glitter, Balloons and Jell-O, a model of the Universe.
- nuke_c
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Humble Hubble a star that will not fade
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Are Wet, Rocky Planets Common in the Universe?
- marcus
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Graduate Did Space Have Properties Before the Big Bang?
- wolram
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Graduate Why Do Smaller Black Holes Have Higher Temperatures?
- Tail
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Could human beings accept thier place in the universes?
- Zantra
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Graduate Did the cosmic background radiation redshift from x-rays to microwaves?
- Nim
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High School Why does element rarity increase with atomic number?
- Nim
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Undergrad Does the universe specify a mass limit?
- SamBuckler
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Graduate Is the universe conscious and alive?
- M. Gaspar
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Graduate How the Sun will eventually give Earth a ring system
- Janus
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Undergrad Moon Derives From Earth, Space Object, Study Says: Nat' Geographic.com
- Ivan Seeking
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How close will Mars be on the 27th and how bright will it appear?
- Gale
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Does high humidity prevent observations with a Dobsonian telescope?
- kleinma
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Graduate Can Planck-length loops in loop quantum gravity break apart?
- meteor
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Graduate Why does the exclusion principle fail to support black hole formation?
- Kalimaa23
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Undergrad 2 Black Holes: What Would Happen?
- hell18
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Graduate Universe began at a singualrity at the big bang
- photon
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Graduate Spacetime has no physical existence
- marcus
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Undergrad Could the universe have a toroidal topology?
- Devilin
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Undergrad Gravitational effect on planets when
- Hyperreality
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Graduate Squashed Star Flattens Solar Theory
- subtillioN
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Graduate What is the Evidence for Dark Energy on Small Scales?
- Brad_Ad23
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New players needed in Astronomy gamethread
- marcus
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Americans still positive about space program
- Phobos
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Graduate New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars' Moons: Space.com
- Ivan Seeking
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Strange Spots on Mars: Space.com
- Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Einstein's Cosmological Constant
- Finger Painter
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Graduate Evidence for a finite universe
- Eh
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Undergrad Martian warm spots could be towers of ice: Newscientists.com
- Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Similarities and differences between black holes and black bodies
- vedder
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Shuttle Launch Leader: Who Is It?
- Astronomer107
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Graduate How can the universe exist without time?
- Zantra
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Undergrad Gravity Collapse on Planets: Physicists' Perspective
- Hyperreality
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Graduate The beginning/end of the universe
- myok
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Undergrad Finding resources on gravitational and nuclear effects throughout stellar evolution
- Bunting
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High School What unit is used to measure volume in space?
- Chen
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Undergrad Asteroid hazard revised: Nature.com
- Ivan Seeking
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Undergrad Using light-years and age of the universe to calculate size
- Mattius_
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Graduate How Do Gravity Anomalies Affect Earth's Shape?
- Ivan Seeking
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High School Does the Cosmological Constant Exist?
- newton1
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High School Newfound Stars are Huge, Powerful and Frantic: Space.com
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate J1148+5251 is the most distant object known
- meteor
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Jupiter-sized planet 12.8 billion years old
- quantumcarl
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Graduate Brief perspective on notion of the big bang
- marcus
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Graduate On the topic of curved spacetimes
- Brad_Ad23
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How many stars are in the universe?
- Phobos
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High School Distance of a Supernova Candidate from Earth: Is it Safe?
- Doctor Luz
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Graduate What is meant by curved space?
- mitch bass
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Graduate Did the singularity contain all information in the universe?
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Objects that absorb light across the entire spectrum
- Tyger
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Many universes like there are solar systems in a galaxy
- sheldon
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Graduate Is Gravity Caused by the Motion of Particles in the Fabric of Space?
- Nigel
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Undergrad Timeline and conditions in nebula and protostar formation
- maximus
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Undergrad Why didn't primordial hydrogen and helium burn after the Big Bang?
- Einstein
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What practical benefits does the Moon provide for Earth?
- Saint
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Graduate Lineweaver(May 2003)-web's best cosmology tutorial
- marcus
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Graduate Time zero glitch fades out/less need for inflation
- marcus
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Graduate Searching for a string explanation
- mitch bass
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What does the discovery of the oldest planet reveal about planetary formation?
- Sourire
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Graduate What is our actual Hubble speed ?
- Imagine
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Graduate What is Our Actual Hubble Speed and How Does it Relate to CMB?
- marcus
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High School What Lies at the Center of the Universe?
- The Grimmus
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Undergrad Why does light escape from stars if gravity affects it?
- Shirley
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High School Why do we only see one side of the moon?
- Azrioch
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Graduate Why is inflation thought necessary in std. cosm.?
- marcus
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Undergrad Does a planet's rotation affect the gravitational force it exerts?
- mitch bass
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Graduate Why must a flat universe be infinite if S^1×S^1×S^1 is flat and bounded?
- Hurkyl
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Graduate What question can we ask about Hubble constant measurement?
- Imagine
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Graduate What existed before the Big Bang and what caused it?
- kleinma
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Graduate The redshift controversy in quasars and AGN
- wolram
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High School What star groups appear on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
- aidan
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Graduate Why Is Understanding Curved Space Essential for Astronomy?
- Hurkyl
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Undergrad Is the number of galaxies infinite?
- meteor
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Graduate Is the Universe Really Not Expanding?
- wolram
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Undergrad Can a Solar System Exist Without a Central Star?
- The Grimmus
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Mars-56million km closer to earth
- Draco
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