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Graduate Is the Universe Ruled by a Simple Algorithm?

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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?

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Graduate Why Do Smaller Black Holes Have Higher Temperatures?

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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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How should we retire the Hubble?

  • Phobos
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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 How much entropy is in the universe?

  • marcus
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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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How would you rate your area as a star gazing spot?

  • Shadow
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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 Picturing the history of the world's expansion

  • marcus
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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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How you picture the expansion of space.

  • marcus
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High School What is dark energy?

  • meteor
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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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Your picture of universe's timeline

  • marcus
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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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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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