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Aliens/Intelligant Life forms, do they exist?

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High School Solar System Similar to Ours Found

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Undergrad How Do Black Hole Schematics Work?

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Undergrad Out there physics/astrology question

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High School Mystifying Star: Spinning So Fast It's Flattening Out?

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High School Scary Statistics: American Beliefs from 2002-1969

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What's there to see in the night sky at this time of year?

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Graduate Solving the Mysteries of Galaxies

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Undergrad Calculating Galaxy Coordinates to Avoid Star Misplacement

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Phobos is an Exceptionally Dark Object in the Solar System

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High School What Are the Latest and Upcoming Missions to the Outer Planets?

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Graduate Second black hole may lurk at Milky Way's heart

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Graduate So, what is the right question to ask about this topic?

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High School Moon-Earth Position: Apollo 8 Photo Examined

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Graduate The Direction of Space: Is Light Traveling Around the Periphery?

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Graduate Could Sub-Universes Exist Within an Infinite Multiverse?

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Graduate Is the Universe Shaped Like a Three-Torus?

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If everything was increased in size equally, would it matter?

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Graduate Age of a Distant Galaxy: Is It Double?

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Undergrad Big Bang vs White Hole: The Truth Revealed

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Graduate 96 percent of cosmos puzzles astronomers

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Graduate Does the Universe Behave Logically or Illogically?

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Graduate What Are Supernumerary Dimensions and Their Role in LQG Theory?

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Graduate How Does Gravity Affect Light?

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Graduate Are There Viable Alternatives to Dark Matter in Explaining Galactic Motion?

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Graduate What are Stephen Hawking's Calculations on the Eternity of the Universe?

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Graduate Reverse Time in Big Crunch: Is It Real or Just a Flawed Logic?

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Undergrad Understand Doppler Effect: Hubble & Stars Moving Away

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Graduate Strange star puzzles astronomers: BBC

  • Ivan Seeking
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High School Absolute zero for the boomerang nebula?

  • wolram
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High School Is the Sun More Spherical or Oval? Investigating the Shape of Our Closest Star

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Graduate Will Earth's Moon Follow Other Moons into a Ring System?

  • StephenPrivitera
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Mars Closest to Earth: Latest News & Mission Plans

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Graduate The Infinity Experience: Can we truly comprehend infinity?

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High School A question of Planetary formation.

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Undergrad Dark Matter: What Is It & How Will It Change Astronomy?

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High School Slowing Down a Telescope: Showercaps, Endcaps & Dustcovers

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Graduate Does nonbaryonic dark matter exist?

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Stargazing Need advice/opinions on a telescope

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High School Source of Energy for the Rotation of Earth

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Graduate Universe can surf the Big Rip; Nature article

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Graduate What Can We Truly Know About the Universe?

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Undergrad The Moon's Impact on Earth: What Happens Without It?

  • Saint
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Bad astronomy spurs good laughter

  • Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Solving Hubble Constant with rhocrit and Cosmological Constant

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Graduate Fact or Fiction? Cosmology Statements

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Is Earth Alone in a Universe Full of Stars?

  • Saint
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What Are the Big Changes on Mars?

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Graduate Is the Expansion of Space Truly Universal?

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Graduate What is the current radius of the observable universe?

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Graduate Light Years And Expanding Universe

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Graduate Iron Fusion in Stars: Uncovering the Mysteries of Heavy Elements on Earth

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Did Carl Sagan Lobby for This Iconic Image of Earth from Mars Orbit?

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Undergrad Information request about Galaxies

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High School Discover the Speed of Our Solar System

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Has the Universe Slowed Its Expansion?

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Graduate Understanding the Sun's Gravity and Its Impact on Planetary Orbits

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Graduate Notion of matter, space and time

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Graduate Estimating Critical Mass for Expansion

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Graduate Space Genetics: A Weird Physics Theory on Mass, Radiation, and the Universe

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Undergrad What Caused Uranus' Unique Rotation?

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Stargazing Best Telescope Recommendations for City Viewing Near NYC

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Graduate Which is the metric of the Universe?

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Undergrad What is the density in atoms per unit volume of most nebulas?

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High School Tevatron Explained: Emmy Noether's Mass Page

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Undergrad Question about looking back in time

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Undergrad What's your estimate of the other Drake equation?

  • Ivan Seeking
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I am the living Universe (please discuss)

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Graduate Why the 4th dimension was created

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High School Earth from Mars: Why is it Blurry? | CNN Exclusive

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Vipers amazing theroy on life in the universe

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What is the name of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy?

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Graduate Local Group Direction & Solar System CMB Motion

  • marcus
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Graduate How does this oscillating electromagnetic field keep its information?

  • wolram
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Graduate Gravity & Vacuum in General Relativity: Is Space Flat?

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Graduate Space: Is it a place? Or is it a physical entity?

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High School How does the rotation of the earth around the axis bring about changes

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Graduate Unpacking the Quantum Universe: God's Knowledge and the Role of Observations

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What is your guess at Drake's answer?

  • Ivan Seeking
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High School Are There Stars Primarily Composed of Helium?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate 3pi/Lambda = area of cosmological horizon

  • marcus
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Graduate Cosmological redshift: how much energy has gone missing?

  • marcus
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Graduate Lee Smolin predicted dark energy back in 1995

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High School Star Birth: Process & Gravity Effects

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Graduate A toolkit for working with natural units

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Graduate One theory is that the higgs particle gives matter mass

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Graduate What are the galactic coordinates of the Cosmic Microwave Background hotspot?

  • marcus
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Graduate How long before the sun goes red giant?

  • marcus
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Graduate What is the quantitative understanding of Hawking radiation from a black hole?

  • marcus
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Graduate What prevents black hole singularities from being reached?

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Graduate Understanding Rho Crit: The Critical Density of the Universe

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Graduate What is the critical density of the universe?

  • marcus
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Graduate SauwIs the concept of finite space in infinite time scientifically valid?

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Undergrad Are fundamental physical laws dependent on our choice of units of measurement?

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Graduate Are There Explanations for Solar Neutrino Anomalies and Hot Jupiters?

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Stargazing Effects of a massive object on light and its relation to the 1919 Eclipse

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Undergrad Astronomer107 and the surface gravity of a black hole

  • marcus
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Graduate What's your favorite brief survey of modern cosmology?

  • marcus
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Stargazing Check Out the Lunar Eclipse Tonight - Night Calculator

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Graduate Question re GP-3 orbiting gyroscopes test of relativity

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