Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology Forum

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Graduate Can quantum fluctuations create multiple universes with different laws?

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High School Why does Pluto have such an unusual orbit?

  • RuroumiKenshin
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Graduate Does Kepler's 3rd law relate gravitational force to kinetic energy per radius?

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High School Why are space and time treated together in physics?

  • dock
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Graduate Uniform vs progressive solar system formation

  • quantumcarl
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High School What is redshift?

  • Viper
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Regular grid patterns and structures in Mars orbital photos

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Graduate The Universe In a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking

  • RuroumiKenshin
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Graduate Can Multidimensional Space Time Exist?

  • visualbasicjedi
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Jen Congratulated by National News

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Graduate The Equivalence of Space and Time: A Hypothesis Supported by Evidence

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Graduate Theory expressing the creation of matter in the early universe

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Why Haven't We Returned to the Moon?

  • Kerrie
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Graduate Trouble for discrete space-time?

  • Eh
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Undergrad Approximate orbital period for earth's moon

  • jaypee
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High School Why is the core of our earth so hot?

  • alchemist
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High School What Keeps the Earth Spinning? What If It Stops?

  • alchemist
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Graduate Does the universe allow for paradoxes?

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Graduate Why doesn't gravity slow the universe's expansion?

  • Jack
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Graduate Is the Universe Spherical, Cylindrical, or Something Else?

  • Einstiensqd
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Dark spot discovered on Jupiter in 2003

  • Mentat
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High School Can two planets have perpendicular orbits relative to others?

  • Mentat
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High School Was Pluto a satellite of Neptune before becoming a planet?

  • Kerrie
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Graduate What is time as a dimension in relativity?

  • quant
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Stargazing What are the latest features and top picks for telescopes?

  • quantumdude
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Graduate Will we ever produce a theory of everything in physics?

  • Jack
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Graduate Two Black Holes. No singularity.

  • Nicool003
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High School How Do Stars Burn in Space Without Oxygen?

  • Bubonic Plague
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High School Will the universe end in a Big Rip, Big Crunch, or expand forever?

  • Parsons
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Graduate What Happens to Homogeneity in a Magnetic Universe of Pulsars?

  • Loren Booda
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Graduate Is There More to the Universe Than We Think?

  • Atload
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Graduate Did the Big Bang originate from a black hole singularity?

  • chosenone
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Graduate Are singularities an infinitely large amount of matter

  • Parsons
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Graduate Density of dark energy in Planck units

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Undergrad What is the significance of the LISA project in studying gravity waves?

  • ahrkron
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