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High School Particle Deceleration in Relativistic Jets?
- metastable
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High School How do we know that the Universe is expanding?
- MikeeMiracle
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High School What process allows us to 'see' lightyears of distance with the natural eye?
- Surayabay
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Undergrad Does the gravity sling require rocket guidance to be non-negligible?
- Jonathan212
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Undergrad How was the Earth's Orbit Derived?
- mdeng
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Graduate How Does Rotational Velocity Affect Gravity and Space Launches?
- Taremos
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High School What is our understanding of dark matter?
- questionator89
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High School Can someone please explain this paragraph from A Brief History Of Time
- Rishabh Narula
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Undergrad SpaceX's 5K Satellites: A Risk of Man-Made Meteors?
- swampwiz
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Undergrad My 3rd question - About Stellar Spectrum
- ThomasJoe40
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High School What’s more “important": GR or QM?
- SJay16
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Undergrad What Justifies the Slight Preponderance of Matter Over Anti-Matter?
- adrianxw
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Stargazing Does Our Picture of the Universe Become Less Accurate the Farther We Look?
- Victor Lee
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Undergrad How is dark matter thought to have formed a network scaffolding?
- hkyriazi
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High School Defining Planets: The Case of Pluto and Other Small Bodies
- Ralph Rotten
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Undergrad Does the universe have a definite "size"?
- ScottVal
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High School Expansion or contraction -- how do we know which?
- Greenlight
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Undergrad BREAKING: New potentially habitable exoplanet found around Teegarden
- alberto91
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Undergrad Equation of state and density parameter
- Ranku
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Undergrad Cosmological constant and structure formation
- Ranku
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High School How well should Astronomers know General Relativity?
- SJay16
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Undergrad Spacetime curvature and curvature index
- Ranku
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High School What is Hubble's Luminosity Law?
- angela6884
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Undergrad Creation of our universe from zero energy?
- entropy1
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Graduate 2-body inspirals that circularize
- tempus
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Undergrad What's the largest rocky planet with 1g gravity in theory?
- greswd
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High School The Hubble deep field photos and the edge of the universe
- Sophrosyne
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High School Black holes and the first law of thermodynamics
- ElliotSmith
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High School What is the probability that the Universe is absolutely flat?
- Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Coherence length of velocity fields
- Apashanka
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Undergrad Most-detailed-ever simulations of a BH solve long standing mystery
- Spinnor
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Undergrad Dark Matter not present in Galaxy when distance is Increased
- GiftOfPlasma
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High School Galaxy Database with distances from Earth
- Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Hubble's Law: Distance, Speed, & Upper Limit
- zuz
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Graduate Can anything capture a black hole?
- JEL
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Graduate Cosmological models with variable EoS
- Chronos
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High School Is Dark Energy Born at the Big Bang or Continually Created?
- Ken Lehn
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Undergrad Did Universal Physical Constants Exist at the Big Bang?
- fasteddie1371
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High School Is the asteroid belt horizontal or like a dome?
- Mshenko
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Undergrad Can Merging Black Holes Have Infinite Kinetic Energy?
- Herbascious J
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Undergrad Qs re Cosmological Models Using Bayesian Probability Methods
- Buzz Bloom
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High School Is Dark Matter a Misunderstood Global Effect?
- wolram
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High School Destroying asteroids shown to be very difficult
- jim mcnamara
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High School Age of Universe: 13.8 Billion Years
- MikeeMiracle
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Undergrad The Sun's excess gamma rays and strange dips
- cube137
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Playing with the Universe Sandbox Software
- Ralph Rotten
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Graduate Does the CMB dipole indicate anisotropic expansion?
- bwana
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Undergrad Is the Universe a 3-sphere or a 4-sphere?
- Herbascious J
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High School Radio source Hercules A and galaxy 3C 348
- Nathan Warford
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High School New theory, our solar system formation, "space bubble"
- Spinnor
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High School What is empirically known about the shape and size of the Universe?
- Enquerencia
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What should we do with the retired Hubble?
- Phobos
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High School Juno -- Coolest space ship in the solar system?
- Ralph Rotten
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Undergrad Please teach me about the mass of Sgr A*
- arcTomato
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Insights Equations of State for Photon Gas and Relativistic Electron Gas
- andrewkirk
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Stargazing How Did Ancient People Calculate Celestial Measurements?
- Damned2Hell
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Graduate Dark matter and energy explained by negative mass
- KarlM
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Undergrad What Innovative Coding Projects Can Enhance Your Understanding of Cosmology?
- Arman777
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High School A little logical doubt on Hawking radiation
- Archmundada
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Undergrad Terraforming Mars by using Europa
- James Minwell
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Undergrad What physical mechanisms are involved in heating planetary bodies?
- RedGiant
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Undergrad Why Does Wormhole Travel Take Longer Than a 'Regular' Path?
- John Morax
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Undergrad Questions about the inverse square law
- KurtLudwig
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Undergrad Mars Magnetosphere: New Research on Solar Wind Induced Shielding
- vin300
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Graduate Direct Detection of Cold Dark Matter
- Garth
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High School Could Matter/Anti-Matter Annihilation Explain Dark Energy and Dark Matter?
- Michaela SJ
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High School Is the Hawking-Hartle Euclidean approach confirmed by CMBR data?
- Cerenkov
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Undergrad What Future Experiments Could Confirm Extra Dimensions in Cosmology?
- Tom Mcfarland
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High School Is 3D reality merely an illusion?
- Simple man
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Undergrad How Does Baryonic Matter Alone Affect the Universe’s Structure?
- Ranku
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High School Is the "Information Paradox" close to getting resolved?
- Simple man
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High School What Size Would the Universe Be if Compressed to Neutron Star Density?
- AndrzejBania
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Undergrad How best to photograph the Lyrid meteor shower
- Andy Resnick
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Undergrad Is the Floating Launch Loop a Viable Alternative for Space Exploration?
- darkdave3000
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Excited to go to Brian Cox's "ADVENTURES IN SPACE & TIME" tonight
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Planets or stars that are composed entirely out from Dark Matter.
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Cosmic microwave background observations
- nmsurobert
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Undergrad What happens to spacetime during the expansion of the Universe?
- MikeeMiracle
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Undergrad So astronomers really don't have an idea about density of asteroids?
- swampwiz
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Undergrad What is the refractive index of the Universe?
- confusedhome
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Graduate Alignment of Quasar Polarizations 0507274
- CarlB
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Undergrad How does the expansion of the Universe affect black holes?
- Yashraj Singh
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Graduate How Can I Find Correction Factors for Tropical Years in Historical Data?
- jim mcnamara
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Graduate Analysis Paralysis: A Must-Read Paper on Cosmology Theory/Data
- Chronos
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Graduate Historical reprint/coverage papers requested
- Mordred
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Graduate Interesting video on infrared modifications to gravity
- Haelfix
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Graduate Observational constraints on quarks in neutron stars
- Chronos
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Graduate What is the connection between dark matter and ordinary baryonic matter?
- Garth
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Graduate How unitary cosmology solves the inflationary entropy problem
- DrChinese
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Graduate Explore Holographic Dark Energy: Edmund J. Copeland et al.
- jal
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Graduate Black hole accretion disk/jet reference
- Mordred
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Graduate Lyman alpha forest different for different objects?
- Jonathan Scott
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Graduate Black Hole Confusion: How Karen Masters Contributed
- Chronos
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Graduate Galactic Evolution: Recent Papers Reveal Important Insights
- Chronos
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Graduate Escape Velocity in GR - PhysicsForums
- stevebd1
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Graduate Does the Thermoelectric effect apply in sun?
- Spinnor
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Graduate Centripetal forces and gravity
- stevebd1
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Graduate What Caused the Ejection of Mu Columbae and AE Aurigae from Orion?
- Astronuc
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Graduate Spiral Galaxies: Axes Alignment with Cosmic Voids
- jim mcnamara
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Undergrad Why is this Hubble plot linear for Omega=2 closed universe?
- Bandersnatch
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