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Undergrad What will eventually happen to all EM waves / photons?
- Yashraj Singh
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High School Wow. Great picture of exoplanet HR8799e - 129Ly distant
- jim mcnamara
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Graduate How does the electromagnetic force influence a galaxy (if at all)?
- Blinked
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Undergrad Some comments on the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference
- gleem
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Graduate Saturn's hexagon and his accretion disk jets
- Abel Cavaşi
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Undergrad Fitting a SiII curve in a supernova spectra
- rnielsen25
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Undergrad Are MOND Equations Consistent Across Sources?
- Arman777
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High School What Causes Meteor Showers and How Can You See Them?
- PhysicsPost
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High School Can a Stronger Black Hole Turn a Weaker One into a White Hole?
- JuniorAlcala
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Undergrad For astronomers, what software/languages do you use to handle data?
- astroman707
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Graduate Dark Matter Real: Studies Confirm, Modifying Gravity Can't Work
- mathman
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Graduate How does one compute frequency bandwidth based on FWHM
- TheCanadian
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Undergrad Was Dark Energy Dominant Over Matter in Early Universe?
- Ranku
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High School The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology
- Cerenkov
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Undergrad Does the newly measured expansion rate change the odds for Big Rip?
- DavidCummings
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High School What are these bright spots in this zoomable image of the Milky Way?
- simbiote3
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Undergrad How do we measure expansion if we see distant galaxies in the past?
- feddz
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High School How to find inverse steradian from arcmin^-2 for density of galaxy
- fab13
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High School If the universe were played in reverse, how would it differ?
- TheQuestionGuy14
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Undergrad Universe younger and faster than thought
- BWV
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Undergrad Will the Big Rip basically be the Big Bang for the next universe?
- swampwiz
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Undergrad What is the Most Accurate Mass for Rigel?
- darkness626
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Undergrad Discovering Sedna: The Mysterious Red Planetoid Orbiting the Sun
- Orion1
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High School How prevalent is the R language in astronomy research?
- astroman707
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Undergrad Why are pictures of galaxies so clear?
- zuz
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Graduate Interplanetary electromagnetic field
- rpr
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Undergrad Is the age of the Universe "boundless"?
- swampwiz
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Graduate Dark Matter Halo + Virial theorem Q.
- neutralseer
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Graduate Different FRW Cosmological Models
- QuarkDecay
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High School What A White Hole Will Look Like?
- Deepblu
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Undergrad Provide me the paper by Peebles,P.J.E 1980 and 1993
- Apashanka
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Graduate R136a1: The Most Massive and Luminous Blue Hypergiant Star
- Orion1
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Undergrad Typical light levels at Mars's surface
- PolarPenguin
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High School What does 4 D spacetime look like?
- wolram
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Undergrad Helium Hydride data, Early universe chemistry evidence?
- pinball1970
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Graduate Recent mass estimates for Milky and the Local Group
- marcus
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Graduate How Many Stars Can Detectable Wobbles Reveal Extrasolar Planets?
- nick21324neo
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Graduate Anti-Matter- Regular Matter- Pulse Collisions?
- Arian
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Graduate Black hole singularities and negative space-time
- shinotenshi
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Graduate New and Improved: Elliptical Transfer Orbits determination procedure.
- Jenab2
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Stargazing Our absolute speed in the cosmos
- DeusExMachina
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Graduate Coronal Rain -- an interesting article
- davenn
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Undergrad How can an expanding Universe look homogeneous?
- Vincentius
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Undergrad Could a fully convective Sun double its lifespan?
- bbbl67
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Graduate Abundance and mass spectrum of PBH
- koulbichok
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High School [Curiosity] Are there any central databases of Red Shift?
- standard_dev
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Stargazing Short videos on the Messier catalog of deep sky objects
- davenn
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Undergrad Why the Moon always shows the same face
- Tony Hambro
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Graduate Why the fine-tuning argument for improbable existence is a fallacy
- Pleonasm
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High School A different take on the M87 black hole
- DrClaude
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Undergrad Disappearing lakes on Titan - seasonal cycles
- mfb
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Undergrad Uncertainty Over Sextans Galaxies' Group Membership
- Si_187
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Undergrad Are Galaxies Gravitationally Bound?
- nmsurobert
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Undergrad Does a solar eclipse gamma of 0 mean eclipse goes through 90° altitude?
- swampwiz
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High School Any updates on the first-ever Parker perihelion results?
- sophiecentaur
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Trying to get a pen to work in so little to no gravity in space
- almostvoid
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High School Could accelerating expansion be caused by a "spinning" universe?
- metastable
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Undergrad Exploring the Gravitational Pull of Black Holes: A Perspective on Safe Distances
- Hey
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High School How common for almost same solar eclipse 17 months later?
- swampwiz
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Undergrad M87 Black Hole Photos and the Spin Orientations
- aabottom
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Undergrad Can black hole studies shed any light on dark matter
- BWV
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Undergrad Is the Divisor (2π)^3 Necessary in Photon Gas Equations?
- Sky Darmos
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Graduate Question about Condensation of Space
- MikePB
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Graduate Can Space Itself Store Energy?
- Chris Nimmons
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Undergrad Orbital velocity of a craft at 4km above the Moon's surface
- Fred Bobo
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High School Is This the First Image of a Black Hole?
- wolram
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Undergrad Observation of the Messier 87 Super Massive Black Hole
- macmic853
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Undergrad Could the kinetic energy of space junk be recycled?
- HammerAndChisel
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High School Gravitational Wave Interference Graphical Computer Simulation
- Simpleton123
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Undergrad Dark Plasma charged under unbroken U(1)' gauge interaction
- cube137
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Graduate Ideas for determining the volume of a rotating object
- Lardos
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Insights How to Create a Universe - Instructions for an Apprentice God - Comments
- A. Neumaier
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High School Earth Orbits of Geostationary Satellites
- John12343210
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Undergrad New LIGO/Virgo event (08-Apr-19)
- phyzguy
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Undergrad Probability distribution of angle of asteroid entry to the atmosphere
- Jonathan212
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High School Temperature regulation in Earth orbit
- Treva31
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Undergrad What is the minimum mass of a neutron star?
- bbbl67
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High School Orbits of galaxies in the Coma Cluster
- Buckethead
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High School Why can't we see dark matter in the solar system?
- Leonardo Muzzi
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Undergrad What is the definition of the entropy of the Universe?
- AlexandreZani
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Undergrad What would the universe look like without dark matter?
- Ranku
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Undergrad Does the Friedmann vacuum equation have a linear solution?
- jcap
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Undergrad Is Late Water Flow on Mars Linked to Climate Change or Permafrost Melting?
- BillTre
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High School Absorption of electromagnetic radiation
- rashida564
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Undergrad Expanding universe needs a big bang?
- CHOP
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High School How does the Earth move through in 3 separate trajectories?
- Grazing Dogs
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High School Visual simulation of gravitational lensing
- roineust
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Undergrad Why can't LIGO detect collisions of super massive black holes?
- mitosis
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Undergrad Is the Minkowksi/Einstein Block Universe theory science?
- Pleonasm
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Undergrad Would a HEMP event cause the northern lights?
- thisisweak
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High School How Does Telescope Magnification Differ from Resolving Power?
- roineust
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Graduate Dark Matter Accretion Disk for Black Hole (Neutron Star)
- PSR1257II
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Undergrad Understanding Negative Inclination Orbits in Space Science
- Maher
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Stargazing Efficient Follow-Up of Exoplanet Transits Using Small Telescopes
- wolram
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Graduate Solving a Cipher: Celestial coordinates and precession
- Adam Laceky
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Undergrad Northern lights and the magnetic field
- windy miller
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High School 83 quasars right up against the Event Horizon
- Gfellow
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Undergrad Can the MOND theory be experimentally tested?
- KurtLudwig
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Undergrad Main Sequence Rules: Definition & Interpretation
- Saturn_V
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