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Undergrad What is the refractive index of the Universe?

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Graduate Alignment of Quasar Polarizations 0507274

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Undergrad How does the expansion of the Universe affect black holes?

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Graduate How Can I Find Correction Factors for Tropical Years in Historical Data?

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Graduate Analysis Paralysis: A Must-Read Paper on Cosmology Theory/Data

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Graduate Historical reprint/coverage papers requested

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Graduate Interesting video on infrared modifications to gravity

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Graduate Observational constraints on quarks in neutron stars

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Graduate Could dark matter be composite baryonic objects?

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Graduate How unitary cosmology solves the inflationary entropy problem

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Graduate Copeland et al. review omits holographic dark energy models

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Graduate Black hole accretion disk/jet reference

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Graduate Lyman alpha forest different for different objects?

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Graduate Black Hole Confusion: How Karen Masters Contributed

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Graduate Recent papers on galactic evolution and metallicity

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Graduate Escape Velocity in GR - PhysicsForums

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Graduate Does the Thermoelectric effect apply in sun?

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Graduate Centripetal forces and gravity

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Graduate Were Mu Columbae and AE Aurigae ejected from Orion

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Graduate Spiral Galaxies: Axes Alignment with Cosmic Voids

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Undergrad Why is this Hubble plot linear for Omega=2 closed universe?

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Undergrad What will eventually happen to all EM waves / photons?

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High School Wow. Great picture of exoplanet HR8799e - 129Ly distant

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Graduate How does the electromagnetic force influence a galaxy (if at all)?

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Undergrad Some comments on the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference

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Graduate Saturn's hexagon and his accretion disk jets

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Undergrad Fitting a SiII curve in a supernova spectra

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Undergrad Are MOND Equations Consistent Across Sources?

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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?

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Undergrad For astronomers, what software/languages do you use to handle data?

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Graduate Galaxies without dark matter rule out modified gravity theories

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Graduate How does one compute frequency bandwidth based on FWHM

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Undergrad Was Dark Energy Dominant Over Matter in Early Universe?

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High School The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology

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Undergrad Does the newly measured expansion rate change the odds for Big Rip?

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High School What are these bright spots in this zoomable image of the Milky Way?

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Undergrad How do we measure expansion if we see distant galaxies in the past?

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High School How to find inverse steradian from arcmin^-2 for density of galaxy

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High School If the universe were played in reverse, how would it differ?

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Undergrad Universe younger and faster than thought

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Undergrad Will the Big Rip basically be the Big Bang for the next universe?

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Undergrad What is the Most Accurate Mass for Rigel?

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Undergrad Discovering Sedna: The Mysterious Red Planetoid Orbiting the Sun

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High School How prevalent is the R language in astronomy research?

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Undergrad Why are pictures of galaxies so clear?

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Graduate Interplanetary electromagnetic field

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Undergrad Is the age of the Universe "boundless"?

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Graduate Dark Matter Halo + Virial theorem Q.

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Graduate Different FRW Cosmological Models

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High School What A White Hole Will Look Like?

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Undergrad Provide me the paper by Peebles,P.J.E 1980 and 1993

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Graduate R136a1: The Most Massive and Luminous Blue Hypergiant Star

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Undergrad Typical light levels at Mars's surface

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High School What does 4 D spacetime look like?

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Undergrad Helium Hydride data, Early universe chemistry evidence?

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Graduate Recent mass estimates for Milky and the Local Group

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Graduate How Many Stars Can Detectable Wobbles Reveal Extrasolar Planets?

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Graduate Anti-Matter- Regular Matter- Pulse Collisions?

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Graduate Black hole singularities and negative space-time

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Graduate New and Improved: Elliptical Transfer Orbits determination procedure.

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Graduate Calculating the Sun's Bending Angle on a Ray of Light

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Stargazing Our absolute speed in the cosmos

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Graduate Coronal Rain -- an interesting article

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Undergrad How can an expanding Universe look homogeneous?

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Undergrad Could a fully convective Sun double its lifespan?

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Graduate Abundance and mass spectrum of PBH

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High School [Curiosity] Are there any central databases of Red Shift?

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Stargazing Short videos on the Messier catalog of deep sky objects

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Undergrad Why the Moon always shows the same face

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Graduate Why the fine-tuning argument for improbable existence is a fallacy

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High School A different take on the M87 black hole

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Undergrad Disappearing lakes on Titan - seasonal cycles

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Undergrad Uncertainty Over Sextans Galaxies' Group Membership

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Undergrad Are Galaxies Gravitationally Bound?

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Undergrad Does a solar eclipse gamma of 0 mean eclipse goes through 90° altitude?

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High School Any updates on the first-ever Parker perihelion results?

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Trying to get a pen to work in so little to no gravity in space

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High School Could accelerating expansion be caused by a "spinning" universe?

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Undergrad What distance from a black hole feels safe?

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High School How common for almost same solar eclipse 17 months later?

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Undergrad M87 Black Hole Photos and the Spin Orientations

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Undergrad Can black hole studies shed any light on dark matter

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Undergrad Is the Divisor (2π)^3 Necessary in Photon Gas Equations?

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Graduate How can space or vacuum condense into strings?

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Graduate Can Space Itself Store Energy?

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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 First image of a black hole

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Undergrad Observation of the Messier 87 Super Massive Black Hole

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Undergrad Could the kinetic energy of space junk be recycled?

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High School Gravitational Wave Interference Graphical Computer Simulation

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Undergrad Dark Plasma charged under unbroken U(1)' gauge interaction

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Graduate Ideas for determining the volume of a rotating object

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Insights How to Create a Universe - Instructions for an Apprentice God - Comments

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High School Earth Orbits of Geostationary Satellites

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Undergrad New LIGO/Virgo event (08-Apr-19)

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Undergrad Probability distribution of angle of asteroid entry to the atmosphere

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High School Temperature regulation in Earth orbit

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Undergrad What is the minimum mass of a neutron star?

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High School Orbits of galaxies in the Coma Cluster

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