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Graduate 3-star triangular orbit possible?

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Undergrad Exploring Planetary Orbits and the Sun's Rotation

  • rootone
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High School Questions About the Growth of the Universe

  • J251H
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Undergrad Question about orbits and Kepler's problem

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Undergrad What is the purpose of Cosmology and where can I find information about it?

  • TNUTUNU
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Undergrad Why don't red dwarf stars emit white light like the Sun?

  • James2018
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Undergrad Synchronous Orbits: Why Does 3:5 Jupiter/Saturn Happen?

  • rootone
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High School An observer looking at Earth's past history

  • happyhacker
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Graduate What volume of interstellar space is needed to form a star?

  • anyman
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Undergrad Is the Sun a Perfect Black Body? Investigating the Reflection of Radiation

  • YoungPhysicist
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High School Brown Dwarf Mass Gain: Does Radius Increase?

  • tovisonnenberg
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High School Thank you for understanding. Have a great day!

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Undergrad Is Dark Matter Really a Cold, Collisionless Fluid?

  • Robin04
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High School Are Deep Space Objects Still There?

  • Edeff
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Undergrad BAO : Relation between redshift, Hubble constant and radial

  • fab13
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Undergrad Radial dependence of the Sun's magnetic field

  • prodi
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Undergrad Would going to the Moon delay going to Mars?

  • Al_
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High School Are all wavelengths of light possible?

  • AGuglielmone
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Undergrad Will Space Expansion Lead to the Formation of Black Holes and Neutron Stars?

  • Meuchedet
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Insights Either the Sun Is Getting Smaller or Gravity Is Getting Weaker

  • klotza
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Undergrad What problems would 'black holes' not being formed solve?

  • DarkStar42
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Graduate Solving WIMP & Dark Matter Equation

  • Thiwanka Jayasiri
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Undergrad If all of spacetime was created with the Big Bang....

  • rumborak
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Undergrad Why are there so many different kinds of stars?

  • sjp9220
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High School What Secrets Does the Color of Space Hold and How Does Space Travel Work?

  • nivamani Rajbongshi
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High School What can be used to propel something in space without fuel?

  • Andrew broome
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High School How Long After the Big Bang Did Life First Emerge?

  • dahoa
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Undergrad Is There a Model to Define Earth's Position in the Milky Way?

  • Cosmic Gazelle
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Graduate Decoding Hubble Data: Acceleration and Age of the Universe

  • meatym
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Undergrad Time Since Big Bang: One Moment Everywhere?

  • clinden
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Graduate Phase Space and Its Use in Monte Carlo Simulations of Radiation Beams

  • Gruxg
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Stargazing Phase of radio waves received by a radio telescope dish

  • jordankonisky
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High School Why don't high mass stars expand and cool?

  • tovisonnenberg
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Undergrad Trying to reproduce curves with angle of CMB anisotropies

  • fab13
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Undergrad Hawking points discovered in CMB

  • member 342489
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High School Why will Betelgeuse go supernova?

  • tovisonnenberg
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High School Demystifying the Hubble Constant

  • MikeinSpain
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High School Is Our Universe a Causal Patch Stretched by Inflation?

  • Cerenkov
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Undergrad Hawking Radiation and the Negative Energy Particle

  • Islam Hassan
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High School Mars Water: The Truth Behind Its Blue Color and Recent Discovery Revealed

  • Delta2
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Undergrad Would Newton's shell theorem prevent binary planet systems?

  • DarkStar42
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High School Planet Nine race, how is it going?

  • nikkkom
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Graduate Multiverse theory with impossible universes?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Is Earths' potential of 0 volts valid throught the Universe?

  • Bill Hendry
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Graduate CMBR anisotropy and cosmic abundances

  • Adrian59
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High School Eta Carinae Is Farther Than You Thought: 8,500 Light-Years

  • CygnusX-1
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Undergrad A discussion on "officially called a planet"

  • fizzy
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Undergrad Troubles understanding slow-roll conditions in Inflation

  • "Don't panic!"
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Undergrad Dark matter "halo" is a "flattened disk" ?

  • phinds
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Graduate Why Does the Core of Certain Chromospheric Lines Appear in Emission in Sunspots?

  • spossatamente
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High School Our universe's entropy/size vs Bekenstein's theory

  • Bob Walance
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High School Is There a Model That Includes Infinite Space and Finite Matter in Our Universe?

  • Mukund
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Undergrad Harmonic Convergence of Major Planets: Exploring the Solar System Barycenter

  • jim77
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High School How Do You Determine the Sun's Coordinates?

  • Kuzma
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High School A Question Concerning Lunar Eclipses and Aristarchus's Work

  • Mikaelochi
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High School Was the Big Bang simply "Distant Traffic"?

  • ct2193
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Stargazing The Moon through my El Crapo Telescope

  • DennisN
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Undergrad Least cost to get a self-sustaining space infrastructure

  • Al_
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High School Is our 3D universe a shadow of a 4D Universe?

  • Zdravko
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High School Neutron Star Collisions: Creation of Heavy Elements and Their Fate

  • tovisonnenberg
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Undergrad Could entropy remain the same overall?

  • DarkStar42
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Undergrad Do orbital dynamics scale linearly?

  • Russell Patterson
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Undergrad Why does the expanding universe redshift light?

  • tovisonnenberg
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Undergrad Composition of the Sun: How We Know via Spectral Absorption Lines

  • Andrew Church
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Undergrad Can Relativity Be Confirmed Again with a Star and a Black Hole?

  • Tom.G
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High School A Singularity in Semi-Classical physics too?

  • Cerenkov
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Undergrad Neptune images from VLT better than Hubble

  • Tom.G
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High School How do we know that the universe is still expanding

  • Deepblu
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High School Saturn's Rings Appearance from Saturn?

  • gmax137
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High School Attention: We have an important announcement from our Sun

  • jedishrfu
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High School General theory of relativity&Planet orbits

  • Sai Siddhartha k
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Undergrad Liquid water reservoir reported under Mars polar cap

  • Fewmet
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Undergrad Which Main Sequence Stars Experience Hot Corona Phenomena Beyond G2?

  • spossatamente
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Undergrad Thoughts on Breakthrough Starshot?

  • greswd
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High School Discussing Sterile Neutrino Candidacy as Dark Matter

  • Simon Peach
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Graduate Do any coordinate systems include self magnification?

  • DarkStar42
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Graduate What is primordial non gaussianity?

  • Avi Nandi
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Undergrad Why is the Moon getting further from Earth ?

  • DaTario
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Stargazing Help with how to start Stargazing

  • at94official
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Undergrad How do telescopes allow us to see light sources millions of light years away?

  • Clay
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Undergrad Spherical Symmetry/Simultaneity of Supernova Explosions

  • Islam Hassan
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Undergrad Is Dark Matter Really Necessary in Our Understanding of the Universe?

  • neonred
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High School NYTimes: 79 Moons of Jupiter and Counting

  • diogenesNY
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Undergrad Redshift and the Friedmann metric

  • redtree
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High School Are Antiparticles the Key to Understanding the Universe?

  • Malek
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High School Blazar as the Source of Cosmic Neutrinos Confirmed

  • jedishrfu
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Undergrad Big Bang Singularity vs Black Hole Singularities

  • Islam Hassan
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Undergrad White dwarf collapses into a neutron star and Energy is released

  • donielix
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High School Known properties and constraints of dark matter

  • SlowThinker
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Graduate Energy conservation on Cosmological scales

  • Almighty BOB
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Undergrad Chemical Elements produced inside the Sun

  • DaTario
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Undergrad Could the original size of the Universe be the Planck length

  • BadgerBadger92
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High School The Stefan-Boltzmann Law and Sunspots

  • K. Doc Holiday
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Undergrad Convincing a Flat Earther: Proving the Earth is Spherical

  • jim77
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Graduate How Does a Decreasing Higgs Field Influence the Evolution of the Universe?

  • AshTown
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Undergrad Space elevator and Coriolis force

  • Prophet
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Undergrad Mass Equivalence of Photon Content Inside the Sun?

  • Islam Hassan
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High School Gravitational waves and refraction patterns....

  • Benplace
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High School What Causes the Phenomenon of Cosmic Inflation?

  • BadgerBadger92
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