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High School Possible explanations for meteor like observations?
- Algr
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Undergrad The initial density of an object and its compression into a black hole
- i walk away
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High School I Need Help on Understanding Some Basic Astrophysics / Sand Clock Universe
- CanerKaraca
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Undergrad Would discovery of a galaxy without dark matter disprove MOND?
- lamdar
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Undergrad Cosmic ray origins
- snorkack
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Stargazing Is There a New Planet Beyond Neptune?
- mad mathematician
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Undergrad Question about Tong's cosmology lecture notes eqn. 1.19
- haushofer
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Stargazing Merger of two black holes (video)
- jack action
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High School Brightness of different layers of the Sun
- snorkack
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Graduate Understanding NOAA and Naval Observatory's Solar Calculations
- Subdot
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High School Atmospheric refraction and "rainbow"
- zasvitim
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High School Analogue Black Holes: Disposal?
- mishima
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Undergrad How big a lunar radio telescope to detect Earth-like signals?
- RobertGC
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High School Could you build a container to isolate cosmic radiation?
- JOHNTITOR1
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High School Question: Orbital mechanics of a binary star system
- mathisrad
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Stargazing Meteorite crash recorded on video in Canada
- jtbell
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Graduate What does it mean to model the distribution of galaxies as cosmic dust?
- Jerome Wang
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Undergrad What affects light near black holes and stars?
- Lari Santos
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High School How do we know if a distant galaxy is matter or anti-matter?
- fizzy
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High School More scope refurbishments or start new?
- DaveC426913
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Stargazing How Did You Capture the Mars Occultation? Share Your Photos Here!
- russ_watters
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High School Questions about the Eddington Limit and Super - Eddington black holes
- Cerenkov
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Undergrad Nature paper on Moon's initial evolution - Tidally driven remelting
- Astronuc
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Undergrad The Heavier Elements: A Question About Their Abundance
- Newtons Apple
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Undergrad Moon phase ruins my Stargazing!
- sufiyan
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Graduate Models without dark energy
- phyzguy
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High School Help w/ repairing/refurbishing an equatorial mount
- DaveC426913
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High School Does my theory about black holes make sense ?
- leuko
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Undergrad Expansion of a star to become a red giant
- lys04
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High School Considering a budget observatory
- DaveC426913
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Graduate Is there a stretching of the light curves of supernovae 1a?
- Line_112
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Undergrad 3 questions about a paper on density fluctuations in the Universe
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad How to graph Earth's path?
- Annie_28
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High School Evolution of the Universe in reverse
- javisot20
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Undergrad Possibility of multiple planets sharing the same orbit?
- Aldarion
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High School What If We Could See the Past by Placing a Mirror on the Sun?
- Colm Curley1
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High School Popular physics - The Nebra disk
- sbrothy
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High School Can a thunderstorm affect a satellite in low earth orbit?
- Wo Wala Moiz
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Undergrad Is this the correct representation for showing the direction of a star on CMD?
- hraghav
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Graduate Where to find black hole datasets
- diegzumillo
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Graduate XSPEC Composite Model Partial Flux Calculations
- Joe Prendergast
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Graduate Spectral Data Availibility
- Joe Prendergast
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Graduate Interpretation of an anticorrelation between 𝐻0 and log10(𝜔𝐵𝐷)
- fab13
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High School Can nature do this in the night sky?
- benorin
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Stargazing Is My Heavy, Slightly Magnetic Rock with Green Glass Particles a Meteorite?
- EvAngeline
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Undergrad Does light bend around black holes?
- benorin
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Undergrad The Boundary of the Observable Universe
- Jaime Rudas
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Undergrad Do particles leave behind an image when crossing cosmo event horizon?
- Happiness
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High School Predicting frequency of Earthlike planets and systems
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad How would the laws of thermodynamics change in a contracting universe?
- KurtLudwig
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High School Cosmological Redshift in Simulated Universe
- Devin-M
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High School Neutron star 4U 1820-30 spins at 716 revolutions per second
- Astronuc
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Graduate Form of energy at time of big bang
- Twodogs
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Undergrad New Developments In The Search For Planet X
- ohwilleke
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High School Looking for Axions in Neutron Stars
- jedishrfu
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Undergrad Right ascension and Declination calculations
- mathisrad
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Undergrad Why do we still see the CMB today?
- GhostLoveScore
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Graduate Black hole thermodynamics and accelerated expansion
- djymndl07
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Undergrad The brightness and linear polarization of pulsars
- ZX.Liang
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Undergrad Two-dimensional negative curvature space
- Jaime Rudas
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High School Redshifts of nearby galaxies
- Vanadium 50
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High School Optimizing Exposure Times: Balancing Efficiency and Image Quality
- Andy Resnick
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High School Strange cosmic particles in my detector
- LuckyFox
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Undergrad The Universe is expanding with acceleration
- Ignat
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High School Variation of Apparent Luminosity with Distance
- Agent Smith
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High School The Earth is upgrading with a second moon
- Frabjous
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Undergrad Distance at redshift z=0.666
- Jaime Rudas
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Graduate Dark matter is running out of places to hide!
- Adrian59
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High School Galactic Sheets and Voids
- RJ Emery
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Undergrad Bose-Einstein and Fermionic condensates in space?
- Suekdccia
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High School Asteroid 2024 RW1 - entered Earth's atmosphere over Luzon, Philippines
- Astronuc
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High School How can an infinite universe expand?
- Michael Ray Mooney
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Undergrad What if the early expansion of the Universe was not so rapid?
- kirtg
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Undergrad Does the amount of hidden mass remain constant?
- user-000
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Undergrad Rotation curve of a gas disk in an elliptical galaxy
- Sofia Piol
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Graduate Looking for information about spectroscopy isotopes and stellar formation
- Teraformer
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High School Do Fictional Worlds Exist in the Multiverse?
- R0dr1go
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High School Questions about a paper on reconciling JWST and HST data
- Cerenkov
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Undergrad How we are in a matter dominated universe (without antimatter annihilation)
- brooknorton1
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Undergrad J0524-0336, surprisingly high Li concentration
- Astronuc
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Undergrad Can there be free electrons in interstellar gas?
- Suekdccia
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Graduate Does modified gravity somehow explain galaxies that don't need it?
- user-000
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Undergrad Regarding the accuracy of the description of a pulsar in a 1977 paper
- tade
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Undergrad Wow! signal could be from interstellar hydrogen clouds
- mfb
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Undergrad Comet A117uUD Goes Interstellar after Encountering Saturn in 2022
- Astronuc
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Undergrad Toward the spectral index in slow roll
- ergospherical
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Undergrad Density fluctuations in a homogeneous linearly expanding universe?
- Suekdccia
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High School Will we ever communicate with extraterrestial life in a reasonable time frame?
- KurtLudwig
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Undergrad What is the reason for density perturbations in the CMB?
- timmdeeg
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High School What Are the Mysterious Zig Zagging 'Stars' in the Night Sky?
- All year camper
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Undergrad Question on halos of matter made from massive and stable particles?
- Suekdccia
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High School Temperature difference between Venus and Mercury
- Agent Smith
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High School Asteroid Dimorphous easier to move because it's made up of rubble?
- DaveC426913
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Graduate N-Body inputs from Keplerian Orbits
- Shivi20
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Graduate Efficient cone searches with Healpix-alchemy
- BOAS
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Graduate Celestial objects - older than the CMB
- Phantom-objects
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High School Matter/Anti-Matter in a Vacuum
- keeney123
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Undergrad What Factors Create the Windiest Exoplanets?
- Tazerfish
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High School Big Bang as the Collapse of a Wave Function
- f00gass
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