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High School Possible explanations for meteor like observations?

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Undergrad Early large galaxy studies

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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

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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

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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

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