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High School What is the GZK Cut Off Point and why does it happen?

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High School Gravitational difference between a black hole and a star

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High School The Search for a Neutron Star or Black Hole Nearby

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Undergrad Gravitational difference between a black hole and a star

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Undergrad Are Stars and Planets Differentiated by Nuclear Processes in the Solar System?

  • A Alex P
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Undergrad Question about accelerating expansion

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Undergrad Is there a plan for a search for nearby black holes?

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Graduate Dark energy = cosmological constant, any problems with that?

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Undergrad Simulated Reality: Proving Our Universe Is Real?

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Undergrad Vertical axis of the CMB power spectrum

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Graduate Sufficient conditions for Rayleigh-Taylor instability

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High School Did the Big Bang create space and time?

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Stargazing Geomagnetic Storming: High Latitude Regions Alerted 15-18 Feb

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Undergrad Is Jupiter Responsible for the Majority of the Solar System's Angular Momentum?

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Undergrad What will happen to the Hubble value if dark energy is dynamic and decreasing?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad "Centaurus A Contradicts Dark Matter Models"

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High School How do scientists measure mass, radius, and distance in astronomy?

  • A Alex P
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High School Traveling to Mars and time dilation

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High School Mutually orbiting bodies in an isolated universe

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High School No Imbalance between Matter/AntiMatter

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Undergrad Colonies on Mars -- fundamental problem

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Undergrad Why is a statistical explanation for Baryon Asymmetry wrong?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Origin of the Moon: Latest Discoveries and Theories

  • Azurite
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High School The Universe without Cosmic Inflation?

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High School Colliding black holes effect on the Richter scale

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Graduate Difference between eclipsing binaries and exoplanets

  • A Alex P
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High School Lack of time dilation in type 1a supernova

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High School How Does the Midnight Sun Occur in the Arctic Region?

  • ANAMUL
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Undergrad Dark matter and old shell theorem

  • trouble
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High School Are the 3 space dimensions "equal"?

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Data Model of Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion

  • icecats
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Stargazing Does a Radio Telescope Have Aberration and How Does it Affect Its Performance?

  • Clear Mind
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Undergrad Does dark matter contribute to my body mass?

  • rootone
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Undergrad Getting the wrong multipole for 1st acoustic peak

  • DoobleD
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Undergrad The Trouble with TESS: Examining its Limitations in Exoplanet Observations

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Graduate Neutron star collisions as a heavy element source

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Undergrad Can two planets share the same orbit without catastrophic consequences?

  • Rifat amin
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Undergrad Can black dwarfs exist in the present Universe

  • rootone
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Undergrad Shape of the universe, and a few other questions....

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High School Can Friction Create Preferentially Circular Orbits?

  • Simon Peach
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Undergrad How does the distribution of elements change over time?

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Undergrad Will white dwarfs cool down to blue, then yellow, then red?

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Undergrad How Does the GAIA Program Count 1.7 Billion Stars in Its Image?

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High School Is an External Force Driving the Acceleration of Universe Expansion?

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Undergrad N-body Simulations: Density vs Circular Profiles

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Graduate This is the most active place in the universe

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Undergrad 10,000 black holes near Sagittarius A ?

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Graduate Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to Extract Quasar Spectra and Fit Models

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High School Massive Football Field-Sized Asteroid Comes Close to Earth

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High School Number of stars in the universe over time

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Stargazing Movement of Stars seen from the North Pole

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High School Are heliocentrism and geocentrism both correct?

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Undergrad What is the relationship between gravity and density?

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Undergrad Why Is Convection Efficient in the Outer Layers of Stars?

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Undergrad How does one actually compute a correlation function?

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Undergrad Calculating the incidence angle of the Sun

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Undergrad Stellar Thermal Energy with no Nuclear source

  • mjda
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Undergrad Observational evidence against expanding universe in MNRAS

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High School Orbit circularisation/insertion spreadsheet

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High School Is the Asteroid Belt's Shape Misrepresented?

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High School How dense was the first starfield we might have seen?

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Undergrad Source of the weather on Neptune

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High School What is the Earth's path in relation to the sun and the expanding universe?

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Undergrad Origin of the half factor in Euler-Lagrange for geodesics

  • Alex Petrosyan
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Undergrad The deviation of Universe expansion from general relativity

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Undergrad Dark Matter and who will discover it first?

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Undergrad How to describe the Sun's interior?

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High School What fraction of the matter in the universe is in black holes?

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High School Is the Milky Way the same as 'The Galaxy'?

  • Lukeblackhill
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High School Basic rule for Atmospheric Reentry of Glider Class vehicles

  • Laurie K
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High School Density of matter at a galactic center

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Expanding math space implies expanding space?

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High School Does Hubble's Law imply that galaxies are accelerating away

  • Elorm Avevor
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Graduate Comoving distance, causality volume and entropy

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High School Using Venus in the Parker Solar Probe mission

  • sophiecentaur
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Undergrad Where are the Constants of Nature stored in Multiverse?

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Undergrad Milky way arms and the position of the Earth

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Graduate Where can I find a text about heavy elements migration?

  • Guilherme Franco
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Super Blue Blood Moon: Did Anyone See It?

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Undergrad The Explanation for the Mass-Luminosity Relation

  • Ken G
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Undergrad Quantum foam ruled out by distant quasars

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Undergrad Relationship between star radius and luminosity

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Undergrad Are there any local effects of Einstein-de Sitter expansion?

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Undergrad Calculating recession vs attraction

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Undergrad Inter-Bubble Connections in Inflationary Multiverse Models?

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad Questions About Acceleration and Jerk in Orbits

  • AdrianGriff
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Undergrad The Role of magnetic field during the formation of small to medium scale stars

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Undergrad How do we measure the velocity of stars in a galaxy?

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Undergrad Has cosmic background radiation been measured underground?

  • Simon B
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High School North and South poles of Mars are at different temperatures?

  • sophiecentaur
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Undergrad Standard Solar Model: Learn About Its Complexity

  • Leonardo Machado
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Undergrad Diameter of a Galaxy: Calculate Distance/Arc Min?

  • NebulaBilly
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High School HiRISE images show strange-looking Mars formations

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High School Documentary about Hawkings contributions to science

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High School Speed of Light Puzzle: Is c a Localized Value?

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Undergrad Is a galaxy's halo displaced dark matter?

  • Mike Johnson
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High School Gravity of Universe A Million Years Ago: Affect Us?

  • OOF
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High School Why does the flag on the moon appear to be waving during the Apollo 13 mission?

  • Physics345
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Undergrad Star formation and heavy elements

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High School Chinese not sure where space station will land

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