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High School What's the deal with dark matter

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High School Can the Solar System's Chaos Lead to Earth's Sudden Demise?

  • wolram
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Graduate Entropy and derivations - is my logic faulty?

  • Nick Prince
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Undergrad New Kepler results (8th planet around Kepler-90)

  • mfb
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Undergrad Low mass limit of a neutron star

  • tzimie
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Undergrad Friedmann Equation - Positive Curvature

  • Arman777
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Insights A Poor Man's CMB Primer. Part 5: Quantum Seeds - Comments

  • bapowell
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High School Why does the multiverse theory have only 4 levels?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Does the multiverse really include ALL outcomes?

  • Suekdccia
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Stargazing Programable telescope that will point to any spot on Earth?

  • David Berger
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Graduate Does zero exist in the energy term?

  • SeM
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Graduate Equation of State w=1: Why Not Considered in Cosmology?

  • Demystifier
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Undergrad Are there galaxies with 2 cores?

  • Gerinski
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High School Do we see things slower the further away they are?

  • EmileJ
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Undergrad How to measure time in the early universe?

  • Cosmology2015
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Undergrad What is the acceleration of expanding space?

  • DAirey
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High School Can someone explain the Aguirre-Gratton model & how it works?

  • relatively-uncertain
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High School Is Everything in the Expanding Universe Growing Along with It?

  • Gedanken
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Undergrad How did time move forward during the Big Bang?

  • DAirey
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Stargazing Is it nebulosity or an artefact?

  • sophiecentaur
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High School How do astronomers find the "parallax angle" of a star?

  • Karagoz
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Stargazing For those aurora chasers -- a heads up

  • davenn
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Undergrad Is the Friedmann Space-Time Observable Without Dark Energy?

  • fresh_42
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Graduate Working with Keplerian Elements & Deriving Vernal Equinox

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate New high-redshift quasar age issue

  • sebastian_1
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Undergrad Transit Photometry: Questions about Detecting Exoplanets

  • le chat
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High School Spacetime Geometry: Understanding Causality & Effects

  • laymanB
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High School Unitarity and Entanglement: Examining the Fate of Information in Black Holes

  • Will K
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Undergrad How long would it take for gas to leak out of a space box?

  • Albertgauss
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Undergrad Expansion Rate of Cosmic Bubbles

  • Thuring
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Undergrad Entropy of the last scattering surface and today's universe?

  • Astrotek
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Graduate How to calculate ambient temperature in space or in orbit?

  • SoRobby
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Undergrad Quasar Number Densities and Lifetimes

  • aurora7790
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Undergrad Is high redshift data a problem for ΛCDM?

  • ohwilleke
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High School Optical eyepieces for star observations

  • bruha
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Undergrad Why Hasn't Mars Ice Core Samples Research Been Attempted?

  • Rubidium_71
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Undergrad Why is neutron star interesting to physics ?

  • Leonardo Machado
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Undergrad What happens if two black holes collide

  • Dalton Peters
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High School Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Study Proposes Alternative....

  • ISamson
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Undergrad Why is the time of formation of this Black Hole in question?

  • SWB123
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Undergrad Fly-by anomaly is back with Juno

  • mfb
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Undergrad What is the Cause of Space Expansion?

  • KurtLudwig
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High School Are there any SPH planet collision simulators?

  • MrQuack
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Undergrad Action Dynamics of the Local Supercluster

  • |Glitch|
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Undergrad Can someone explain the Higgs Boson and its significance in particle physics?

  • Souhardya Nandi
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High School A photon left galaxy G, 12 by ago and is reaching Earth now

  • Serifos
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Undergrad MUST every possible thing happen in a Tegmark L1 Multiverse?

  • andrewkirk
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High School How did this Black Hole come to exist?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Will the acceleration of the expansion of universe ever decrease?

  • Souhardya Nandi
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Undergrad Can Hubble Red Shifts be Gravitational Red Shifts?

  • Tom Mcfarland
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Undergrad Holographic principle versus no-cloning

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad GW170608 - Another Binary Black Hole Merger Observed

  • websterling
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Undergrad Maintaining interest in the new 'private' space race

  • Posy McPostface
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High School Balloon Analogy - 3D universe on a 2D plane

  • Souhardya Nandi
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High School Life is less likely on exoplanets

  • wolram
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High School Debate about how a light year can be used

  • Harshu Pande
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Undergrad CMB and the reference point for vacuum energy

  • nomadreid
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Stargazing Southern Sky Image: View the Southern Cross, Coal Sack & Omega Centauri

  • davenn
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High School Can the Sirius Star System Support Physical Life Amidst Its Unique Conditions?

  • bluecap
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Graduate What Factors Influence the Habitability of Exoplanetary Systems?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Tidal effects on Earth's rotation and moon's orbit

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Do Solar Tides affect Earth's Orbit?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Dark Matter and Dark Energy Conundrum

  • Charles Fichter
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High School De Sitter Equilibrium: Could it Exist in Heat Death?

  • laymanB
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High School Simulation: Our Solar System's Hyperbolic Residents

  • tony873004
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High School Jupiter's gravitational pull on the Sun and Earth

  • Glenstr
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High School What would happen if you take a piece of a pulsar

  • johnpro1
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High School Does the Universe have finite or infinite size?

  • fxdung
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High School Scale Invariance and dark matter/dark energy

  • aokrongly
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Undergrad Where in our solar system are asteroids that contain ammonia

  • Tristan27
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mysteries of Gravity: From Light Bulbs to Spiral Galaxies

  • Dan Nixon
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High School What if the universe's expansion is actually slowing down?

  • Robert Hoffmann
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Undergrad Can we experimentally understand the interior of a star?

  • Phys12
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High School Dark matter not found in globular clusters orbiting MilkyWay

  • Gordon Potter IV
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Undergrad Cosmological constant and rate of expansion of the universe

  • Ranku
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High School Is Scale Invariance the Key to Understanding the Expansion of the Universe?

  • wolram
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High School Implications of gravitational waves from the Big Bang?

  • laymanB
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High School Could time move inside a black hole?

  • whatdoctor
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Undergrad Could the Big Bang's Location Be Defined by Gravitational Forces?

  • Ozfer
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Undergrad Dark matter and energy may not exist?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad Could vacuum decay save multiverse ideas?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Could dark matter be just too reflective?

  • Jeth Orensin
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Undergrad How does the speed of light affect expansion acceleration?

  • Joe Fatuch
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Undergrad Is There an Extra Time Dimension in Paul Steinhardt's Cyclic Model?

  • lolofromfrance
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Undergrad What does wobbling in BGC reveal about the nature of dark matter?

  • Arman777
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Stargazing How hard is it to find filtered color bands using telescope?

  • spacetimedude
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Undergrad How Bright Would the Milky Way Look If It Had No Dust?

  • CygnusX-1
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Undergrad What % of the heavy elements are produced by kilonovas vs. supernovas?

  • bbbl67
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Undergrad What is the universe expanding into ? Eternal inflation

  • windy miller
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Graduate Milancovitch cycles and how they relate to seasons

  • caters
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High School Spacetime: Real or Not? LIGO Lab Explores Ripples

  • mr1batman
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High School Gravitational Wave Stretching: LIGO Arm vs Light

  • Alfred Cann
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High School Did a Star Go Supernova Twice?

  • mfb
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Undergrad Magnetic field of Solar System planets

  • Pedro de la Torre
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Undergrad Does Entropy Change on Horizons?

  • friend
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High School Acceleration of a proton/electron toward a neutron star

  • Starkiller
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High School The bizarre rotation of galaxies

  • Wallsy
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High School Sun's Expansion: Why Inner Planets Will Be Affected

  • shihab-kol
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Undergrad Exoplanet Climate: Can Planets Have Multiple Liquid Layers?

  • Brage Eidsvik
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Graduate What would happen if dark energy was injected into a black hole?

  • saitzan
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