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High School What's the deal with dark matter
- Snooch
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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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