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Stargazing Where's your favorite place to stargaze?

  • PhotonSSBM
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Stargazing Erecting eyepiece diagonal: opinions?

  • sophiecentaur
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Undergrad Finding Remnants of the Big Bang

  • ErikC
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Stargazing Image of Galaxy M83 by Dave: July 2016

  • davenn
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Undergrad Dark energy and conservation of energy

  • DoobleD
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High School Would we be able to completely stop time?

  • Tryannosaurus
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Undergrad How common is automation in Astronomy?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad What did we know about stars in 1950?

  • Octavianus
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High School Is there a unity across scale in the universe?

  • Mazeikas
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Undergrad A new exomoon candidate: Kepler-1625b I

  • mfb
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High School Space Stationary Orbit: Possible to Park Ship for 1 Year?

  • tionis
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Undergrad Virgo joins the measurement of gravitational waves

  • mfb
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High School Why don't galaxies obey gravity?

  • Wallsy
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High School Picture of "very" blue galaxy, good place for super nova?

  • Spinnor
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Undergrad Perlmutter presentation : pb on the age of the Universe

  • DoobleD
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High School Help me understand light traveling through vast distances in space

  • Wallsy
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Graduate Penrose: Noise in LIGO signal implies CCC

  • Auto-Didact
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High School How to debunk the idea we are the center of the universe

  • Justonequestion
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High School Can someone please identify what I saw? (lights in the night sky)

  • Perpetual Student
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High School Distance between two orbiting bodies

  • Vicara
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Undergrad IOAA 2nd problems: universe expansion

  • Petch Phumrapee
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High School How can light travel around an object in space?

  • Timvanhoomissen
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Undergrad What's the Latest Research on Gravitational Lensing?

  • Katia
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High School How to do the calculations showing the Universe is flat?

  • Joshua P
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Undergrad Galaxies moving away at the speed of light?

  • genphis
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High School Angular momentum, degeneracy pressure, and cosmic inflation

  • stoomart
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High School Big Crunch, Big Bang and information loss

  • BernieM
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Undergrad Proving equation for duration of transit

  • Erenjaeger
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Stargazing Did I Capture Pluto in My Backyard?

  • Andy Resnick
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High School Does observation *Determine* the past?

  • FallenApple
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High School Pulsar Beams: Spin, Wobble, & Projection

  • megacal
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High School What is the Unit for Gas Giant Planets in Astrophysics?

  • Erenjaeger
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High School Why are only hydrogen and helium created

  • david2
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High School Fast Radio Burst Pinned Down to Giant Stellar Nursery

  • CygnusX-1
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High School Do we exist within a singularity

  • benjamin1889
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High School Why didn't the Universe end up in a huge black hole?

  • Leonardo Muzzi
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Undergrad A copy of me in an infinite universe

  • weezy
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Graduate Gravity as space-time curvature?

  • Anthony DiGrazia
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Stargazing Can a Mobile Phone Capture the Beauty of the Night Sky?

  • DennisN
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Undergrad No detection of gravitational radiation

  • wolram
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Undergrad Planck length and space expansion/contraction

  • jcap
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Undergrad Why is inflation initial patch length ~ 1 Hubble length ?

  • DoobleD
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Undergrad Why the GUT epoch ended at ~10^-36 s ?

  • DoobleD
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Stargazing Vega & Arcturus: Amazing Telescope Photos

  • bruha
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Graduate Computer simulation of neutrino physics research

  • Ram C
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Undergrad Inflation: meaning of χ (chi) for time scales?

  • DoobleD
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Undergrad Quantum bits information lost in black holes

  • arlesterc
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Graduate Calculating Compound Angle b/w Planet & Earth-Sun Vectors

  • Philosophaie
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Undergrad Inflation lecture from Guth : why does d(ρ)/dt = 0 ?

  • DoobleD
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Undergrad Calculation of daily solar insolation

  • jones123
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Undergrad Are photons from the CMB being emitted from beyond our cosmological horizon?

  • Timvanhoomissen
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High School It's not sure but Andromeda will likely hit us -- Is this true?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Why hasn't the light from the CMB already passed us?

  • Timvanhoomissen
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Undergrad Solar system simulation -- Significant deviation of some Jovian moons

  • madsmh
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High School What Happens to Gases in Space and How Do They Behave?

  • Anon5000
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Undergrad Why invariable plane is tilted to ecliptic plane?

  • HelioGeo
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High School So why is space travel so hurdlesome again?

  • Anon5000
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Undergrad Will an elliptical orbit self-correct into a circular one?

  • Edward Barrow
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Undergrad Taking Projectile Motion to make Planetary Trajectories

  • 10Exahertz
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Undergrad The particle horizon value is ignoring inflation?

  • DoobleD
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Graduate Does Magnetic Braking Theory hold up?

  • Gfellow
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Undergrad What is the C_l in the Fisher Matrix For An CMB Survey?

  • xdrgnh
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High School Did Mass Exist in the Early Universe Before the Higgs Boson?

  • Brunolem33
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Undergrad Orbits -- radial verses perpendicular orbits & energy

  • Albertgauss
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Graduate The Big Bang model only deals with the known universe - True or False?

  • icantevenn
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Undergrad Stellar reddening via Av calculation

  • bruha
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Stargazing Anyone looking for the aurora tonight (July 16/17)?

  • jtbell
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High School Could dark matter and dark energy be the same thing?

  • friend
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Undergrad Computer friendly list of bodies in the asteroid belt?

  • madsmh
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High School Kepler's 3rd Law, geometric relationship?

  • Mr Joe Bangles
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Undergrad Where is a planet's gravity maximum?

  • rootone
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Undergrad Calculation of the hour angle of the Sun

  • jones123
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High School What is the relationship between brown dwarfs and giant gas planets?

  • |Glitch|
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Undergrad Propagation of a light ray : Multiply or not by factor

  • fab13
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Stargazing Is there a solution for auto-guiding issues with a Celestron CGEM telescope?

  • NFuller
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Undergrad The Big Bang: Exploding the Myth of a Center in Space and Time

  • Kristoffer
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Undergrad Understanding the Early Chronology of the Universe

  • Mr Davis 97
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Undergrad Do stars have any lower mass limit?

  • Sid
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Undergrad Observing Orbital Speed of stars within Galaxies

  • Strange design
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Undergrad Equilibrium chaotic environment

  • durant35
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High School Another Earth-like system near us

  • momo666
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Graduate How Does the Stiffness of Supernova EOS Change with Various Parameters?

  • silly_sheep
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High School Do black holes radiate antimatter?

  • friend
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Graduate Help With Constraining Parameters in Massive Gravity Action

  • xdrgnh
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Graduate Fisher Forecasting For EUCLID Survey Help

  • xdrgnh
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High School Inclinations of star orbits in the Milky Way

  • VladZH
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Undergrad Help with formula to calculate the precession rate change

  • phi
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High School What Are the Orbiting Objects Around Luhman 16AB Called?

  • |Glitch|
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High School Can this be another reason for dark energy?

  • Inderjeet Singh
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High School Sidereal Time and the Arctic Circle

  • MrsTesla
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Graduate Neutron star mass-radius relation plot

  • silly_sheep
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High School How many planets can we estimate in other galaxies?

  • davidge
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Undergrad Measuring distance to a galaxy using natural H20 laser

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School Effect of the Sun's Gravity on the Moon

  • Deepak K Kapur
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Stargazing Where can I find high resolution photos of distant stars?

  • AnotherParadox
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Undergrad New possible explanation for Hubble redshift

  • hilbert2
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Undergrad Radial BAO size method and Hubble parameter

  • shadishacker
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Undergrad Don Page - cosmological doomsday argument

  • durant35
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High School Can Kepler Data and Machine Learning Discover Habitable Exoplanets?

  • gdarie
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High School ? about oscillating models of the Universe and Entropy

  • huginn
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