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Undergrad Solar system's path in the Milky Way galaxy

  • mathman
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Undergrad Information for black hole region in surface surrounding it

  • arlesterc
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Undergrad Black hole - between horizon and singularity

  • arlesterc
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Undergrad Black hole - event horizon and Hawking radiation

  • arlesterc
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Undergrad What is the Cosmic Microwave Background and how can we observe it today?

  • Mr Davis 97
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Graduate What is the Concept and Calculation of Geodesic Deviation in Physics?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Forming Asteroids: Dust, Gas & Vacuum Mysteries

  • Jakko
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Undergrad Question on the particles that formed the Earth.

  • Damian79
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Undergrad Infinite Regress: Cosmologists' Answer to the Dilemma

  • momo666
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High School Measurements on the entire universe

  • Adel Makram
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High School Does gravity cause time dilation?

  • Chompers
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High School Enlarging Planetary Orbits: Evidence of the Solar System's Evolution?

  • Sanborn Chase
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Undergrad Reference point of geocentric lunar latitude?

  • jwberck
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High School Star trails and the Earth's movemement

  • hamischism
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High School Is Inertia Tied to the Stars According to Mach's Principle?

  • Torog
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Undergrad What would happen if I were 1 ly from a black hole merger?

  • Pete Muller
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Undergrad Why Does Physical Space Have 3 Dimensions?

  • Tom Mcfarland
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Undergrad What is the significance of systematic redshift and Mg II in astrophysics?

  • shadishacker
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Undergrad Why Doesn't the 11-Year Solar Cycle Affect the Sun's Magnetic Field?

  • Frank Einstein
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High School Is the concept of a multiverse just science fiction or a scientific possibility?

  • mohau tshekoeng
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Undergrad Why do galaxy and galaxy clusters look so colorful?

  • Riotto
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High School Would All Observers See a Warp Drive Spaceship at Constant Speed?

  • Negativebeef
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Undergrad Time Scale -- Does Time have uniform Scale?

  • STAR GIRL
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Insights What Is the Cosmic Background Radiation?

  • bapowell
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Undergrad Is there a consensus about the nature of dark matter?

  • MichaelMo
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High School Nothing, something and the Universe

  • kolo12
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Undergrad Problem interpreting a Distance-Redshift Plot

  • JohnnyGui
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Undergrad Dark matter and black hole interaction

  • infinitebubble
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Undergrad Neutrino flavour eigenstates and expansion of the universe

  • Carlos L. Janer
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High School Will Michigan Ever Get An Eclipse

  • Parker Hame
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Undergrad Explain about the information lost through black hole

  • Adinath
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Undergrad Comoving distance and redshift relationship derivation

  • DoobleD
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Undergrad Could the Light Crowd in Orbiting Black Holes Over Billions of Years?

  • zuz
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Undergrad How stuff in empty space cools down?

  • Quantum Velocity
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High School Question About The Stars -- Can they have died before we see their light?

  • TheQuestionGuy14
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Undergrad Experimental bound on the scalar spectral index

  • shinobi20
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Undergrad Photon Sphere and time travel around a Black Hole?

  • infinitebubble
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High School Could Our Location in a Supervoid Alter the Hubble and Acceleration Parameters?

  • Carlos L. Janer
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Undergrad Large wavelength and "fitting into" small spaces

  • snate
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Undergrad Why Aren't Galaxies Formed After the Big Bang Referred to as Being Further Away?

  • jwcole04
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Stargazing Dragon + Falcon 9 visible from Western Europe Saturday

  • mfb
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High School Why is the low entropic state of the early universe a puzzle

  • bland
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High School Earth-Sun Lagrange Points Distance Query

  • Dr Wu
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Graduate Do Friedmann-Lemaitre Equations Determine the Shape and Fate of the Universe?

  • Mikeal
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Undergrad Supernova - What would you see if watching one from close by?

  • BetaZeta2016
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High School Did we just discover the Milky Way is in middle of nowhere?

  • Tanelorn
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High School General Relativity Aces a Test at Supermassive Black Hole

  • CygnusX-1
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Undergrad Possible retrocausal events and time paradoxes

  • Trollfaz
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High School Hubble's constant and Minkowski spacetime

  • Chris Miller
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Undergrad How Black Holes Form: Neutron Collapse & Supernovae

  • Arman777
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High School The Hottest Giant Planet Yet: 7800 degrees F.

  • CygnusX-1
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Undergrad Red shift and the maths for gravity

  • trevor white
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Graduate Some questions about the PFSS model on IMF

  • Tianluo_Qi
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Graduate How To Do Fisher Forecasting For Constraining Parameters

  • xdrgnh
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High School Relationship Between Density and the Hubble parameter

  • mindarson
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Undergrad Why use velocity dispersion in Faber Jackson relation

  • Ron19932017
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Undergrad Are Aliens Listening? Evidence for Intelligent Life in Space

  • Schnellmann
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High School Our solar system and its fellows

  • Solomei
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High School Understanding Re-entry Perturbations After Inflation

  • Discman
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Undergrad I cannot figure out what I saw in this picture, help me

  • Armando Valle
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High School What is the atmospheric pressure on Pluto and how can it sustain gases?

  • John Dalton
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Undergrad Direct collapse to black hole without supernova?

  • sshai45
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High School What Drives the Accelerating Expansion of Space?

  • John M
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High School Singularities forming universes?

  • Thomas Clark
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Undergrad Why does physical space have to be three-dimensional?

  • Carlos L. Janer
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Undergrad Does the Planck length expand in a FRW universe?

  • jcap
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Undergrad What are the alternative theories for the end of the expanding universe?

  • durant35
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High School Map of Solar System: See How Far Away Planets Are!

  • jack action
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Undergrad About the Entropy of the Universe

  • STAR GIRL
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Undergrad New Gravitational Wave Detection question

  • thetexan
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High School Where Did the Energy Go in Light Waves When the Universe Expanded?

  • Daniel Petka
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Undergrad Questions regarding dark matter dynamics

  • Buzz Bloom
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Pictures of extraterrestrial space

  • wolram
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Undergrad Life permitting ranges for fine tuning constants

  • Beans56
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High School How do we know the size of the universe?

  • Lunct
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High School Can Primordial Black Holes explain Galaxy formations

  • wolram
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Graduate What Are the Stationarity and Limitations of the Standard Accretion Disk Model?

  • AstroLove
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Graduate What Is a 'Black Hole' & What Does It Mean for Particles?

  • Burt
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Undergrad What is the lower bound constraint for G in terms of anthropic principles?

  • windy miller
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Undergrad What happens to the information entering a Black hole?

  • STAR GIRL
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High School Does the expansion of space influence the passage of time across the universe?

  • Vincent Neave
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Stargazing Optimizing Polariscopic Alignment for Equatorial Mounts: Tips and Tricks

  • sophiecentaur
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Undergrad Where to find full core-to-surface profiles of stars?

  • solo_legend
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Insights Interview with Astronomer Pamela Gay - Comments

  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School First Direct Measurement of Brown Dwarf Mass Limit: 6.7% Sun

  • CygnusX-1
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Graduate Is the Universe Flat Without Volume?

  • ddjj77
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High School How Does Earth's Water Compare to Potential Ocean and Desert Planets?

  • lpetrich
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Graduate Calculating the power spectra of scalar perturbation

  • shinobi20
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Graduate Tension between recent dark matter results and Lux-Xenon?

  • jimgraber
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Graduate New ideas on the mechanism of solar CME's

  • davenn
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High School A Question about tiny tiny stars, and radiating heat

  • Chrono_13
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Undergrad Can an Atom Become a Black Hole?

  • Blop
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High School Does the geometry of space really change with gravity?

  • STAR GIRL
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Undergrad Interesting controversy about inflation models of the universe

  • kodama
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Undergrad Centre of mass of the observable universe

  • Richmonder
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Undergrad Comoving mass density leads to linear cosmology?

  • jcap
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High School Cepheid Variable Stars and Space-Time Warping

  • Uzbar Zibil Tarag
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Undergrad Understanding the Formation of Stars: A Look at Gravity, Gas Pressure, and Heat

  • Justonequestion
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High School How much effect does the moon's gravity/size have on Mars?

  • RICKYtan
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Graduate Variation of Hubble constant in cosmological time

  • spaghetti3451
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