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High School Space expanding or Time speeding up? Part 2
- CosmologyHobbyist
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Graduate End of Inflation: Definition, Meaning & Models
- Figaro
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High School Conservation of Energy and Expansion Redshift
- John Morrell
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Undergrad Where on the Moon should the first Moonbase be?
- Al_
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High School Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot Hiding a Massive Volcano?
- CosmologyHobbyist
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Graduate What is the formula for calculating the Ascendant?
- Jerky Jesse
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Undergrad Inflation, horizon-problem and thermal equilibrium
- haushofer
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High School What do the letters in the solar sail equation denote?
- Enis
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High School Is it possible to compress the space without gravity?
- Sandip Kumar
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Undergrad How to embed the universe in R^4
- Kontilera
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High School Edge of the Universe: Is It Real?
- John Morrell
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High School Black hole mass and sigma (velocity dispersion)
- Singlau
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Undergrad Spacetime Relativity: Universe Expansion & Our Place in It
- Anujkumar
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High School The Best Spot to Set Up a Colony on Mars
- lifeonmercury
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Undergrad Explain the orbital physics of the JAXA Tether experiment?
- SteveO33
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Undergrad Would the rogue planet in this picture slow Earths spin?
- Edward Barrow
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Graduate Space Radio Software: Get Help from Experts Now!
- Shubham Jaydeokar
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Undergrad Carolo Rovelli on infinity in LQC
- windy miller
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Undergrad Length of lunar month immediately after moon's formation?
- Althistorybuff
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Undergrad Can a planet have multiple large moons?
- Sherwood Botsford
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High School If the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate....
- Colm
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High School How do we know the stars are not our own light falling back.
- Colm
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Graduate How is the Trappist 1 system stable?
- Sherwood Botsford
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Graduate Orbit Estimation: Range & Doppler Measurements for Position & Velocity
- AT36
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Undergrad Mass and temperature relation in stars
- jamespompey2109
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High School Question about Hertzsprung-Russell-diagram
- Meerio
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Graduate Is the matter-antimatter annihilation observable in priciple
- Gerinski
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Graduate Cosmological Redshift distance to where it begins?
- rmpearlman
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Undergrad How Can I Improve My 2D Newtonian Gravity Simulator?
- Ben S
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Undergrad Dragging a wormhole into a black hole
- CA Mason
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High School Information paradox in black holes
- Blue Scallop
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Undergrad Uncovering the Hidden Lepton Number of the Universe
- snorkack
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Undergrad Clusters at center and periphery
- nomadreid
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Undergrad What causes the deceleration of a satellite? Space dust?
- Robert Scott
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Undergrad Probability of not entering de Sitter
- durant35
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High School Is the Earth Really 4.5 Billion Years Old or Much Older?
- geraud
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Undergrad Size and shape of a black hole singularity?
- kris kaczmarczyk
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High School Is There an Arctic Circle on the Moon?
- lifeonmercury
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High School How fast is Earth traveling due to the Hubble constant?
- Nick Levinson
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Undergrad Will interstellar travel become more possible in future
- Steven Hansel
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Undergrad On the Moon, could you melt dirt by focussing sunlight?
- Al_
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Undergrad Why are Lagrange points called libration points, and....
- nomadreid
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High School Are Black Holes linked to our Universe & Dark Energy/Matter?
- HARVEYU1E1
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High School Simplistic question about mass and gravity
- Noisy Rhysling
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Undergrad Big rip - order of distintegration?
- janq
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High School Fine Tuning Constants: Understanding Variables and Ratios | Physics NIST
- name123
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High School Could Microbes Really Thrive in the Clouds of Venus?
- lifeonmercury
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High School Is Dark Matter in the 100GeV range
- wolram
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High School What would happen to the Moon if (at full moon) the Earth disappeared?
- lifeonmercury
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Graduate What Does Prof Krauss Mean About False Vacuum Decay and Cosmology?
- Trollfaz
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High School How do you know the size/maximum area of a gravity field
- Steven Hansel
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High School What are the applications of solar sails?
- Enis
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Graduate Angular power spectrum, bias from N weighted events
- ChristianS
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High School Need Martian Regolith/Soil Simulant. JSC Mars-1
- jack h
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Undergrad Determining H value from scalefactor
- JohnnyGui
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Undergrad Have you ever wondered why we can't see the other side of the moon?
- akashpandey
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Undergrad Expanding universe and the Boltzmann brain problem
- analyst5
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Undergrad Do Red Dwarfs Favor Rocky Planets and Host Life?
- virgil1612
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Undergrad Why is it that Mercury rotates at a faster rate than say Pluto
- Sean
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Undergrad Can we colonize the Kuiper Belt?
- Al_
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High School Units for Entropy of Simple Black Holes
- muzukashi suginaiyo
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Undergrad Gravitational waves as means for communication
- Karlox
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High School What are the chances of evolution of organisms in space
- mohau tshekoeng
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High School Cause of Inflation: Link to Dark Energy & Quintessence?
- Tanelorn
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High School A question about an interesting article on dark matter
- Tanelorn
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Graduate Observational evidence for accelerating universe
- Gort
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Undergrad Shape of the universe -- Does it change with time?
- MathematicalPhysicist
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Undergrad Do Event Horizons always contain a singularity?
- FallenApple
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Undergrad How do we measure energy density of radiation?
- binbagsss
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Undergrad What Evidence Exists for the Universe Before the Cosmic Microwave Background?
- laymanB
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Undergrad Big Freeze and Law of convervation of energy
- Rodrigo Olivera
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Undergrad Guarding Mars' atmosphere with a magnetic shield
- infinitebubble
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Undergrad Effect of planetary layer densities on trajectories of a satellite
- Tahmeed
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High School A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far....
- mieral
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High School How can gravity act on a photon?
- Simon Peach
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Undergrad Was There Another Dimension Shaping Time Before Our Known Dimension?
- Fais
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High School Light Travel Time: Seeing the Past?
- Bammitzcam
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High School Cosmological Redshift: Where Has the Energy Gone?
- Glenn G
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High School Where Was Dark Energy Before the Accelerated Expansion Began?
- mieral
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Stargazing What is the Explanation for the SECCHI Image of Object Opening a Shield?
- infinitebubble
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High School What Saturn’s moon, Pan looks like
- BillTre
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High School Exactly how quantum tunneling leads to a Big Bang?
- Rodrigo Olivera
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Undergrad Could FRBs Power Extraterrestrial Light Sails?
- jim mcnamara
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Graduate How can neutron stars have magnetospheres?
- Cindy Hops
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Undergrad Q re early universe matter-antimatter annihilation
- Buzz Bloom
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Graduate Neutron Star EoS: Find the Equation of State
- Leonardo Machado
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Undergrad What is a Space-Time Crystal?
- dvdt
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Undergrad Predicted sizes of (observable) universe
- nomadreid
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High School What is the vacuum at the Karman line?
- mesa
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High School What are the most likely ways of finding Dark Matter?
- FelixH
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Graduate Space time expnasion, age of universe.
- Lacplesis
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High School Is 200my enough for galaxies to form
- wolram
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Undergrad Does Dark Energy drive up Entropy?
- FallenApple
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High School Are black holes perfect spheres?
- Alanay
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Graduate What is stochastic heating of very small grains?
- sonutabitha
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High School The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy?
- Goatman
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High School How Did the Universe Create Itself from Nothing?
- babbane9
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High School How is the Horizon Drop Calculated Due to Earth's Curvature?
- Axion
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High School Was there ever a state of nothingness?
- thetexan
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Undergrad Software for Analysis of FITS table/spectra
- SiuKing666
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