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High School Quantisation of light and Doppler effect

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High School Will Voyager 2 Pass Sirius While Orbiting the Milky Way?

  • lifeonmercury
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Undergrad If there is life on Mars should people stay home?

  • BWV
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Stargazing Another supermoon to observe/photo

  • davenn
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High School Weird quantum property of empty space?

  • wolram
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High School Research Ideas For High School Student (Astrophysics/Cosmology)

  • Quds Akbar
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Undergrad Inflation and expansion of the universe

  • phtdegroot
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High School Cosmological constant vis-a-vis dynamical vacuum: bold challenging the ΛCDM

  • wolram
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Undergrad Is Dark Matter the Key to Understanding the Cosmos?

  • Pedraam
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Undergrad How big and how old is the Universe?

  • wwoollyyhheeaa
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High School Is the Cosmological Red Shift Evidence of Time Slowing Down?

  • Bill69
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High School Are inflatons the same as fewer gravitons?

  • Pjpic
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High School The Semi-Major Axis of Binary Stars

  • Tom MS
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Undergrad Percent of stars in our galaxy that belong to clusters?

  • Abdul.119
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High School Can we use technology to view the past through stars?

  • Hena Adlakha
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Graduate What is the Current Status of Cyclic Cosmology and its Relation to M-Theory?

  • Jim
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Undergrad Can the information of the whole universe change?

  • friend
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Undergrad Calculating the mass of a galaxy bulge

  • Jules Winnfield
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High School Neutron Stars and Angular Momentum

  • lavinia
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Undergrad Why are craters on the Moon nearly all circular?

  • sophiecentaur
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High School Is the smooth dark matter deBroglie's subquantic medium?

  • Dee Flont
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Undergrad How do I compare a model to logarithmic data?

  • Jules Winnfield
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High School Trying to study the major constellations

  • lifeonmercury
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Undergrad How is the arrow of time defined?

  • hailzeyy
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High School Mass of Sun/stars (elemental/molecular vs. plasma)

  • hollowman
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High School So I don't understand moon eclipses

  • farolero
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Graduate Gravitational waves in warm inflation

  • shinobi20
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Undergrad Scale of a in MOND and cosmological constant

  • kodama
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Stargazing Can Pluto be seen with amateur telescopes?

  • Andy Resnick
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High School Creating Universe from "Nothing": Astrophysicists Debate

  • Adamchiv
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Undergrad Chemical Life Possible in Brown Drafw Atmospheres?

  • BillTre
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High School Galaxy Clusters, Masses and Radius

  • Jules Winnfield
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High School Why do we still see cosmic background radiation

  • SanderStols
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Undergrad Does time dilation prevent event horizon formation?

  • Petr Matas
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High School What is the Hoyle State of Carbon and How Does it Contribute to Star Fusion?

  • lavinia
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Undergrad Can a gravitational wave (GW) propagate in a flat universe?

  • grauitate
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Graduate Flatness Problem Differential Equation

  • gchmh
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High School Can Fuzzball Theory Replace Black Hole Singularity?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Converting galactical coordinates to horizontal/geographical coordinates

  • Tegalad
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High School Progress direction of the Aldebaran occultation by the moon

  • EnigmaticField
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Graduate Space Travel: Overcoming Cosmic Radiation Challenges

  • wolram
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Undergrad How to extract dark matter mass from a hydrostatic study

  • Jules Winnfield
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Undergrad Solving the Andromeda Problem: A Newbie's Guide

  • Adamchiv
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High School What Lies Beyond Our Understanding of the Cosmos?

  • wolram
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High School Cold or warm dark matter or a mixture

  • wolram
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Undergrad Sight and light travel are not the same.

  • Tim Layton
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High School Can Anything Survive a Black Hole's Gravitational Pull?

  • AlkamlBan
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High School Is Electromagnetic Radiation a Key Factor in Intergalactic Space Expansion?

  • stoomart
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High School How do we study space-time singularities?

  • Pbody101
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Undergrad Could Light Cones Actually Curve Inward Towards the Big Bang?

  • Edgar L Owen
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High School Mars' Global Sandstorm: Causes and Effects

  • Singlau
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Undergrad Could Anisotropic Expansion Explain the Dark Matter Effect?

  • Edgar L Owen
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Where Can I See the Milky Way Near Washington DC?

  • somebodyelse
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High School Huge amounts of water ice found on Mars

  • mfb
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Undergrad Euclidean differential number counts of supernovae

  • resurgance2001
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High School Early state of Universe and the "size" of Universe

  • Mohd Abdullah
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Undergrad Black Hole Formation: Fermion Pressure & Neutron Stars

  • kent davidge
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High School Can we build a four dimensional compass?

  • SleepDeprived
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Undergrad How do cosmologists view loop quantum cosmology?

  • kodama
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High School How to measure the amount of gravitational lensing?

  • exmarine
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Undergrad System simplification through state space

  • Guillem
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High School What could explain the existence of The Great Attractor?

  • rrw4rusty
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Undergrad Why is the Primordial Power Spectrum Defined as P(k) = (k^3)/(2π^2)|w_k|^2?

  • shinobi20
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High School Is time dilation accounted for in calculating expantion

  • JTP3167
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Undergrad Objective classification of spiral galaxies

  • henrco
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High School If energy is created with expansion and it has no limit....?

  • Noduagga
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High School Why gas clouds collapse if the forces are conservative?

  • fbs7
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Undergrad Are Red Dwarfs Home to Earth-Sized Water Worlds?

  • |Glitch|
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Stargazing North American nebula from this past summer

  • spark802
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High School If an object runs an infinite distance in universe....?

  • Noduagga
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Undergrad RA and declination of Sun & phase of Moon program

  • Jadaav
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High School Supervoid/Cold Spot evidence of Hawking radiation?

  • pittsburghjoe
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Undergrad Collapsing Nebulae: Outward Force of Gas Explained

  • Pauly doyle
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Stargazing Supermoon Monday: Closest Approach in 70 Years

  • hagar
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Undergrad Could Space-Time Curvature Enable Time Loops?

  • petrushkagoogol
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Stargazing Dust on the Mirror: Is Cleaning Worth the Risk?

  • sophiecentaur
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High School Are Primordial Black Holes the Key to Dark Matter?

  • wolram
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Stargazing Is Your Camera's Sensor CCD or CMOS?

  • Andy Resnick
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High School Flatlanders in the 3rd dimension "Hyperspace"

  • ChrisisC
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Undergrad Why exactly does the ocean bulge on both sides of the Earth?

  • vector
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Undergrad How do inflatons and gravity interact?

  • Pjpic
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High School Unruh & Hawkins Radiation: A Comparative Analysis

  • backward
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Undergrad Unraveling the Mystery of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in the Early Universe

  • LightAmpzarus
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High School When are we "trailing" the Sun in its galactic revolution?

  • xpell
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Undergrad Dark Energy: How Can ~73% Of Universe Exist?

  • Bradfordly1
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High School Is it possible to visualize the big bang?

  • SamRoss
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High School Does antimatter fit into the standard model

  • wolram
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High School Can entropy be measured in a singularity of infinite density?

  • Feeble Wonk
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Insights A Poor Man's CMB Primer. Part 2: Bumps on a Blackbody - Comments

  • bapowell
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Undergrad Why is the ISS at a 51.6 degree orbital inclination?

  • Jonathan Scott
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Undergrad China launches X-ray Pulsar NAVigation satellite

  • arabianights
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Undergrad Is Constant Mass Density in the Universe Linked to the Casimir Effect?

  • Esfand Yar Ali
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Undergrad Are all planets in our Solar System in the same plane?

  • petrushkagoogol
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Undergrad Can Time be Measured Absolutely w/ SNe Ia Near a Black Hole?

  • Doctor Strange
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Undergrad Realistic coasting cosmology from the Milne model

  • Moncy Vilavinal John
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Undergrad Converting Planck data for spherical projection

  • localstarlight
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Undergrad Revolutionize Space Travel with Innovative Vacuum Launch Method

  • udtsith
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Undergrad Dark Matter PBHs: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence Against Axions and WIMPs

  • wolram
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Graduate Velocity Dispersion: Meaning & Difference Explained

  • J Azeez
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High School Rosetta's comet mission discussion thread

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