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High School Beyond the standard model through 'mini spirals'
- wolram
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High School Is Weak Gravitational Lensing Enough Evidence to Confirm Dark Matter?
- wolram
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Undergrad Nebulosity around Pleiades stars
- virgil1612
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High School What is the link between ordinary and dark matter?
- Dee Flont
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High School Gravity waves and density perturbations
- Discman
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High School Quantisation of light and Doppler effect
- Vibin Narayanan
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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 Supermoon on 14 December
- 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 Why is dark matter accepted over modified gravity theories?
- 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 How does the Hoyle state of carbon form in stellar 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 How can future space travel overcome cosmic radiation exposure?
- wolram
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Undergrad How to extract dark matter mass from a hydrostatic study
- Jules Winnfield
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Undergrad Why does Andromeda appear farther away if it's moving toward us?
- Adamchiv
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High School Unanswered questions in cosmology according to Padmanabhan
- 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 Could a material withstand a black hole's tidal forces to pass through intact?
- 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 Can fermions forced together cause black hole formation like in 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 structures could explain 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 Is potential energy infinite if expansion creates unlimited energy?
- 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 Infinite potential energy for object falling from infinite distance?
- Noduagga
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Undergrad Fortran program for solar RA/declination and lunar phase
- Jadaav
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High School Supervoid/Cold Spot evidence of Hawking radiation?
- pittsburghjoe
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Undergrad What outward force stops a nebula from collapsing under gravity?
- Pauly doyle
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Stargazing Supermoon Monday: Closest Approach in 70 Years
- hagar
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Undergrad Could spacetime curvature create closed timelike curves?
- petrushkagoogol
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Stargazing Should you clean a Newtonian telescope mirror despite the risk?
- sophiecentaur
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High School Primordial black holes as dark matter candidates
- 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 Are Unruh and Hawking radiation the same phenomenon?
- backward
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Undergrad Why doesn't antimatter-annihilation energy condense back into matter?
- LightAmpzarus
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High School When are we "trailing" the Sun in its galactic revolution?
- xpell
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Undergrad How can dark energy make up 73% of the universe if energy takes no physical space?
- 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 Does universe age measured by supernovae agree across gravitational potentials?
- Doctor Strange
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Undergrad Realistic coasting cosmology from the Milne model
- Moncy Vilavinal John
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