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Undergrad Plotting the orbits of the planets
- Astro Student
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Undergrad What computer science would you need for astrophysics?
- victorhugo
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High School Entropy change during the formation and death of stars
- Valli RM
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Undergrad Gravitational acceleration and the baryon distribution
- member 342489
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High School Is Spacetime Actually a Superfluid?
- wolram
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Undergrad Light fluctuations and finding exoplanets
- Paul Colby
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Undergrad Would Heat Death overcome Strong Nuclear Force?
- Gerinski
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High School Combine a horizon line with expansion
- newjerseyrunner
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Undergrad Is something pulling our universe?
- Plup
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High School Shapes and gravitational radiation
- wolram
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Undergrad Gravitating particles and entropy
- Student100
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High School Coordinated galactic bangs instead of big bang
- Wolfgang Konle
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Undergrad How would dark matter aggregate?
- haruspex
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High School Unknown source of some X-rays in our solar neighborhood
- wolram
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Graduate How do we explain universal complexities?
- Timedial
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High School When to see aurora borealis in Lincoln, NE?
- aheight
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Undergrad Average size of the biggest G-bound structures in the Universe
- tzimie
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High School 'Strong signal' from sun-like star sparks alien speculation
- Garth
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High School Does water pressure decrease in zero gravity?
- allister109
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Undergrad Lunar versus Solar orbit at solstices
- grisly
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Undergrad Calculating black hole mass, radiated energy, and distance from gravitational waves
- Meerio
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Graduate New Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) Data Release
- patmurris
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Undergrad What would a universe look like if it had 2 time dimensions?
- Mathijsgri
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High School What do you think of the "Now Hypothesis"?
- Hunter235711
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Graduate Did the LUX Dark Matter Experiment Fail to Detect Dark Matter?
- Garth
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Graduate How much energy to fly Spaceships from sci -fi movies
- Yolanda2016
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High School Graph of rotation curve of a cluster (not a galaxy)
- Buckethead
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High School Astrophysics Science Fair Project Ideas?
- astro_chara
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Graduate What motivates the theory of cosmological perturbations?
- spaghetti3451
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Undergrad What's the feasibility of space mining companies?
- ramzerimar
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Graduate Quantum fluctuations in early universe
- spaghetti3451
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High School What is the initial temperature of the Big Bang?
- wolram
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Graduate Photon densities within galtactic disc compared to CMB
- UHECRon
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High School Delta-v for orbit if already at ideal velocity and altitude?
- Treva31
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Stargazing H.E.S.S. gamma ray telescope got an image of the moon
- Noduagga
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Undergrad Why are stars grouped in galaxies?
- TheDoctor46
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High School Why use the hydrogen frequency times pi for alien signals
- Stephanus
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Undergrad How to Calculate Longitude and Latitude Speed from Cartesian Values?
- cptolemy
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Stargazing Amateur Astrography: Stitching Together Large Fields of View
- Andy Resnick
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Undergrad How close can planets orbit without destabilizing each other?
- QuantumPowered
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High School Why do main sequence stars have different colors if they all fuse hydrogen?
- jordankonisky
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Stargazing Can a Planet Have Multiple Moons with Unique Orbital Patterns?
- Lymsleia
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High School Aerogel comet particle capture experiment?
- houlahound
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Insights A Poor Man's CMB Primer. Part 4: Cosmic Acoustics - Comments
- bapowell
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High School What is the total size of the Asteroid Belt in kilometers?
- eurus
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High School Simulating orbit trajectory based on position and velocity
- AlenC
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Undergrad Does LQC Resolve the Information Paradox Without Complementarity?
- windy miller
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High School What came first, matter or energy?
- Aaron1947
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Graduate Can Time Scale Change Analogously to Spatial Expansion?
- TheCanadian
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Undergrad What is the average number of planets per star?
- Abdul.119
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High School Can a Moon-sized body pull Earth's crust upward during a collision?
- Noisy Rhysling
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Undergrad Spacetime and effects of being super close to the Sun
- Justawildwonder
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Stargazing Processor power for entry level Astrophotography
- sophiecentaur
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Undergrad Scale invariance in the power spectrum
- windy miller
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High School Can Non-Rigid Spacesuits Provide Adequate Protection for Space Travel?
- GTOM
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High School Capturing a distant planet's light
- Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Newtonian theory of cosmological perturbations
- spaghetti3451
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Graduate Cosmological perturbations in homogeneous and isotropic spac
- spaghetti3451
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Stargazing GAIA - 1 billion stars and counting
- Borg
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Graduate Can black holes convert matter/dark matter?
- Khashishi
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High School Regression of Universe: Is Time Repeatable?
- petrushkagoogol
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Undergrad How to determine a planet's size given gravity
- ckirmser
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Undergrad How does space expansion increase the observable universe beyond 13.7 billion light-years?
- yazanhomsi
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Graduate Can fermions violate Pauli exclusion at a black hole's event horizon?
- Alfred Cann
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High School Why is planet X always depicted as being blue?
- Tris Fray Potter
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Undergrad How to derive full solar sprectrum from gamma rays
- jordankonisky
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High School Van Allen Belt "mirror points"-- How do these work?
- Chris Frisella
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Undergrad Does time flow faster in intergalactic space far from gravitational fields?
- Greta
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High School What is the significance of the spooky alignment among quasars?
- wolram
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Graduate Why are all Einstein rings blue?
- Oscar01
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Undergrad How can I find journals about this discovery?
- Abdul.119
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Undergrad Can Gravitational Lensing Be Caused by Refraction?
- Oscar01
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High School Are There Really Hundreds of Black Holes in NGC 6101?
- wolram
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High School Why Quantum loop or string theory
- wolram
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High School Do we currently have interstellar com capabilities?
- newjerseyrunner
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Undergrad Is there a point during star formation when gas is 1 atm?
- Artlav
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High School Very close asteroid pass in a few hours
- tony873004
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High School How do stars orbit the center of the Milky Way?
- Irfan Nafi
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High School What form does synthesized gold take when ejected from supernovae?
- tionis
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Undergrad How Big is a Planet with a 5000mph Rotation and a 52-Hour Day?
- Amber_smith
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High School When Did the First Stars in the Universe Form?
- wolram
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High School What kind of supernova do binary neutron stars produce?
- Irfan Nafi
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High School Why Do Stars Show Both Emission and Absorption Spectra?
- Nishantkumar19
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Undergrad Calculating distance, object speed, etc - RE:Falcon9
- InquiringMindaloo
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Undergrad Can radio waves image subsurface layers of planets?
- Noduagga
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Undergrad Difference between omega 0 and omega k
- windy miller
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Undergrad Is an integral over phase space reasonable?
- Hyla Brook
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High School Observing zodiacal light before morning twilight
- jim mcnamara
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Undergrad Early opaque universe - why little proton-photon scattering?
- Lapidus
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High School Solar Energy at Mars: How Much Can Be Produced?
- Allen_Wolf
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High School Can we know what exists in planets' subsurfaces?
- Noduagga
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Stargazing Viewing the Pleiades through binoculars and a telescope
- sophiecentaur
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High School Could dark matter be regular matter?
- kolleamm
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High School What is the next step in cosmology
- wolram
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Undergrad Hawking Radiation: Explaining the Evaporation Effect
- thetexan
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Graduate What Lies Between the CMB and the First Stars?
- Gerinski
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Stargazing How Does Hubble's Field of View Compare to Amateur Telescopes?
- jordankonisky
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Undergrad Trying to solve the restricted two-body problem
- tomwilliam2
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Stargazing Kepler Telescope Views Single Point in Space 4.2ly Away
- bill ginger
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Graduate Does zero curvature mean the universe is infinite?
- arupel
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