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Undergrad Physical Significance of Eccentricity & Semi-Latus Rectum of Orbital Ellipse

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Graduate Exact solutions of quintessence models of dark energy

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High School Can the space (or else measurable) be actually infinite?

  • Dmitri Martila
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High School What cancel the quantum contributions in Cosmological Const?

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Undergrad Density of matter in the expanding Universe

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Undergrad "Moment of Inertia" in Virial Theorem

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High School What is beyond the edge of the universe?

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High School The universe is shrunk a little bit more than we thought

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High School What does a black hole look like from the inside?

  • GiantSheeps
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Graduate Change in average atomic mass in universe through time?

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Undergrad View of a Void: Intergalactic Space & Dark Energy

  • Gary0509
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Undergrad Flatness Problem: Critical and Actual Density

  • windy miller
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Undergrad Gravitational field inside a void

  • Bill McKeeman
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Undergrad What Makes Black Holes Black and White Holes White?

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Undergrad Where is the dead star that created us?

  • Sebastiaan
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High School Albedo, atmosphere, and predicted temperature of Venus

  • Battlemage!
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Graduate 1st and 2nd moments of H(mu) function

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Graduate Planar orbit of planets around sun

  • Shubham135
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High School Is fusion in an accretion disk of a black hole possible?

  • Irfan Nafi
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High School Do Atoms in Neutron Stars Touch Each Other?

  • Jake52902
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High School Are colors in astro photos 'real'?

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Undergrad Why do Great Oppositions of Mars Always Happen at the Same Time of Year?

  • aj gokhale
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Undergrad How can inhabitants of moon guess of its revolution

  • aj gokhale
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Undergrad Default 'now' when discussing astronomical things

  • Grinkle
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High School Question pertaining to dark energy

  • Physics1218
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Undergrad Where galaxies are now or is there a universal 'now'?

  • ebos
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Undergrad Some questions regarding the initial singularity

  • momo666
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High School Why Were Planets Visible to Ancient People but Not Us?

  • lucivaldo
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High School Why does the Great Red Spot spin counter-clockwise?

  • Irfan Nafi
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High School Could Dark Matter Be the Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Inflationary Energy: Origins & Conversion

  • windy miller
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High School Can the space to have new properties without researching?

  • James Piozza
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Graduate What Are the Next Greatest Effects on the Moon's Motion?

  • Buchanan
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Graduate What happens to the red dwarf during a classical nova?

  • Tish62
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High School Before Big Bang: Can We See What's Beyond?

  • Mary Space
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Undergrad Infinity vs Expansion: Is an Infinite Universe Compatible with Expansion?

  • thetexan
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Graduate Do cosmologists take spontaneous symmetry breaking seriously?

  • Carlos L. Janer
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Graduate Charge balance in observable universe

  • Keith12345
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Graduate Synthetic Black Hole Event Horizon Created in UK Laboratory

  • SF
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Stargazing Will You Be Watching the Perseid Meteor Shower?

  • ProfuselyQuarky
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Undergrad The declination at the horizon in the east at a latitude

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate What are the most common programming languages in astro?

  • Omega Force
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Undergrad How is it possible for a ring singularity?

  • Irfan Nafi
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High School Understanding the Perseid's Motion in Relation to the Sun

  • Vrbic
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Undergrad Is Redshift Always Proportional to Velocity?

  • JohnnyGui
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High School What Makes the Sun's Gravity Well So Deep Compared to Earth's?

  • Dr Wu
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Undergrad Could Chemistry Occur in Titan's Hydrocarbon Lakes?

  • Ontophobe
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Stargazing What telescope is best for a beginner on a budget?

  • guync5
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High School Does LIGO detect back ground noise

  • wolram
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High School Is the Milky Way unique or do other galaxies have these voids in their centers?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Perhaps an unknown property of gravity....

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High School Before the big bang video series

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High School How Did Light Originate After the Quark Epoch?

  • Aaron1947
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High School Is there a such thing as being outside of our sun's gravitat

  • IgnorantofPhysics
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Undergrad What Triggered the Big Bang Singularity's Expansion?

  • Aaron1947
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Undergrad Hubble parameter in terms of the scale factor

  • Figaro
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Undergrad Is the boundary of a star objective or subjective?

  • Gerinski
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High School Could a New Field Explain Dark Matter's Role in the Universe?

  • bluecap
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Undergrad Astronomers make first accurate measurement of oxygen in distant galaxy

  • Ali Salamat
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High School Some more basic questions on Dark Energy

  • rede96
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High School Is the Andromeda Galaxy Green Shifted and How is Red Shift Measured in Practice?

  • Yolander
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Undergrad How is motion in space different than motion in spacetime?

  • Pjpic
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High School How does the Universe's expansion relate to Newton's 1st law

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Stargazing Telescope Design: Calculating Total Distance from Primary Mirror to Eyepiece

  • Mitchell316
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High School Explanation of the asymmetry of the Universe

  • Megnetto
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Graduate Venus to be humanity's next destination?

  • twiz_
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High School Gravitational Orbit: How Size Determines Distance & Speed

  • Sveral
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Undergrad What Does Absolute Magnitude in the B Filter of a Distant Galaxy Refer To?

  • RingNebula57
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High School The Milky Way's Dark Twin Revealed

  • CygnusX-1
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Undergrad Why is the density infinite at the singularity?

  • windy miller
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High School What caused the uneven distribution of mass/energy?

  • lucivaldo
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Stargazing What should I observe in Southern Skies during my trip to South Africa?

  • russ_watters
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High School What Would the Moon's Apparent Magnitude Be 1000 Times Closer?

  • RingNebula57
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Undergrad Is Superdeterminism the Key to Understanding Our Universe?

  • PhysicsClown
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Undergrad Focus of Earth's elliptical orbit

  • avito009
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Undergrad Does Mass Bend Time?

  • Gurjeet210
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Graduate Can Dark Energy be eventually infinite?

  • Gerinski
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High School Vectors & Gradients: Confused? Get Answers Now!

  • Hayden Herzberger
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Undergrad Is Jupiter too big to orbit the Sun?

  • Oganesson
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Undergrad Quasar Brightness: A Case of Light-Days or Light-Years?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad How do I convert the number of efolds to conformal time during inflation?

  • Xepto
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Graduate Need help with satellite navigation? Any textbook recommendations?

  • Matter_Matters
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Undergrad How can the integral be rewritten using a change of variables?

  • Lapidus
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High School Hubble flow and velocity addition

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Undergrad Rotation curves of galaxies as a function of isolation.

  • WCOLtd
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Undergrad First atmospheric spectroscopy of Earth-sized exoplanets

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Graduate Whats the genesis of quantum foam,planck constant, & string

  • lucivaldo
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Undergrad Difference between hubble sphere,particle horizon and event

  • Figaro
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Undergrad What is the significance of the cosmological jerk in the expanding universe?

  • Ontophobe
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Undergrad Is Infinity Inevitable in Our Understanding of the Universe's Beginning?

  • windy miller
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Stargazing Radio Telescope Building Guide for Beginners

  • jamalkoiyess
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Undergrad Where do high energy background photons go?

  • fxdung
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Undergrad Explore the Immense Universe with the Incredible 3D Map | CS Monitor

  • Tom.G
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Undergrad Can Unification of Forces Coexist with an Eternally Inflating Universe?

  • Ranku
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High School Where Can I Find Math for Black Hole Firewalls?

  • MrPhysicsGuy
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High School Is the Speed of Light Dependent on the Size of the Universe?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Who really found out the Universe's acceleration?

  • Phys12
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Undergrad Relations resolves singularity -- new paper on arxiv

  • windy miller
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Undergrad How Similar Are the Images from BOSS and CMB Planck Spacecraft?

  • exponent137
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Undergrad Which light do we use to measure flux?

  • Phys12
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