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Undergrad Physical Significance of Eccentricity & Semi-Latus Rectum of Orbital Ellipse
- Clive Redwood
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Graduate Exact solutions of quintessence models of dark energy
- Diferansiyel
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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?
- cube137
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Undergrad Density of matter in the expanding Universe
- petrushkagoogol
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Undergrad "Moment of Inertia" in Virial Theorem
- throneoo
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High School What is beyond the edge of the universe?
- KoreanSniper0720
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High School The universe is shrunk a little bit more than we thought
- JDamian88
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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?
- dkm0038
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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?
- petrushkagoogol
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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
- Isheteyak Zaffer
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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'?
- Cyberspace
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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....
- chaszz
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High School Before the big bang video series
- rootone
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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
- Pjpic
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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
- Stephanus
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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
- mfb
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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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