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High School How black hole Sgr-A* Was Found

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Undergrad Is there an equivalent "redshift" for cosmic rays due to expansion?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad The Evolution of Galactic Scale Cosmic Voids

  • Suekdccia
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Graduate What is the maximal comoving distance that a space probe can reach?

  • Omega Force
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Undergrad Solar anomaly and the Antikythera Mechanism

  • Bobhare
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Undergrad Vacuum up-tunneling with high-energy events?

  • Suekdccia
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High School TV Series: 3 Body Problem - affects gravitational force?

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate A question from a paper on perturbation theory

  • Safinaz
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High School Terminology for motion in the solar system, ecliptic maybe?

  • Albertgauss
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Stargazing Eye protection while watching a total solar eclipse

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Graduate Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker model

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Undergrad Atmospheric escape parametre statistics

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Undergrad Stellar evolution path and Regression line

  • hongseok
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Undergrad How Does the Size of Neutron Stars Compare to Black Holes?

  • davLev
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Graduate Atmospheric Density Required for Mercury´s Polar Regions to be Warm?

  • snorkack
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Undergrad How Can Measured Satellite Magnitudes Be Converted to Radiant Intensity?

  • Jd1431
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Undergrad Is the Sun's photosphere fluorescent?

  • synch
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High School Layman's summary of water telescope experiments

  • Devildog
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High School Photographing a solar eclipse with a smartphone (safely)

  • Andy Resnick
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High School Why isn't there an effort to name non-stellar celestial objects?

  • Nathi ORea
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High School Rock Found in Field Turns Out to Be 4.6GY Old Meteorite

  • Keith_McClary
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Undergrad Fourier transform of the density fluctuation

  • happyparticle
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Graduate How do I determine the surface magnitude of a galaxy from a SED?

  • AdrianD
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Undergrad What is the Freeze-Out Temperature of WIMP Particles?

  • happyparticle
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Undergrad What are the Dynamics and Impacts of a Type II Supernova?

  • RyanJ
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Undergrad Why Does Spectral Line Darkening Occur Despite Photon Re-Emission?

  • Joe Prendergast
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High School How Is Solar Wind Temperature Measured?

  • jefo
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High School What is the difference between a rocky planet's core and the Sun's core

  • trevorjobo83
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Undergrad Adding more meteorites to my collection

  • davenn
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High School Can the force of gravity overcome the Planck force?

  • mister i
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Undergrad Is Gravitational Red-Blue Shift Dismissed in Cosmic Observations?

  • trevorjobo83
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High School Do we 100% know what the geometry of the Universe is?

  • user079622
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Undergrad Do the Sachs-Wolfe and Rees-Sciama Effects Influence Matter?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Can Spacetime be Torn According to Quantum Theory of Gravity?

  • singularity18
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Undergrad Relationship Between Expansion and Curvature in the Universe

  • Jaime Rudas
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Undergrad How Does Curvature Density Parameter Affect Universe Flatness?

  • Ranku
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High School Could Dark Energy be an (unknown) dark force acting at great distances?

  • mister i
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High School How did ancient astronomers track changes in positions of stars?

  • syfry
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High School Question about Hawking Radiation and Iron Stars

  • Khursed
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High School Did I Capture Sunspots in My Summer Sunset Timelapse?

  • Glenstr
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Undergrad Boltzmann equation for annihilation

  • happyparticle
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Sample and Return of Asteroid Bennu - live on Oct 20, 2020 at 1720 GMT

  • Tom.G
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Help Identifying rock or meteorites

  • leerace
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Undergrad Separation angle between pulsars detecting Gravitational Waves

  • zinn
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Stargazing What is an arcsec and how do I convert it into AU or m?

  • marc873a
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Undergrad Voids, dark energy and tidal forces...?

  • Suekdccia
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High School Where does the original singularity get its energy from?

  • Arasvo
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High School What Does the Astro Physics Equation from Lewis Season 8 Episode 2 Mean?

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Why Does Gravity Remain when Star Mass Dissipates?

  • ahandyman59
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Graduate Could Re-Analyzing Redshifts Reveal New Physics?

  • sbrothy
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Stargazing Is There an Unidentified Object Near the Horsehead Nebula?

  • russ_watters
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High School Cosmic Graviton Background and Primordial Gravitational Waves

  • windy miller
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High School What Medium Does Light Travel Through in Space?

  • rekha1804
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High School Is the barycentre of the Pluto - Charon system also the L1 point?

  • Cerenkov
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High School Debunking Bat and Skull Nebulae fakery

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate Why Is the Hamiltonian Approach Preferred for the Restricted Three Body Problem?

  • slyrice
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Undergrad Plotting the orbits of the planets from Ephemeris data

  • Jor
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High School Observable universe and overlapping spheres

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High School How would physics change if Planet 9 were a primordial black hole?

  • Maximum7
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High School Celestial plane orientation to the galactic core

  • AutodiJack
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Undergrad Help identifying this Tumbling object in a night sky photo from Namibia

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High School Dark matter and extreme gravitational regimes

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Undergrad On Quanta article on the recent tensions of cosmology

  • pines-demon
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Undergrad Calculating the End of the Universe Using Standard Deviation Statistics

  • TomVassos
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Undergrad Why Do Stars in Binary Systems Assume a Teardrop Shape?

  • Joe Prendergast
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Undergrad Mass in an expanding or static spherical distribution of matter

  • Ranku
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High School Is perpetual motion a forbidden topic in the scientific community?

  • robotkid786
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Undergrad Questions about the Location of the Big Bang and the Age of the Universe

  • SilverMain
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High School Comoving distance constant with increasing redshift?

  • FritzK
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Undergrad How does flux density scale with redshift?

  • givingup
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Graduate Numerical evolution of Einstein-Boltzmann equations in cosmology

  • chirag1
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Graduate Gravitational Instability and accelerated explanation of Universe?

  • say_cheese
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Undergrad Can Hawking Radiation Exist If Nothing Escapes a Black Hole?

  • Walrus
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Graduate What is Faraday pulsation and how does it impact radiative transfer?

  • Getterdog
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Undergrad Photons being blueshifted when crossing evolving voids?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Falling into a massive black hole is not necessarily noticeable

  • Kekkuli
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Graduate What Is the Scale Length in SPARC Data Analysis?

  • mike_brandt
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Undergrad Big bang at the edges of the Universe?

  • Bombu
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High School What is the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem?

  • relatively-uncertain
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Undergrad Does dark-energy require a source of energy?

  • Herbascious J
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Undergrad Rotation curves and apparent mass of a galaxy

  • mike_brandt
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Undergrad Could the Universe Be Much Older Than 13.8 Billion Years?

  • eepshteyn
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Undergrad Is there any mechanism possible for the Big Brake?

  • Trollfaz
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Undergrad How Does Inverse Bremsstralung Affect Photon Absorption?

  • Getterdog
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High School Nuclear Fusion in the Singularity

  • Th_Kramer
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High School How long is the start up time for a simulation of the solar system's formation?

  • syfry
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Stargazing Betelgeuse will be eclipsed by an asteroid

  • mfb
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Undergrad Einstein ring and Einstein Cross

  • hongseok
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Undergrad How Do Moons Influence the James Webb Telescope's Position at Lagrange Point L2?

  • zuz
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Undergrad Did James Webb cast serious doubt on the Big Bang?

  • DavidCummings
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Undergrad Dark energy and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect?

  • Suekdccia
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Stargazing What is the maximum distance that parallax error can be used?

  • Dc2LightTech
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Graduate What is the origin of the Dipole Repeller and similar structures?

  • brianmck
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Graduate Planck evidence for a closed universe and a crisis for cosmology 2019

  • Username34
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High School Can We See This Massive Coronal Hole on the Sun?

  • DaveC426913
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High School "If a black hole has more mass then the event horizon shrinks" ???

  • martix
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Undergrad Avoiding structure collapse due to dark energy?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad What is “absolute circular polarization fraction” for a pulsar?

  • ZX.Liang
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High School How Does a Massive Planet's Orbit Around the Sun Appear?

  • pruthvi
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High School Why Is Universal Attraction Used If Galaxies Accelerate Apart?

  • Zerger
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