Join in expert discussion on the topics of Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. This may include discussion on celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. Mainstream science only.
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High School Equatorial platform: any experiences?
- sophiecentaur
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High School Dipole pattern for Fine Structure Constant?
- mikenw
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High School Does the moon rotate on its axis?
- lw1990
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High School Are the axes of celestial objects parallel in a galaxy?
- lw1990
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High School Are Larger Black Holes Less Dense Than Smaller Ones?
- Will Langas
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Graduate Life forms that live in decreasing entropy phase of universe
- Ito
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High School Does Kurzgesagt correctly explain galaxy group formation?
- PrincePhoenix
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Undergrad How does the solar wind affect Earth's atmosphere?
- PaperAirplane
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Undergrad Does tidal power generation slowly degrade the moon's orbit?
- Simoyd
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Undergrad Why are physicists who discovered gravity phenomena the most famous?
- ricky33
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Stargazing What is the difference between a type IIP and type IIL supernova?
- davenn
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Undergrad GW150914 and GW150914-GBM revisited
- Chronos
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High School Can a deterministic universe contain a being that predicts its own future?
- raphalbatros
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Graduate What is the significance of peculiar motion in galactic rotation data analysis?
- Bill McKeeman
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Stargazing A new and improved Eta Carina image
- davenn
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High School Expansion of space and momentums of galaxies
- Buckethead
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Undergrad Is tangential velocity in elliptical orbits stable?
- Andreas C
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Graduate Having Trouble with ISIS Image Subtraction Method?
- beavez
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High School Walking on a sheet of grippy fabric in space.
- qpwimblik
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Graduate Theories and questions on the expansion of the universe
- Enquerencia
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Undergrad Vacuum energy density after inflation
- windy miller
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Undergrad Boltzmann brain paradox in an eternally expanding universe
- windy miller
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High School Will the Universe Eventually Go Dark?
- thetexan
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Undergrad Closure Phase - Interferometry - Recurrence Relation
- LmdL
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High School Does gravitation obey wave-particle duality?
- Swapnil Das
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High School Why does mass affect acceleration in weightless space?
- ponyboy3399
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Undergrad What is the History of Dark Matter?
- wolram
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Graduate Climate change impacts on future observatory site suitability
- pioneerboy
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High School Why is the redshift not the result of something else
- qpwimblik
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High School How charge-coupled devices accumulate and shift electrons in pixels
- Clever Penguin
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High School Chemical composition of relativistic neutron star jets?
- Bernie G
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Graduate Mass/Energy of Relativistic Jets?
- EskWIRED
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Graduate How Much Mass Is Ejected in Polar Jets?
- patellar-myotatic
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Undergrad Is Information Conserved in the Universe?
- windy miller
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High School Detecting Unusual Stellar Shapes: Looking for Perturbed Planets
- wolram
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Stargazing New Large Sunspot coming into view
- davenn
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Undergrad Aurora on Uranus? Why Are They In Large Dots?
- thebosonbreaker
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Undergrad Is Probability Meaningless in an Infinite Universe?
- windy miller
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Graduate Is Solar Wind Formed by Planetary Resonance and Solar Cycles?
- Buren
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Undergrad See How Andromeda Would Look if It Were Brighter
- George K
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High School Shouldn't dwarf planets be a subset of planets?
- Jupiter60
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High School Super-luminous Sphere Fading: Will Smaller or Larger Spheres Fade Away First?
- Einstein's Cat
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Undergrad Physics in a universe with instant communication
- EnumaElish
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High School Why are we still limited in our Moon exploration ambitions?
- Jeronimus
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High School Why does the moon appear to rock back and forth in the sky?
- thetexan
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Undergrad Position and Velocity in Heliocentric Ecliptic Coordinates
- Jenab2
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Undergrad Expansion of the universe, a poor choice of words?
- windy miller
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Graduate Two Black Holes' collision thought experiment
- George K
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Undergrad Understanding Etherington's reciprocity theorem
- voila
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High School Are galaxies part of constellations?
- wutronic
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Undergrad Mathematical Proof of Kepler's First Law of Orbits
- Memocyl
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High School Does Time Reverse Inside a Black Hole's Event Horizon?
- praveena
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Undergrad How Does Dark Matter Density Affect Galactic Rotation?
- cwdesign
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Graduate Viewpoint: Black Holes Produce Complexity Fastest
- QuantumQuest
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Undergrad How to calculate day length of a tidelocked double planet?
- AotrsCommander
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Undergrad Horizon Riddle (Infinite Horizon Problem)
- Whitehole
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High School Why doesn't the Moon get pulled into the Earth?
- cjp613
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High School How Much Should You Spend on a Moon Filter?
- sophiecentaur
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Undergrad Pluto's interaction with solar wind
- Ava_Seven
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Graduate The Big Rip - new evidence for it?
- Shlibby
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High School At what point would we stop seeing a star?
- thetexan
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Stargazing Large sunspot visible for 3-4 days in mid-April 2016
- davenn
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Graduate Will this setup work for backyard photometry?
- mishima
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Undergrad The universe doesn't have volume from outside?
- Tap Banister
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Undergrad New light shed on birth of the universe
- wolram
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Debunked: 15-year-old's Mayan city discovery via star maps
- jedishrfu
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Undergrad How Will Nano Spacecraft Reach Alpha Centauri?
- Nick Martin
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Undergrad Space Debris: Questions from a Newbie
- Daulet
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Undergrad Does positive curvature disprove eternal inflation?
- windy miller
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Undergrad Who first measured wavelength of absorption lines in stellar spectra?
- Ava_Seven
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Graduate How do we say that the universe we live is 3 dimensional?
- Altamash
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High School How to apply Einstein's STOR to expansion
- thetexan
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Undergrad How Small Can a Mass Be Squeezed?
- thetexan
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Undergrad Size of Universe: Exploring 13.7bn Years of Space
- Pete72
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High School What are the name and function of this apparatus
- Nicolas92i
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High School What do you call rocks that don't orbit the sun?
- LydiaJ
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Graduate Is there proof that black holes really exist?
- edguy99
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Stargazing Did You Catch These Amazing Stargazing Moments This Weekend?
- Andy Resnick
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Graduate Rotational universe without dark energy and dark matter?
- petergreen
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High School Is the Universe a Type of Fluid?
- Madefornomad
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High School What are the biggest misconceptions about black holes?
- 43zombiegit
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High School "Without Earth's atmosphere, cosmic rays would be lethal"
- bluemoonKY
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High School Calculating Orbital Velocity in 2D
- Torstein Bjelland
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High School Kepler Telescope Running in Safe Mode
- 1oldman2
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High School Expanding from and eventually to a singularity?
- Bran
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Undergrad Gravity assist and increasing orbital energy
- Physgeek64
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High School Did Stars Precede Life in the Universe?
- Hunter1234
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High School Does internal energy increase during gravitational collapse?
- mystreet123
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Undergrad Plotting number of halos per logarithmic bin
- allazar
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Undergrad Could it be so easy? (Why is space three-dimensional?)
- fresh_42
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High School Potential Organism Sustaining Planets
- akeleti8
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High School Hubble equation function of time
- Einstein's Cat
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Undergrad Where Can I Compare Star Spectra?
- Frank Einstein
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Undergrad Spacetime expansion and conservation of energy
- EasterEggs123
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Undergrad Experiment to Determine if Spacetime is Granular
- wolram
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High School How to contain an atmosphere in space?
- Frost Dragon
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High School Does a magnetic field accompany Jupiter's Great Red Spot?
- ZX.Liang
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Undergrad Inflation assumes ##\ddot{a}<0## after inflation?
- davidbenari
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Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is a Simulation
- Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Spatial homogeneity and the functional form of two-point functions
- Frank Castle
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