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High School Will the Universe Eventually Go Dark?

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Undergrad Closure Phase - Interferometry - Recurrence Relation

  • LmdL
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High School Question about the nature of Gravitation

  • Swapnil Das
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High School Mass in Space: Questions & Answers

  • ponyboy3399
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Undergrad What is the History of Dark Matter?

  • wolram
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Graduate Climate change and changes in astronomical viewing conditions....

  • pioneerboy
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High School Why is the redshift not the result of something else

  • qpwimblik
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High School CCD: How It Works & Intuitive Explanation

  • 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: See it Now for 3-4 Days - 13 Apr 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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Kid Didn't Discover Lost Mayan City via Astronomy After All

  • 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 Discovery of how to measure wavelength absorption lines

  • 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 Gravitational Collapse: Internal Energy & Potential Energy

  • 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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Undergrad Evidence to support the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis?

  • Hunter1234
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Undergrad Understanding Wiki's Milky Way Galaxy rotation chart

  • hendoS
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Undergrad Hawking radiation and energy-negative energy pair production

  • Rocha
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Undergrad What differentiates inflationary models from each other?

  • windy miller
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High School Is expansion caused by unknown tension in space/time?

  • thetexan
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Undergrad Comparing Earth's diameter with Moon's diameter

  • prashant singh
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Graduate Uncovering the Mysteries of Dark Matter's Energy Content

  • DLSieving
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Undergrad Star Radius & Mass from Spectral Class, B-V, Luminosity

  • gunhed508
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Undergrad Calculation of mean energy value of photons in recombination

  • eliot13
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Undergrad Exponential expansion of inflation

  • Ranku
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Undergrad How can I calculate red shift for intragalactic bodies

  • Frank Einstein
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High School How Can I Improve Pointing and Eyepiece Quality on My Dobsonian Telescope?

  • sophiecentaur
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High School How much of the visible universe have we explored?

  • iDimension
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Undergrad Is the influence of dark matter symmetric?

  • nortonian
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Graduate April 23rd Magnetosphere Anomaly

  • IbogaMoon
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High School Is the Big Bang a Result of a Spontaneous Singularity?

  • thetexan
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Graduate Mars as Second Earth: Slowing Down Its Orbit

  • tobyr65
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Undergrad Flat vs Open Universe: CMBR & Type Ia Supernovae

  • Willfrid Somogyi
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Undergrad Could "reverse entropy stars" exist in our universe?

  • Seanra
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Undergrad How Do We Measure the First Second of the Universe?

  • SiliconGene
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Undergrad Does Space Compressibility Affect the Big Bang?

  • Puma
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High School What is the source of the mysterious red rectangle in space?

  • Dotini
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