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

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Undergrad Meteor impact and axial tilt, relation to climate

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High School Universe Expansion: Is Earth Spinning Away From Sun?

  • kenny1999
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High School Fermi Paradox: What are your opinions on the Fermi Paradox?

  • man like bush
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High School I've done it the wrong way roundn

  • sophiecentaur
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High School Voyager 1 - image of 'Pale Blue Dot'

  • Tebor
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High School How do physicist determine the energy of the universe?

  • houlahound
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High School Is Earth's Movement Away from the Sun Impacting Global Warming?

  • SkinniestGoblin
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Undergrad What does cosmological redshift do to light

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Graduate Do White Holes Violate 2nd Law of Thermodynamics?

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Undergrad CMB Education Tool - Adjust Contrasts & Visualize Effects

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High School Have we observed antimatter in the early universe?

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Undergrad How can the universe be infinitely big?

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High School Could dark energy just be caused by virtual particles

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Undergrad What Are the Proposed Alternatives to the Multiverse Theory?

  • windy miller
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Undergrad Calculating average density of the Universe

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Undergrad The observable Universe and its shape

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Graduate "Observation" of Black Hole Merger

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High School How important is gravitational red/blueshift for stars?

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Undergrad Factor of how much linear size scale has changed

  • bobo1455
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High School The Fate of Gaseous Planets: Can They Stay Stable Forever?

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Undergrad Is There a Preferred Axis in Cosmology and What Could Be Its Origin?

  • wolram
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Stargazing Facing difficulties with radio telescope measurements

  • Mange313
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High School What would happen if the Sun collided with a similar star?

  • GiantSheeps
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High School Is Dark Energy Really Driving the Expansion of the Universe?

  • Allen_Wolf
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High School Geometries of the Universe: What are the Most Accepted Models?

  • Allen_Wolf
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Undergrad Could pulsar timing arrays see primordial gravity waves?

  • windy miller
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Undergrad Deriving Equation of Motion for Quintessence Scalar Field?

  • HashKetchum
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Graduate Two Way Tidal Lock: Can Planets and Moons Sync?

  • vladpaln
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High School The way the moon 'behaves', coincidence or 'something more'?

  • victorhugo
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Stargazing Software to adjust exposure? webcam, astrophotography

  • kolleamm
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Graduate Gamma ray burst associated with LIGO GW event

  • Jonathan Scott
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Stargazing Double image in reflector telescope

  • kolleamm
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Graduate Tension between local and CMB measurements of Hubble constant

  • mitchell porter
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Graduate Explore Binary System Inspiral w/ 1.5 Solar Masses

  • wolram
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Undergrad How Can We Visualize One Dimensional Strings in Space Time?

  • fredreload
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Graduate In LIGO’s pulse, how much comes from BH merging/ inspiraling

  • MaxWallis
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High School North & South Star: Polaris & Sirius

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Undergrad Planet at barycenter of a binary system.

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Undergrad How would one know whether a star would be observable?

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High School How does dark matter affect planetary motion?

  • Zoey Brown
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Graduate Will a body ever escape in a 3 body problem?

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Undergrad Will a Slow Decrease in Dark Energy Density Alter the Fate of the Universe?

  • Ranku
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Undergrad Axis of Evil": Power Asymmetry in the Universe

  • windy miller
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High School What is causing the accelerated expansion of the universe?

  • Allen_Wolf
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High School How Small Was the Big Bang Singularity When It First Exploded?

  • dheeraj
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High School Does the Formation of Positive and Negative Mass Occur Throughout the Universe?

  • Allen_Wolf
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Undergrad Understanding dark energy problem

  • windy miller
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High School Why the Earth orbits around the Sun

  • kenny1999
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High School Lowest/Highest mass of a star, star system

  • Stephanus
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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter: Is it a Different Type of Gravity?

  • kcookson251
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Undergrad Why there are different size stars?

  • wondercosmos
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High School Questions about the lifespan of the Earth

  • kenny1999
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High School How to calculate the distance between a Star and Zenith

  • KaBash
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Graduate Black Hole Paper Outlining Process of Singularity Formation

  • ObjectivelyRational
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Graduate Are there widespread misconceptions about degeneracy pressure?

  • Ken G
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Graduate Can entropic force explain the cosmological constant value?

  • marcus
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High School What are the limitations of the heuristic picture of Hawking radiation?

  • Allen_Wolf
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High School Can Living in Space Lead to Immortality Through Technology?

  • Docscientist
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High School Does antimatter have positive or negative mass?

  • MikeL#
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High School Can Cosmic Strings Align Black Holes?

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Undergrad How Does Aerobraking Work for the ExoMars Orbiter?

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High School Can we see individual stars in the Andromeda Galaxy?

  • Stephanus
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High School How Does Stellar Parallax Measure Distance?

  • NatFex
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High School Is it possible for "nothing" to exist

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Undergrad Can a Torus be Gravitationally Bound?

  • Tom MS
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Undergrad Question about the cosmological constant

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Time Space Fabric: Malleability & Extension Explored

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Insights A Brief on the Expansion of the Universe - Comments

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High School Initial Impetus Needed for Curved SpaceTime?

  • abrogard
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Undergrad Gravitational Binding Energy of a Torus

  • Tom MS
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High School The Falcon Landing: How Did They Do It?

  • wolram
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High School Could Another Big Bang Happen in My Hand?

  • Kris Lemkens
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High School What Are the Implications of Space Being the Ideal Medium for Light?

  • alba
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Undergrad KELT-4Ab Orbital Characteristics

  • |Glitch|
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High School E=mc^2 & Universe Expansion - Answers Wanted!

  • Kris Lemkens
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Undergrad Virtual Particles: Inflation vs Present Universe

  • Ranku
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High School Entropy is greater in galaxies or pre atomic era

  • houlahound
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Graduate What percentage of the universe's mass is contributed by neutrinos?

  • Thomasmoscow
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Undergrad Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies

  • resurgance2001
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High School Could Supermassive Black Holes Be More Common Than We Thought?

  • houlahound
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High School Is Extra Terrestrial Life Possible in This Universe?

  • Stephanus
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High School Questions regarding pre Big Bang

  • momo666
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Graduate What's the truth behind CCC's concentric circles prediction for the CMB?

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Undergrad Is an Aragoscope Currently in Use?

  • kolleamm
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High School Binary/Ternary Systems: Could Stars Orbit a Non-Stellar Central Object?

  • Stephanus
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High School What can I expect to see with a 6inch mirror?

  • kolleamm
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High School Continuous or discrete acceleration?

  • JohnnyGui
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Stargazing Is a Telescope for Asteroids the Key to Discovering New Main Belt Objects?

  • pioneerboy
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Graduate Variance of mass inside a black hole

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High School Binary Stars Observable with Binoculars: Periodicity

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High School Can Space-Time Rip? What Causes Tears & Healing?

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High School Can Light Ever Stand Still in the Universe?

  • wolram
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Graduate Are we now alone in the Universe?

  • Ronie Bayron
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High School Big Bang versus eternal universe models

  • Grandpa Dave
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Graduate Instability of Cosmology with Quantum Corrections

  • David Miller
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Graduate Where to find galaxy mass function observational data?

  • shadishacker
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High School Is There a Global Database for Public Domain Scientific Knowledge?

  • shaun curley
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Stargazing Comets 252P/LINEAR and P/2016 BA14

  • Astronuc
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Insights How Representative is the Night Sky? - Comments

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