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Undergrad Convert to "Of Date" Apparent coordinates from "J2000" coordinates

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Undergrad What is the similarity between the spectra of white dwarfs and the sun?

  • MMS
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Graduate Astronomical Implications of Quantum Entanglement?

  • secur
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High School Day-related calculations for BC dates

  • James Bejon
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Undergrad VR/AR big bang model (Virtual Reality Simulation)

  • Toxis
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High School Gas Giants & Stars: Do They Have a Solid Part?

  • Allen_Wolf
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High School What Are the Latest Insights on CMB Anomalies from Ali Frolop and Douglas Scott?

  • Garth
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Undergrad Does the Sun's Movement Create a Solar System Vortex Motion?

  • Shazamuel89
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High School Why does light not have infinite mass?

  • Allen_Wolf
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Graduate What distance is used in Hubble's Law.

  • Javier Chornet
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High School Tidally Locked Planets: How Close to the Star?

  • AstroCody
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High School What Is the Lifespan of a Neutron Star?

  • dendros
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Undergrad Dark Era of the Universe: Is it Really Dark?

  • jordankonisky
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Undergrad Does the Universe's Expansion lead to Critical Mass < 1?

  • HappyMonster3000
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Undergrad What's Next for Astrogeology and Planetary Sciences?

  • pioneerboy
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High School What Are Common Misunderstandings About the Big Bang Theory?

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad Universe from Nothing: Cosmological Theory Explained

  • Narasoma
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Stargazing Amateurs Discover Asteroid Impacting Jupiter

  • russ_watters
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Undergrad Could "dark matter" be regions where Lambda is lower?

  • Gerinski
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High School How Much Do Astronauts Age at Light Speed on a 50-Light-Year Journey?

  • Alltimegreat1
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High School Why Does Free Space Permittivity Have Its Specific Value?

  • Shubham135
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High School Is the Earth the centre of the universe?

  • Stuart21
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Graduate Do Large Galaxies Exist Without Central Supermassive Black Holes?

  • secur
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High School What would be the minimum size for a galaxy to have a disk form?

  • Adraasa Kynuei
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Undergrad What happens to light when it reaches the edge of the universe?

  • fbsthreads
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High School Planet/Dwarf Planet Classification - Regarding Rogue Bodies

  • Madi Araly
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Undergrad Can Dark Matter just be vacuum fluctuations?

  • bbbl67
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Undergrad Thought experiment: Communication beyond the particle horizon

  • Lanniakea
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Undergrad Calculated solar irradiation not matching up with measured

  • KarenRei
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High School Final Temperature of the Universe: Effects of Dark Energy and Spatial Curvature

  • wolram
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High School Could redshift be caused by time speeding up?

  • paulharter
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High School Is Space Infinite? Examining the Big Bang Theory and the Curvature of Spacetime

  • arupel
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Undergrad "Dark energy" may be nothing more than baseline curvature

  • marcus
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High School How Did the God Particle Explode to Create Our Universe?

  • Docscientist
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Undergrad Hypersphere mock-ups for educational purposes

  • Spourk
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High School Discover the Phenomenon of One New Star Every Hour: Science Daily"

  • wolram
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High School Why is the CMB relatively uniform?

  • hewiiitt-
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High School How was the KSN 2011d Supernova Detected?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Lift-off of ExoMars mission to find life on Red Planet

  • arist
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Undergrad CMB Radiation Q: Can It Be Detected from 42 Million Light Years?

  • gluon
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Stargazing Diameter of Charles Messier's Telescope

  • AstroCody
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Undergrad Are almost all stars in the night sky brighter than the Sun?

  • wolf1728
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High School Effect of Density and Geometry on Gravity and Luminosity

  • townfool
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High School How come black holes have a mass?

  • Dhaga
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High School Why isn't water on the ISS dangerous?

  • Zarhult
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Undergrad Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Dark Matter Detection Experiment Results?

  • secur
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Undergrad Does The LCDM Model need reworking?

  • Berenices
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Undergrad Direction of stars' orbits around galactic center

  • Alltimegreat1
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High School Why Does LIGO Only Detect the Famous 'Chirp' Pulse from Black Hole Mergers?

  • houlahound
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Undergrad Binary system of a neutron star with a black hole

  • Stella.Physics
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Graduate Solar drive / neutron atmosphere

  • synch
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Graduate What is the solution to the black hole information paradox?

  • wolram
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Ceres' bright spots seen in striking new detail

  • PF_SpaceNews
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High School Challenge to humanity to see beyond and further than the CMS

  • Elbert Anstein
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High School Pulsars and Neutron Stars debunked?

  • Elbert Anstein
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Undergrad Asymmetric Tensor: Definition & Examples

  • izzi wekwek
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High School How does the cosmic background radiation help us measure expansion in cosmology?

  • thetexan
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High School Gravity at the Core of the Sun: How Strong is it?

  • Kingpin1880
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Undergrad How to Convert Plummer Distribution of Stars Parameters into Standard Units?

  • jimbo007
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Undergrad Could Planets Have Dual Cores Similar to Cell Structures?

  • STC4476
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Stargazing How to measure a magnifying glass (I want to build a telescope)

  • Avijit Palit
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High School How is the characteristic age of pulsars typically calculated?

  • rnielsen25
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High School Is the Expansion Rate Truly Accelerating?

  • thetexan
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Undergrad Dark energy and the gravitational constant

  • windy miller
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Undergrad Detecting organic compounds in interstellar dust

  • Prez Cannady
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High School Orbit Likelihood: The Odds of Objects Falling into Stable Orbits Explained

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad Monopole Creation and Higgs Field

  • expos4ever
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Stargazing Calculating a Telescope's Limiting Magnitude

  • Ishtar_UK
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High School Why not the sun revolves around the Earth?

  • hackhard
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Undergrad Can Energy Naturally Convert to Matter in the Universe?

  • momo666
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Stargazing Setting up first telescope - need advice

  • Brek
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High School How Will Scott Kelly's Space Radiation Exposure Affect His Health?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School How Was the Binary Black Hole Collision Predicted?

  • gianeshwar
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High School How far outward can we rule out intelligent life?

  • Alltimegreat1
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Stargazing Receding Galaxies and the Range of Gravity

  • MCoulson
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High School Understanding the Flat Geometry and Curvature of the Universe

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad Is the following a smaller version of dark energy?

  • Mike Templeton
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High School Are Lunar Phases Affected by Earth's Orbit and Rotation?

  • Zarhult
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Undergrad How to calculate kinematic distances in the Milky Way

  • Ben231111
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Undergrad How to determine an asteroid survey efficiency?

  • pioneerboy
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High School Black Holes and Degenerate Pressure

  • lavinia
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Undergrad Current views on what happens at largest and smallest scales

  • Tanelorn
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High School Trying to understand the Andromeda-Milky Way collision

  • Alltimegreat1
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High School If the Earth stopped spinning? (orbiting the Sun)

  • avito009
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High School Does a Star's Fuel Running Out Lead to a Black Hole or Stellar Plasma?

  • Arceus74
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High School What do you see at the edge of the universe?

  • thetexan
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High School Can a black hole reach equilibrium between accretion and Hawking radiation?

  • wolram
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Graduate Can We Create a Magnetic Field on Mars through Moon Formation?

  • tanzanos
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Undergrad Rotation curve of galaxy Keplerian method

  • Shailesh Pincha
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Undergrad Extinct Curium 247 Found in Meteors

  • snorkack
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High School Hubble breaks the distance record with a redshift of 11.1

  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad Deriving the second Friedman equation from the first.

  • thebiggerbang
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Undergrad Early Earth: A Rapid Spin Through History

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Plausibility of high density rocky planets

  • SammiEmN
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Graduate How Do Black Holes Affect Time and the Fate of the Universe?

  • Sei
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High School Will super symmetry become part of cosmology

  • wolram
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Graduate Degeneracy pressure and stellar collapse

  • backward
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Graduate Is Detecting Distant Asteroids/NEOs from the ISS Possible?

  • ErdosFan
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High School Intergalactic Stars: Are There Single Stars Between Galaxies?

  • thetexan
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