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High School How Far Back Can We See with Better Optics?

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Undergrad Directed panspermia mission to Mercury

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad Inconsistencies re Astronomical constants

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Earth rotation different in hemisphere

  • vishnu kumar
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Graduate Having Trouble Plotting the Cosmic Shear Power Spectrum Kernel?

  • sunrah
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Undergrad Dark Matter Halo & Newton's Shell Theorem

  • greswd
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High School Can an object have too little mass to have a stable orbit?

  • josh0196
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Graduate What are the implications for dark matter searches and supersymmetry?

  • kodama
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High School Gravitational Radiation: Effects on Objects & Black Holes

  • wolram
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Graduate Was there more galaxy clustering in early Universe?

  • SteveDC
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Graduate Could gamma rays imply GW sources not black holes?

  • Jonathan Scott
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Graduate Is this possible "giant planet' a hot topic in astronomy?

  • alw34
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Undergrad Artificial Intelligence and astrophysics

  • carllacan
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Graduate Interferometry of distant sources

  • naima
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Undergrad Question about Orbits of Moon/Earth around Sun

  • Zarhult
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Undergrad Acceleration in an Elliptical Orbit

  • Geoff Pollock
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Graduate Is the Expansion of Space/Time a Result of Object Motion or Framework Growth?

  • thetexan
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Undergrad Kepler's third law for elliptical orbits

  • DanHelzer
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Undergrad Increase in Radius when a Star becomes a Red Giant

  • Madi Araly
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Graduate How Does Geometry Influence Our Understanding of the Universe?

  • Mordred
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Graduate Does Dark Matter Contribute to the Mass, Charge, and Spin of Black Holes?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Conundrum of Solving True Anomaly in Binary Orbits: A Scientist's Dilemma

  • Rod_123
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Graduate How Does Dark Energy Influence the Expansion of Our Universe?

  • FredrikJ
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Graduate Do Magnetic Fields Affect Photons in Binary Pulsars?

  • Ben123
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Graduate Integrating equations of motion with Earth perturbations

  • morinmau
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Graduate Multiverse theory and Dark Matter

  • billyp245
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Graduate How is the redshift of gravitational wave events measured?

  • Jorrie
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Graduate How Did Earth's Rotation Change After the Moon's Formation?

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School What Is Our Current Understanding of the Fabric of Space?

  • icantevenn
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Graduate Gravitational waves, distance and space-time

  • tim9000
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Graduate Is SUSY the next big step in cosmology

  • wolram
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Undergrad What causes orbits to change over time?

  • Algren
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Graduate What happens to energy of the stars?

  • Whitefire
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Graduate What is a finite and bounded universe and how do scientists envision it?

  • Alltimegreat1
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Graduate Understanding the (restricted) three body problem

  • throneoo
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Stargazing Stellar abberation (water in telescope)

  • Buckethead
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Why does the moon appear full near the sun in photos?

  • Jessica Ann Yost
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Graduate EM length of gravitational waves

  • pioneerboy
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High School LIGO discovery on gravitational waves.

  • Saanchi
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Graduate Gravitational waves, compensate for the Earth's movement

  • MartinMb
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Graduate Are there a regions of space with no gravity?

  • thefredman
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Undergrad Does age of Universe reveal its size?

  • Pjpic
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Graduate Is Numerology the Key to Understanding the Universe?

  • IsaacM
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Undergrad What If I Were Able to Remove All Matter From the Universe?

  • Strong Eagle
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Undergrad Are researchers really this interested in 'Planet 9'

  • alw34
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Graduate Difference between spacetime and the gravitational field?

  • R. E. Nettleton
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Undergrad First manned mission to another planet

  • Alltimegreat1
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High School Was a New Supernova Discovered in the Galaxy Centaurus A?

  • davenn
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Graduate Computing 'Sound' Frequency of a Planet: Possible Methods?

  • Nineways
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Graduate Can a black hole shrink another black hole's event horizon?

  • Algren
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Undergrad Gravitational waves due to Big Bang?

  • smims
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Graduate F(R) gravity and the Hubble parameter

  • shadishacker
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Graduate Expansion of the universe, acceleration limit

  • tim9000
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Graduate Question about cause of gravitational waves

  • TheMohawkNinja
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Graduate The mechanics of gamma ray bursts

  • Abdul.119
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Graduate Question on gravitational waves and redshift in BH coalesce

  • Javier Zapater
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Graduate Question: Accelerating Universe = Net Positive Energy?

  • HappyMonster3000
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Graduate Perception of time, gravitational waves.

  • Densedog
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Graduate When is the peak energy of gravitational radiation

  • wolram
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Graduate Accurate Measurement of Cosmological Constant Value

  • Einstein's Cat
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Graduate What happens to the wave impedance of free space at ω=0?

  • Shinji83
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Graduate Can LIGO Data Replicate the Famous Michealson & Morley Experiment?

  • fizzy
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Graduate What Does the Gravitational Wave Signal GW150914 Sound Like?

  • snorkack
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Undergrad How diverse would a subterranean ocean be?

  • newjerseyrunner
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Graduate Clearing up my Cosmological Confusion - what is expanding?

  • rede96
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Insights LightCone7 Tutorial Part III - How Things are Computed - Comments

  • Jorrie
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Graduate Rumors of 3rd LIGO Event: New Scientific Article Sheds Light

  • phyzguy
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Graduate The big bang was a fluctuation of what?

  • w0_0dy
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High School Stars we see are actually their past?

  • Esas Shakeel
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Graduate Did an explosion of a Black Hole make the Big Bang

  • Gjmdp
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Graduate What are the properties of de Sitter space?

  • momo666
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Graduate Question on the new gravity wave discovery

  • thetexan
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Graduate Nobel prize for Brown and Batygin?

  • pioneerboy
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Graduate Dark Energy Constant: Is It Constant or Increasing?

  • Einstein's Cat
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Graduate Is this the source of our galaxy's proper motion

  • wolram
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Stargazing Brightness of objects through a telescope

  • NihalRi
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Graduate How are dark energy and matter quantified?

  • gnnmartin
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Graduate Why do pulsars emit radiation from both poles?

  • rnielsen25
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Graduate Why Does the ELP2000-82b Lunar Theory Differ from Jean Meeus' Adjustments?

  • cptolemy
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Graduate Is Planetary Contamination Prevention Enough for Space Colonization?

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad Getting a feel for how much the Universe expands

  • wolram
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Undergrad How are mathematical concepts translated into illustrations

  • Alice 123
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Graduate What is the trace of a second rank covariant tensor?

  • dwellexity
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Graduate Could Dark Energy Be Caused by Imaginary Mass Traveling Faster Than Light?

  • tmv3v
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Undergrad Has time always ticked the same?

  • dodo
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Undergrad How would Earth be affected by an additional smaller moon?

  • Kid Ljungblom
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Graduate Is the LCDM Model Challenged by Evidence of Running Cosmic Vacuum?

  • wolram
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What's going on in this snapshot from the ISS?

  • Zarhult
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Undergrad Galactic Orbit Variations: Impact on Night Sky View

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad What other explanations have physicists proposed for the birth of our universe?

  • at94official
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Undergrad What is dark matter/dark energy? Are there differences?

  • Malkin6701
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What's going on with the jets from SS433?

  • Bernie G
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Undergrad Could Planets Exist in Intergalactic Space?

  • Alltimegreat1
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Undergrad Observational evidence for universal expansion beyond redshift

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate How Are Mean Orbital Elements Calculated?

  • cptolemy
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Graduate Understanding The Meaning and Use of Phase Space

  • farowitz
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Graduate Is Time Reversal Possible? New Research Challenges Long-Held Assumptions

  • wolram
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Graduate Proper distance for co-moving bodies

  • TheCanadian
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Graduate What are the basic mechanics of pulsar IGR J1104-6103?

  • Bernie G
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Graduate Expansion of the universe and quantum perturbations

  • tim9000
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