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Undergrad Does the mass of subatomic particles differ on different planets?

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Undergrad The Mystery of Elements in the Sun's Primordial Dust Cloud

  • anorlunda
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Graduate Ending point for initial condition theories

  • michaeljmj
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Graduate How to Transform Angular Velocity Vector of a Satellite from ECI to LVLH System?

  • johnsnow
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Graduate Schwarzschild radius calculation

  • verschrankung
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Graduate The Mystery of Space-Time Slow Zones

  • graemecr
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Undergrad Ability to measure distances with parallax versus size

  • Yosty22
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Graduate Gamma rays unlikely to originate from Dark Matter

  • wolram
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Graduate Einstein-Rosen Bridge: Black & White Hole?

  • Francesco_C
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High School What color is the sky from space for an astronaut?

  • Shivansh Mathur
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Graduate Understanding Virialized Dark Matter Halos in Galaxy Formation

  • shadishacker
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Graduate Does this neutron star have an accretion disk?

  • Bernie G
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Graduate Clarification about Earth's Precession

  • bznm
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Graduate Wormhole Metric: Solving Difficult Differential Equations

  • Francesco_C
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Graduate What was the role of Hawking Radiation in the early universe?

  • big_bounce
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Graduate Is Dark Energy Really Necessary for Explaining Cosmic Expansion?

  • Bruce Wilson
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Insights Knut Lundmark and the Prehistory of Dark Matter - Comments

  • Orodruin
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Graduate Can I Build My Own Deep Space Antenna Network for Receiving Planetary Probes?

  • king yasin ally
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Graduate LaGrangian Points, L1,L2, L3 and L4

  • Philosophaie
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Undergrad Range of Earth's year within habitable zone?

  • Lapsangtea
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Insights LightCone7Combo Tutorial Part II - Charts - Comments

  • Jorrie
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Graduate Brown dwarfs and close binary systems

  • magic9mushroo
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Graduate Expanding space or contracting matter?

  • sami_m
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Undergrad How often do satellites pass the moon?

  • Mr. Fizzix
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Graduate How does the event horizon of a black hole form during the collapse of a star?

  • anorlunda
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Graduate How Does Turbulence Restore the Poloidal Magnetic Field in Solar Reversals?

  • astrolollo
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Undergrad Center of Mass of separating Orbiting Mass

  • LydiaJ
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Graduate Is the Sun Positively Charged?

  • Plok
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Undergrad How to calculate light intensity?

  • R Sarwar
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Undergrad Another newbie question: paradox: size vs. age

  • scopehead
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High School Orbits in Universe: Milky Way, Sun, Moon & More

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad How does the expansion of the universe work?

  • EdColider
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Graduate Gaussian vs. non-Gaussian fluctuations

  • Einj
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Graduate CMBR, Dark Matter: Unraveling What it Means

  • alw34
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Graduate What are Black Hole Singularities: Physical or Mathematical?

  • wolram
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Graduate Oribit integrator for a logarithmic potential

  • Serna
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High School Can You Help Discover New Planets with Kepler Data on Planet Hunters?

  • AngularMomentum
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Graduate Comments - Inflationary Misconceptions and the Basics of Cosmological Horizons

  • bapowell
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Graduate Are black holes more redshifted than the CMB?

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Could 0.9c neutron star jets originate from the core?

  • Bernie G
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High School "Gravitational Compression in Neutron Stars"

  • billj
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Graduate Is space an entity, a relationship or a concetual framework?

  • AndyFin
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High School What Is the Evidence for Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

  • wolram
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Graduate Does the event horizon change as large objects approach it?

  • newjerseyrunner
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Graduate Does this dynamic model complement the Balloon Analogy?

  • alw34
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High School How Do Orbits Work?

  • Fez98
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High School Zig Zag Star Movement in Singapore 2011

  • Faisal Shaukat
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Graduate What constitutes negative and positive energy

  • DiracPool
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Undergrad Aerostat on Venus vs Surface Colony on Mars

  • Algren
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Graduate Stellar-mass black hole formation sequence

  • sevenperforce
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Graduate X-ray bursts might not happen for larger neutron stars?

  • Jonathan Scott
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Graduate Astronomical source extraction in non uniform background

  • sonutabitha
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Undergrad Question Concerning the Rate of Expansion

  • quantumphysics11
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Undergrad Has Gravitational radiation been found

  • wolram
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Graduate How massive of an object would be be required....

  • DET
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Graduate A possible super-Earth or Brown Dwarf in our Solar System

  • |Glitch|
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Graduate Could Planet 9 have caused the gap between the heliopause and the Oort cloud?

  • Blayde Keel
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Undergrad Space Travel Physics: Realistic 2D Simulation

  • Noah J
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Graduate The probable trajectory of the ninth planet in night sky?

  • sami_m
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Undergrad Travelling at the speed of light

  • Brunolem33
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Graduate Dark Energy in Relation to Spacetime

  • physicsquestion11
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Graduate Did Black Holes appear in the first billion years?

  • wolram
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Graduate Space-Time Distortion and Warp-Drive

  • srs101
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Graduate How Does Normalization in LightCone7zeit Enhance Cosmological Graph Comparisons?

  • Jorrie
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Insights LightCone7Combo Tutorial Part I - Comments

  • Jorrie
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Graduate Supermassive black hole evolution

  • Chronos
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Undergrad Calculating Relative Brightness of Type Ia Supernovae

  • shadishacker
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Graduate What is the cause of variations in lunar eccentricity?

  • fizzy
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Graduate Time evolution of density profile

  • throneoo
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Undergrad Two stars with the same mass equals the same luminosity?

  • JoAstro
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Graduate Has information been lost to a black hole?

  • rjbeery
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Graduate Speed of light from BB to present day

  • Tanelorn
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Graduate Loss of stellar information in a black hole

  • airydisc2004
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Graduate Speed of light/electromagnetic waves is constant?

  • Yash1993
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Graduate Naive Question about Dark Matter

  • meBigGuy
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Graduate Possible Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy

  • |Glitch|
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Graduate Sigma_8 and n_s Cosmological Parameters

  • SteveDC
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Graduate Understanding the phase-space representation of Ensembles

  • Harry Mason
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Undergrad What Are the Unique Properties of a Black Dwarf?

  • dendros
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Insights Can We Tell Whether the Universe Is Rotating? - Comments

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High School Can you tell the Physical Properties of a Messier Object?

  • Atominate
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Graduate Question regarding Friedmann equation

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate The Simpson-Hawking Donut Universe

  • klotza
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High School Can a Black hole also be a wormhole?

  • Sangam Swadik
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High School Can Cosmology Be Experimentally Verified?

  • wolram
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Graduate Black hole singularty definable In 3D space?

  • nospoon2016
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Undergrad Venus' Synodic Year: Why Does It Take Longer Than Earth's?

  • sivaswetha
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Graduate Is There Evidence for Redshift Drift in High-z Galaxies?

  • ConformalGrpOp
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Undergrad Expanding Universe: Big Bang & Beyond

  • apurvmj
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Undergrad How fast was the expansion during the big bang?

  • Javaxcore
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Stargazing How to calculate the amount of light a telescope collects?

  • JoAstro
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Graduate Best Place to View Stars: North Pole

  • Brian T
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Graduate Loop quantum cosmology vs string cosmology

  • kodama
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Graduate Questions about the topology of the universe

  • dougy
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Graduate How long would it take two planets to collide?

  • rohanlol7
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Graduate Could the Universe's Expansion Form a 'Clock' in a Hot Big Bang Scenario?

  • _PJ_
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Graduate How exactly is information for CO transitions found?

  • TheCanadian
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Undergrad Expanding universe and age of light

  • deuspisi
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Undergrad Calculating Galaxy Distance for Light Speed using Hubble's Law

  • Einstein's Cat
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Graduate Can the Universe Transition from Finite to Infinite?

  • Helios
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