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Undergrad Does the mass of subatomic particles differ on different planets?
- ayush solanki
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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
- Multiple_Authors
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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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