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Graduate A. Pacholczyk: Radio Astrophysics (need a favor)

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Graduate Amount of dark Energy at different times

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Graduate Number density: Initial fluctuation strength and more....

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Graduate Regarding the relationship of mass, velocity, and time

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Graduate Hubble Law and expanding universe

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Graduate Is T Pyxis a Real Threat to Earth?

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Graduate White Holes: Real or Hypothesis?

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Graduate Galactic density in the low-mid distances from core

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Graduate Are Electrons Really Indistinguishable in the One Electron Universe?

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Graduate Black Holes, Light & Photons: Mass & Speed

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Graduate Will VY Canis Majoris be the next massive star to go supernova?

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Astrophotography with New Sensor - Improved Alignment & Stabilization

  • Andy Resnick
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Undergrad Acceleration and Dark Energy Clarification

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Graduate CMB Depth: 115000 LY & Its Impact on Analysis

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High School How many stars we can see from Earth?

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Graduate Is disorder required to store information?

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Geminid Meteor Shower: Peak Rates Up to 120/hr Dec 13-14

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Graduate Question about Recombination Redshift values

  • Dr. Strange
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Graduate Why do Quantum Fluctuations need Inflation?

  • Dr. Strange
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Graduate Is WD 1445+017 b the remains of a star?

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Graduate Inflation and Curvature: Examining the Relationship Since the Big Bang

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Graduate How redshift/brightness lead to acceleration/deceleration?

  • astrobird
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Graduate Understanding Dark Energy and the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe

  • Daniel K
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Graduate Interesting article about dark matter

  • Tanelorn
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High School Is Voyager 40k years from a star?

  • Rob Haskell
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High School Could Solar Wind and CMEs be Causing Magnetic Storms on Comet Catalina?

  • discosucks
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Undergrad Theories about why the universe is expanding faster

  • electric jake
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Graduate Does Jupiter have precession of the equinoxes?

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Graduate How Do Binary Dwarf/Neutron Stars get so close?

  • AdamAutism1998
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Undergrad What Causes the Sun's Unusual Orbital Path in a Java Solar System Model?

  • whatisreality
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Graduate Possible LBV Detected in Mayall II Star Cluster

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High School Anyone see the brief flash in Orion last night?

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Graduate Dark Energy: What is the expected form of the equation?

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Graduate How is the first peak of the CMB calculated?

  • Dr. Strange
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Graduate What is the Role of Quantum Fluctuations in the Formation of Black Holes?

  • wolram
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Graduate Accounting for time passed in our observation of the universe

  • Rob Haskell
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Graduate Is it possible to shift between parallel universes?

  • Dom1
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Undergrad Delta-v to overcome atmospheric and gravity drag at 13km?

  • Treva31
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Graduate Higgs Boson Decays into Dark MAtter

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Graduate Antineutrinos Candidates for Dark Matter?

  • endoftimes
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Undergrad Sun Orbits Center of Mass w/ Jupiter & Earth: How To Calculate?

  • whatisreality
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Graduate Q: Deep Sky Stacker hints & tips

  • Andy Resnick
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Stargazing Compute In-Band Irradiance with an Infrared Telescope

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Undergrad Force required to "move" asteroid

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Undergrad Image Processing Software for Solar Astrophysics Research

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Graduate Question regarding What is the universe made of?

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School What is the Physical Meaning of Permittivity of Free Space?

  • gracy
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Undergrad Ball thrown from ISS to earth at right angle to it's path

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Undergrad Why they don't increase altitude of ISS to overcome drag

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Graduate Does Increasing Luminosity Affect the Percentage of Dark Matter in a Galaxy?

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Graduate Were the "Dark Ages" really dark?

  • Gerinski
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High School Why there are summer and winter seasons?

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Undergrad Abt seeing the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye in future

  • Algren
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Undergrad How Does Rosetta Maintain Orbit Around a Low-Gravity Comet?

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Undergrad There must be a center of the universe....?

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High School Transit of Venus: Venus Passes Directly Between Sun & Superior Planet

  • azizlwl
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Space Question -- If I kept going down past the solar system....

  • Alexis Deitz
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Online Sources for Kepler Exoplanet Data

  • DuckAmuck
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Graduate Question re equilibrium abundance of a protons and electrons

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Why is normal force in a satellite zero?

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Graduate Is it possible that "dark matter" is a side effect?

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Undergrad Two satellites A and B move around earth in a circular orbit

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Graduate Inflation, comoving Hubble radius and particle horizon

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Undergrad Will Radial Escape Velocity Launch a Satellite Into Orbit?

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Graduate Calculating Core Temperature of a Brown Dwarf

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High School So I want to bend space lots of times

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What can a newcomer to astronomy bring to the table?

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Graduate Black holes' existence from our point of view

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Gravitational effect of a black hole based on distance

  • Gerinski
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Graduate How (un)stable are the Lagrangian points 1, 2 and 3?

  • xpell
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High School Difference between Cosmology and Astronomy

  • Salman Ranjha
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Undergrad The Big Bang Theory a Fairy Tale? So says presidential candidate Ben Carson....

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Graduate If black holes never exceed a certain mass....

  • stooch
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Graduate Does All Energy Affect Spacetime Curvature?

  • TimeRip496
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Graduate Does time dilation occur between comoving galaxies?

  • eugene pletcher
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Undergrad Can a Lost Spaceship Navigate Back to Earth in the Milky Way?

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High School Retrograde Motion: What is it & How Does it Work?

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Graduate Is the Universe Expanding Faster Than the Speed of Light?

  • myric
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Undergrad Question about relative abundance of particles before annihilation

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate Why is there no DM halo around the solar system?

  • Buzz Bloom
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High School Will We Witness a Daytime Visible Supernova in the Near Future?

  • Sobi
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Graduate Describing elliptic orbit as a parametric function

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Graduate Can space itself act as an fuel?

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Full Moon Photography: Mastering Settings at 25%

  • Andy Resnick
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Undergrad How do black holes get so massive

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Graduate Some questions on the Cosmological Principle

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Graduate Can a galaxy at z=8.68 disprove the LCDM theory?

  • wolram
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Graduate An argument that massive particles don't redshift?

  • jcap
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Stargazing What Type of Telescope Should I Buy as a Beginner?

  • Ibn Sina
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Graduate Ancient Galaxies twice the size of the Milky Way

  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad Drake Equation: Explaining N Value

  • Andrew Jacobson
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High School What is Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

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Graduate Did Venus's Lack of Plate Tectonics Contribute to Losing Its Oceans?

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Graduate The Duration of the Big Bang: Exploding Myths and Misconceptions

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High School Newly Discovered Trans-Neptunian Dwarf Planet

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Graduate Does negative gravity play a role in the expansion of the universe?

  • michaeljmj
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Graduate Light beams, from the present to the time of the big bang

  • eugene pletcher
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Graduate Unexpected distant values of m/r in a finite universe

  • Jonathan Scott
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Stargazing Basics of Using a Telescope - Locating Stars (RA)

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Graduate Chem analysis to start at best site for low-gravity industry

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