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High School Astrophysicists and their use of physics in their studies?

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Graduate How can radiation from the Big Bang come from all directions?

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Stargazing Which telescope is best for amateur stargazing?

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High School The Mysterious Movement of the Moon: What Does It Mean for Our Weight?

  • mikebpr
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Undergrad Homemade Cosmic Microwave Background detector

  • PedroLencastre
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Graduate What Is the Rh = ct Cosmology?

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High School Why Doesn't Earth's Rotation Affect Flight Times?

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Graduate Universe has to have finite size - doesn't it?

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Graduate Magnetic field in early universe

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Help finding some info about the movement of the observable universe

  • Harley Cabral
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Graduate Is There Evidence for a Cyclic Universe?

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Undergrad Milky Way stole its farthest star cluster from another galaxy

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High School Weight of Objects in Space: Explained in Layman's Terms

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Undergrad Is It Possible to Do Photometry Without Using a CCD?

  • mishima
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Graduate Matter Antimatter Annihilation event?

  • gjonesy
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Graduate How Does the Hypersine Function Relate to the Expansion of the Universe?

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Graduate Questions re: Matter-Antimatter Annihilation

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Space Travel to Mars: Overcoming Atmosphere & Creating a Bus Stop in Space

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High School Watching Earth travel in space....what should be the location

  • abhaybakshi
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Undergrad Galaxy and Stars: Questions Answered

  • Huej
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Undergrad What Is the Difference Between Surface Brightness and Apparent Brightness?

  • Huej
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Graduate Cosmological expansion and uncertainty

  • T S Bailey
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Graduate WIMPs or MACHOs: Which Dark Matter Candidate Holds More Promise?

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate What information can be derived from the pulsars featured on the Voyager plate?

  • Stephanus
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Pleiades Visible: Last Night -Subaru WRX to Ferrari F12

  • Andy Resnick
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Graduate Does rest mass increase in conformal co-ordinates?

  • jcap
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Graduate Notes on Star Formation: A Primer for Stellar Formation

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Undergrad Einstein equivalence principle

  • Sobi
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Graduate Is the higgs field the same as spacetime foam?

  • tybeedave
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Graduate How Does General Relativity Predict an Expanding Universe

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Graduate Viscous Disc Paradox: How Does Friction Operate?

  • snorkack
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Graduate Did the universe really have zero extent at the beginning?

  • Smattering
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Graduate Time dependence of the Ratio Hubble length to scale factor

  • timmdeeg
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High School A circle in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field picture?

  • Iconoclast
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Undergrad Newest exoplanet close enough to study its potential atmosphere

  • DaveC426913
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Graduate What force is created before supernova explosion?

  • Subrata Paul
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High School What are the various types of cosmic explosions?

  • Sundown444
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Graduate Definition of Energy in Friedmann equations?

  • jcap
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Graduate Multiple big bangs in one continuum - Question

  • Pizza
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Graduate Visibility of Matter in the Universe

  • SYahoo
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Graduate Is the Universe Truly Empty or Filled with Potential?

  • David Brill
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Graduate How many generations old is our system?

  • Chrisg1960
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Undergrad Basic Astrodynamics: Understanding Total Energy

  • BaryS
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Undergrad Why do some planets occlude the Sun while others do not?

  • Chrisg1960
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Graduate Moon Landing Q&A: Solar Winds & Astronauts

  • Gaz
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Graduate Total mass and/or future of dark energy = cyclic universe?

  • mykamakiri
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Graduate Spacetime explanation to describe non-gravitational forces

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Graduate Could Zipf's Law and Dark Matter be linked in the cosmos?

  • Justice Hunter
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Graduate Gravity, Dark Matter and Dark Energy are all one

  • wolram
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Graduate Cosmology's sole "rate of expansion" is declining

  • marcus
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High School About the use of wormhole in the interstellar movie

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Graduate How can quantum tunneling create Big Bang after heat death?

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Graduate Why is the non-zero value of spatial curvature +/- 1?

  • sunrah
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Graduate Practice Images for CCD Photometry?

  • mishima
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High School What Do We Need to Survive on Mars?

  • jhukin
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Graduate Is the metric basis for space expanding as the universe expands?

  • Jim Hasty
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Undergrad Creating something from 'nothing' in our Universe

  • spacecadet11
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Undergrad Zero energy universe means nothing exists at all times

  • George bailey
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Undergrad The Universe's Sum: Is Zero Theory Plausible?

  • Brunolem33
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Graduate Trying to understand Dark Energy

  • rede96
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Graduate Alternative hypotheses regarding dark energy?

  • R. E. Nettleton
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Graduate Cold Spot in CMB: Real or Systemic Error?

  • wolram
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Graduate How have N Body simulations solved the missing satellite problem in ΛCDM?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Earth's orbit & precession affected by Venus & Jupiter?

  • innerlight
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High School Where is Tau Ceti Located in the Night Sky?

  • Chinspinner
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High School Something escapes the corona of a black hole

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Graduate What Is the Most Relevant Contribution to Earth's Orbit After the Sun?

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Undergrad Center of Lift vs. Center of Thrust

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Graduate Could an Electron-Proton Pair Form an Atom in an Alternative Universe?

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Graduate Does a finite universe require 4 spatial dimensions?

  • dilletante
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Graduate Are modified gravity models viable

  • wolram
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Graduate What happens to coronal mass ejections?

  • newjerseyrunner
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Graduate What does the big bang theory really tells us?

  • vinicius0197
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Truly Slowing Down?

  • Megalepton
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Graduate Center of Mass in Elliptical Space

  • Ontophobe
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Graduate What proportion of stars have proper motion

  • wolram
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Graduate Why low precision of the radius of Sun's orbit in MW?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate Orbital Momentum: Equal or Variable?

  • dean barry
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High School NEO 2015 TB145: 5 Facts About "Halloween Asteroid

  • Astronuc
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Graduate Are the Friedmann Equations Applicable to the Pre-Inflationary Epoch?

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Graduate Where does the mass of a black hole come from?

  • Brunolem33
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Graduate Superfluid Dark Matter: A Review of Theory & Evidence

  • Hornbein
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Undergrad Can I use the Fourier Transform to analyze the Sun's Spectrum?

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Graduate Is the True Vacuum in de Sitter Space Characterized by Minimum Mass?

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Graduate Neutron star warm matter - temperature?

  • Vrbic
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Graduate Has neutrino redshift been observed?

  • jcap
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Stargazing Some tips for a better experience of stargazing using 76 mm telescope

  • ayush solanki
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Undergrad Can Quantum Time and Space Have Countable States After the Big Bang?

  • Omega0
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Undergrad Galaxy Mass - How much is stellar/gas?

  • SteveDC
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Undergrad Use 3D laser scanning to map Outer Space?

  • Kelson Adams
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Undergrad Q: Limit on a moon's orbital radius due to sun's gravity

  • Buzz Bloom
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Stargazing Remote Controlling Truss Dobsonian Telescope?

  • GiantSheeps
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High School Cell phones used to detect cosmic rays worldwide

  • Hornbein
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High School "WT1190F" is the name for space junk that will hit Earth

  • jim mcnamara
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Experience the Milky Way via 46 billion pixels

  • jedishrfu
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Graduate Why Are Subterranean Colonies Rarely Proposed in Space Colonization Scenarios?

  • #Thomas#
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Graduate Does a rigid box of gas cool over cosmological timescales?

  • jcap
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Graduate When Did We Last Get a Glimpse of the Big Bang?

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Calculate the Gravity of a Black Hole

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