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Undergrad Gravitational Influence of Stars in a Galaxy

  • Bruce Williams
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Undergrad Where does the energy come from for Enceladus' geysers?

  • #Thomas#
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Graduate Possible Way to Measure Dark Energy?

  • Orthokid
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Undergrad Which field deals with this(Astronomy,Astrophysics) ?

  • Christian Grey
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Graduate Do the black holes have infinite mass ?

  • kapoor_kapoor
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Graduate Does Black Hole Information Storage Suggest a Holographic Universe?

  • alex2515
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Graduate How we are still able to detect CMB photons?

  • CuriousNilave
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Graduate Is the Total Energy of the Universe Really Zero?

  • thinkandmull
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Graduate Why is the Universe (nearly) flat?

  • wabbit
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Undergrad What percentage of galaxies have central black holes?

  • Omega0
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High School Dark matter, what do we need to have here?

  • Jose Leal
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Graduate Is there a size or duration limit on fields having mass?

  • slatts
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Graduate The case for [or against] dark matter

  • Chronos
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Undergrad How the satellite parts get damaged

  • praveena
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High School Lunar and Solar eclipse - same times a year?

  • christian0710
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High School If the universe is infinite, was there infinite matter at the Big Bang?

  • Rupert Young
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Graduate Kepler's Second Law - reaching an unsolvable equation?

  • Upsilon
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High School Can viscosity of space explain cosmological redshift?

  • Kevin Haney
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Graduate Is Galilean Creation a Viable Alternative to Inflationary Cosmology?

  • Chronos
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Undergrad Neil deGrass Tyson "Orbital Erosion"

  • mgkii
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High School The sun at midnight from North Pole

  • Pjpic
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Undergrad Age of the observable Universe?

  • G.D.
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Graduate Universal Gravity: Does It Affect Us Beyond the CEH Line?

  • Gaz
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Graduate What happens when a high-mass black hole collides with a low-mass one?

  • praveena
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Graduate Is the Universe's Expansion Truly Accelerating Based on Redshift Observations?

  • Vidar T
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Undergrad Calculating AU from the 2012 Venus transit using parallax

  • YarnJunior
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Graduate Understanding Coherent Large Scale Modes in Power Spectra

  • shirin
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Graduate Will the Universe Collapse Soon?

  • wolram
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Graduate Can a closed universe be considered a closed system?

  • Neptune2235
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Graduate Quantum tunnel into becoming solid iron

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad Peanut-shaped near-Earth asteroid imaged by radar

  • Spinnor
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Graduate Why is there more matter than antimatter at this point?

  • Liza_semi-nerd
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Graduate How can the observable universe be 46 billion lyrs in size?

  • Rupert Young
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How is the ISS Captured Using a Telephoto Lens?

  • Andy Resnick
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Graduate What happens to atoms and matter during heat death of the universe?

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad HD 219134b: closest rocky exoplanet at 21 light years

  • PWiz
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Graduate Why inflation is needed despite assuming a flat, uniform early universe

  • DiracPool
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Undergrad How did planets get their Orbits?

  • Iseous
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Graduate Can LQC be distinguished from normal inflation through observational windows?

  • palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Predicted Heat Death of the Universe

  • JonathanCollins
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Graduate Does the standard model define the phase space of the universe?

  • Jimster41
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Undergrad Why does a black hole have stronger gravity than its progenitor star?

  • AF HUNZAI
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High School What is the center of the universe?

  • KylieVegas
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Graduate Can unfalsifiable pre-Big Bang theories produce useful research?

  • anorlunda
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Graduate Can distant aliens detect infrared radiation from my body during yoga?

  • kos
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Graduate Did Time Exist Before the Big Bang?

  • Robert P
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Undergrad Astrophysics uses wave optics or geometrical optics?

  • Christian Grey
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Graduate Dark matter particle search at CERN vs cosmology simulations

  • ohannuks
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Graduate Is Terraforming Uranus And Neptune Possible?

  • Jupiter60
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Graduate Newtonian Friedmann Equation, Referance frame, Homogeneity

  • RyanH42
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Graduate Why Photons Can't Explain Dark Matter

  • Docon
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Undergrad How do we know the universe is infinite?

  • Rupert Young
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Graduate What actually happens when the black hole takes the photons

  • Preslav
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Graduate Which dimension does the black hole belongs?

  • praveena
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High School How Fast Is the Moon Moving Away from Earth?

  • elistein
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Insights LCDM cosmological model in simplified math (part 3)

  • Jorrie
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Graduate Can Black Holes Truly Absorb All Matter and Energy?

  • Shailesh Pincha
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Insights Approximate LCDM expansion in simplified math (part 2)

  • Jorrie
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Graduate Does Fleming's right hand rule explain Earth's orbit?

  • EtherURWithMe
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Undergrad Term for space in front of the expanding universe.

  • Federico777
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Graduate Expansion is a compounded error based on a wrong assumption?

  • Dry
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Graduate Measuring the entropy of the universe?

  • noahcharris
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Graduate Variable Speed Of Light In General Relativity

  • Paradigm Shift
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Graduate New Theory: Dark Matter Acts Like Pion - Evidence Found

  • RyanH42
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Undergrad How do they know distance of the original standard candle?

  • james gander
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Undergrad Earth-Like Planet orbits Sun-Like Star

  • Quotidian
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Graduate Why does critical density have factors of 3H₀² and 8πG?

  • Luminescent
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Graduate From Aeon to Zeon to Zeit, simplifying the standard cosmic model

  • marcus
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High School Does theory of expansion effect gravity?

  • Shankar Dev
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Graduate Is there a theoretical min. size/mass limit to a black hole?

  • DDH
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Undergrad Is the Fermi Gamma Ray Detector Capable of Detecting Individual Photons?

  • anorlunda
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Graduate Utility of observational Hubble parameter data on DE

  • Garth
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Undergrad Why Pluto's diameter excludes atmosphere but Jupiter's includes it

  • 1977ub
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Graduate Cumulative number counts of galaxy clusters

  • mahya
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Graduate Why do we believe dark matter exists?

  • badseed
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Graduate What does it mean to have a Black Hole Spike?

  • majormuss
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Graduate Are Saturn's Rings Caused by Fractal Structures?

  • Jimster41
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Graduate Photons and Space-Time Expansion

  • CjCastro
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Undergrad Can two stars in a binary system have intersecting orbits?

  • RingNebula57
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High School Is it possible to keep a rip in space open? All info welcome

  • nrot
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Undergrad Do quasars and blazars exist today?

  • Jupiter60
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Graduate What's the Dark Matter Density in Universe?

  • RyanH42
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Graduate Does space expansion affect the rate of time?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Non-Flat ΛCDM Model: Consistency with BOSS Result on Universe Curvature

  • wolram
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Insights Approximate LCDM Expansion in Simplified Math - Comments

  • Jorrie
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Undergrad Function driven solar system model.

  • abdullahi abass
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Graduate Ring nebula imaging at 800mm with central star resolved

  • Andy Resnick
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Undergrad How can we see galaxies behind other galaxies?

  • theironmaiden
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Undergrad What causes gravity to form stars from nebulae?

  • thecosmos123456
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High School Why does the Hubble telescope show the past universe?

  • revv
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Undergrad Calculating mass of Milky way Galaxy

  • RyanH42
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Graduate Similarities and differences Black Holes and Big Bang

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Is Dark matter homogeneous in Universe?

  • RyanH42
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High School How far can transmissions go in space?

  • cellurl
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Graduate Does gravity get destroyed in a black hole ?

  • lee sarson
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High School Is Pluto Really Bigger Than Eris? New Horizons Settles the Debate.

  • CygnusX-1
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Stargazing Is there a proper way to clean a telescope mirror?

  • SofiaMo
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Graduate Has someone solved the cosmological constant problem?

  • RyanH42
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Undergrad Big Bang Expansion Creates Planets?

  • Onehope
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Graduate Proportions and other Stuff about Expansion

  • ComaBerenices
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