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Undergrad Difference between conductors and empty space

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Are Multiverses and Intelligent Life More Than Just Beliefs?

  • Lamonte Johnson
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Undergrad What would it be like to be at a Lagrange Point?

  • PPERERA
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Graduate Speed and / or expansion rate of the Universe?

  • Shafat Hasan
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Graduate What is the role of dark energy in the expansion of the universe?

  • FallingSky
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Graduate Gravitational Slowing Justified in Flat/Near-Flat Universe

  • yogi
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Graduate Introducing the Model T time unit "Lizzie": key to H_infinity

  • marcus
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Graduate How Can I Measure Stellar Aberration Accurately?

  • jk1956
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Graduate Interstellar Exocomets Density & Impact Probability

  • Aaron8547
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Graduate Gravitational attraction between two atoms

  • Dmitry Tyurev
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Graduate Evidence that time and space began at the instant of the big

  • serp777
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Graduate Star post-main sequence timescale

  • Sherrod
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Graduate Test set-up for full dark matter simulation

  • ohannuks
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Is Stacking RAW Images the Key to High-Quality Astrophotography?

  • Andy Resnick
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Graduate Does the Expansion of the Universe Affect Thermal Equilibrium?

  • m_robertson
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Undergrad Venus Transit - What should be a simple problem

  • Mazin Nasralla
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High School Need to exchange a helical focuser for a rack and pinion one

  • rodentraiser
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High School How large an area is that brightly illuminted patch from stars covering?

  • james gander
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Graduate Properties of an evolved universe

  • McGarr
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Graduate Could energy be extracted from spacetime expansion?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Can the CMB Reference Frame be Changed in the Newtonian Friedmann Equation?

  • Mysteryciel
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Graduate 814 Ghostly Galaxies in the Coma Cluster

  • CygnusX-1
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Graduate Radiation dominated universe in Newton's approximation (no )

  • Mishra
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Graduate Inflation & Pertubative 1st order Cosmology: A timeline?

  • JJNic
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Graduate Age of universe -- Probability why it is so young?

  • tom aaron
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High School Will the Voyager Golden Records withstand the harshness of space?

  • arunshanker
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Graduate Does the Equation 1=Ω_k+Ω_m+Ω_Λ Hold for All Universe Types?

  • Mysteryciel
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Graduate Chemical potential equilibrium cosmology

  • center o bass
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Graduate White Dwarfs Catalogue - Find Mass & Radius Data

  • ORF
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Graduate Hubble redshift and calculation of galactic rotation curves

  • ConformalGrpOp
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Graduate Early Universe Black Holes: A Challenge to Standard LCDM?

  • Garth
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Graduate Adiabatic perturbations -- why the name?

  • center o bass
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Graduate Why Does Everything in the Universe Rotate?

  • somebodyelse
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Graduate Integrated Boltzman equation for dark matter

  • karlzr
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Graduate Recent Early Universe Cosmology Review - Funding Essay

  • lasm2000
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Graduate Interpretting the cosmological constant

  • bjb406
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Graduate The impossible early galaxy formation

  • wolram
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Undergrad Pluto's moon Nix and its wild tumbling orbit

  • davenn
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Graduate Does universe expansion create new points in space?

  • spaceman spiff
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Undergrad Will future stars create new elements through evolution?

  • elusiveshame
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Graduate Massive primordial tensor perturbations?

  • 302021895
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Undergrad Discover Earth's Plasma Rings | Cleo Loi Proves Existence of Plasma Tubes

  • jedishrfu
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Graduate Understanding Solar UV Radiation and Its Impact on Earth: A Brief Overview

  • neilparker62
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Graduate Functional dependence of the size of the visible universe

  • A. Neumaier
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Graduate Are Primordial Black Holes Still a Viable Candidate for Dark Matter?

  • newjerseyrunner
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Undergrad Is it theoretically possible for a star to orbit a planet?

  • RisingSun361
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Stargazing Reflector telescope, what to do?

  • SofiaMo
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Graduate Is Deja Vu the Brain's misinterpretation of Spacetime?

  • mero55
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Undergrad Milky Way Mass: 60,000 Ly from Galactic Center

  • ViperSRT3g
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Graduate Debunking the Mathematical Proof Against the Big Bang Theory

  • Mark D
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Undergrad Number of Particles in Universe: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons

  • Stephanus
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I just saw a fireball and nobody cares

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad Does Inflation Refer to the Expansion of Space or the Entire Universe?

  • CassiopeiaA
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Graduate Does Isotropy Necessarily Imply Homogeneity in the Universe?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Star Nuclear Reaction: P+P, D+P, He3 and CNO Cycle

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad Why do small bodies stay in orbit around large bodies?

  • Jireat
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Graduate Sky temperature profiles and black body radiation

  • lostminty
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Graduate Emergence of much smaller stars in early Universe?

  • AtomicPunk
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Graduate Where Does the 10^-35 s^-2 Cosmological Constant Value Come From?

  • Thomas Moore
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Graduate Excluding the Standard Model from Dark Matter?

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate Article with good analysis of different models?

  • Ans
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Graduate Did a Giant Impact Make the Martian Moons?

  • CygnusX-1
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Graduate Is There Evidence of a Type Ia Supernova Formed via the Single Degenerate Mode?

  • Chronos
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Graduate A Question about the formation of white holes off black hole

  • edenk
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Graduate What is the limit of classical GR in describing the singularity of a black hole?

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad Is the Density of Points in an Interval Twice as Much with Double Length?

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad Understanding the Units of Permittivity of Free Space in Coulomb's Law

  • wasi-uz-zaman
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Graduate How Do Direct Collapse Black Holes Form in the Early Universe?

  • Chronos
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Undergrad Are Asteroids Formed by Collisions or Accretion?

  • Lamonte Johnson
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Graduate Where Can I Access a Database for Universe Mass Distribution and Movement?

  • Omega0
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Graduate CMB photons, why are they still around?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Where do things go after they were sucked by a Blackhole?

  • at94official
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Micrometeorite caught on camera in Oklahoma?

  • mp3car
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Graduate Sagittarius A*: the riddle of gas cloud G2

  • EinsteinKreuz
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Graduate Ceres/Mars as manufacturing outposts (analytic exercise)

  • marcus
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Graduate How to calculate the Age of the Universe, from observations

  • marcus
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High School Is This Picture Really About the CNO Cycle?

  • Stephanus
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Graduate Is Matter/Energy Eternal? Mechanisms for an Endless Universe?

  • Deepak K Kapur
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Can You Spot All the Galaxies in This Virgo Supercluster Photo?

  • Andy Resnick
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Graduate Trajectory opimization: Fast preview algorithm

  • Profiler
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Undergrad Can Kepler's 2nd Law be applied to more than one planet?

  • Overt
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Graduate Other evidences of the Galaxys' Acceleration

  • meTheNaive
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Graduate What does it mean by a flat universe?

  • Happiness
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Undergrad Question about Kepler's 1st law and barycentric orbits

  • RisingSun361
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Graduate Can We Harness Black Holes for Faster Flybys?

  • Dr Wu
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Graduate Four random quasars in a straight line?

  • jimgraber
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Graduate When can globular clusters be considered collisionless?

  • kderakhshani
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Graduate Distances for classical objects vs. photons

  • TRB8985
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Graduate Can you have an antimatter black hole?

  • Philjhinson
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Graduate Just for fun: recast the Friedmann eqn. to be about volume instead

  • marcus
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A&C Reference Library - Astronomy & Cosmology Resources

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High School Are Galaxies in Hubble Telescope Photos of Clusters?

  • synfiniti
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Graduate Can Anti Matter Galaxies and Black Holes Exist Together?

  • Stephanus
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Graduate Center of mass - cant find error in derivation

  • Kyouran
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Graduate Questions on the Lyman Alpha Profile

  • neilparker62
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Undergrad Can light pressure affect the motion of galaxies?

  • nitsuj
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Graduate Do clocks measure conformal time?

  • jcap
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High School Is Time an Illusion? A 13-Year-Old's Take on the Block Universe Concept

  • Canutej24
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Graduate Conformal symmetry of FRW spacetime

  • jcap
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Undergrad Calculating an Escape from Earth's Gravity: Can It Be Done?

  • Salvador
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