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Graduate Observational difference between OS and FLRW

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Graduate Can NASA's Impossible EM Drive Revolutionize Space Travel?

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Graduate Do Dark matter and Dark energy interact?

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Graduate Mass of a galaxy without dark matter and with dark matter

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Graduate How does the universe harness temperature differences to build structures?

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Graduate Is the Multiverse of Cantor Dust a Viable Solution to Olbers' Paradox?

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Undergrad Which laptop operating system do astronomers most often use?

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Graduate Observing galaxies that recess faster than c

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Graduate Complex cyanides detected in protoplanetary disk around MWC 480

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Graduate Can supernovas eject stars from their orbits?

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Graduate Looking for the complete fusion process inside our Sun.

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Graduate How much energy do we need to make an expanding universe?

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Graduate Cold Spot in Cosmic Background Radiation

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Undergrad Dark Matter is baryonic matter passed through a black hole?

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Graduate Can a Black Hole Form Directly from a Collapsing Protostar Cloud?

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Undergrad Globular cluster luminosity function

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Graduate Cosmological and doppler redshift

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Graduate Do gravitational waves distort spacetime or travel with it?

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Graduate Marcus's 'no-pressure' model in different jacket

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Why is the Moon going above Jupiter in the sky?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Graduate Is Neutron Star Energy a Disappointment for Nuclear Renewables?

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Stargazing Upgrade Your Telescope Today: Top 10-Inch Aperture Options Under £600

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M51 photo with 1 hour integration at 800mm f/5.6 ISO 2000

  • Andy Resnick
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Graduate Life and matter in exotic spatial conditions

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Graduate How would Pluto and Charon appear from Earth if both tidally locked in nested orbits?

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Graduate What Was Space and Time Before the Big Bang?

  • Emre Deveci
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Graduate Calculating albedo and eccentricity

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Undergrad Can Non-Destructive Methods Stop a Giant Asteroid from Hitting Earth?

  • GladScientist
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High School What happens if we launched a shot from a pistol in space?

  • Dr.ahmad adnan
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Graduate Discrete steps in dispersion measures of fast radio bursts

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Graduate How Do We See The Background Radiation?

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Undergrad What Happens if a Black Hole Dies or Disappears?

  • Emmanuel_Euler
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What stars/star systems can I see tonight?

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High School Is Oxygen-Based Life Possible in Other Galaxies?

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Undergrad Re. Dark matter. Concept of nothing

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Graduate Standard candle - in question - affects distance estimates

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Graduate Flat galaxy rotation curves without dark matter

  • Mike Stalkfleet
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Undergrad Which is the most powerful black hole or a worm hole and why

  • Dr.ahmad adnan
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Graduate How to check a statement about orbital angles of exoplanets?

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Graduate How can BAO and SN constraints be compared for measuring dark energy?

  • wolram
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Graduate What is the Purpose of Fitting Supernova Remnant Spectra?

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Graduate Can a Single Particle Move in an Empty Universe?

  • CaptDude
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CRAYFIS Initiative: Is it Worth Joining?

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Undergrad How scientists have measured universe?

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Undergrad Olbers' paradox and infinite number of stars

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Graduate Why Does Luminosity Drop Before a Star Becomes a White Dwarf?

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Centaurus A image from a 27.5 inch telescope

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Omega Centauri: Amazing Image from 2-Month Clear Night

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NASA pictures of dark matter collisions

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Graduate Saha equation partition function for Argon?

  • randombill
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Undergrad Much ado about (almost) nothing ?

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Graduate Which stage of the sun consists neutron star/stars

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High School From what dark matter in space consist of?

  • Dr.ahmad adnan
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Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events

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Graduate Looking for free downloadable articles on primordial He

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Graduate Visualizing a wormhole and black hole for Interstellar

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Undergrad Why is the sun mostly hydrogen if heavy elements sank to the center?

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Graduate Can a radius of curvature be calulated from omega-k?

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Different understanding of the universe if .

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Graduate Scientists observe potential signs of dark matter

  • wolram
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Graduate What does a dimensionless universe mean?

  • Rodrigo Cesar
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Graduate Fitting a model to astronomical data

  • Buzz Bloom
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Graduate How was matter distributed in the ionized plasma before photon decoupling?

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Undergrad Why are astronauts weightless en route to the moon?

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Undergrad Which self-contained Big Bang models do cosmologists favor?

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Graduate Light clocks measure conformal time - detailed argument

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Undergrad Where Did the Emptiness for the Big Bang Come From?

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High School How does time expand?

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Graduate Equilibrium at Universe (possible?)

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Graduate Heated balloon analogy for dark energy and cosmological expansion

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Graduate Acceleration of expansion of Universe not that fast?

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Undergrad Why do geosynchronous satellites have to orbit above the Equator?

  • question dude
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Graduate Did early cosmic microwave background radiation appear as visible light?

  • martix
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What Does Pluto Really Look Like?

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Undergrad Is the CMB unique to our galaxy or present in all galaxies?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Absolute magnitude and luminosity

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Graduate Precession of Mercury and period of rotation

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Undergrad Studying Astronomy: Struggling with Cosmology Maths

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Graduate Does the Higgs field mean that space has energy?

  • David McArthur
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Graduate What does the abbreviation YP stand for?

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad Why can't we reach to Speed of light at Space?

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Graduate Can axions make up dark matter?

  • wolram
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Graduate Measuring redshift from type 1a supernova

  • Rohan1997
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Graduate How do micro black holes maintain their state?

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Undergrad Difference in power and absolute magnitude of a star

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Graduate Dark energy and type 1a supernovae?

  • 21joanna12
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Graduate Is our locally measured time actually conformal time?

  • jcap
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Graduate Do electron clouds collapse closer to nuclei in neutron stars?

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Graduate Black Hole Time Dilation And Observation Of Accretion

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Graduate How does dark energy increase without violating energy conservation?

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Graduate Are Pop III Stars Finally Detected in I Zw 18?

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Graduate Observed Redshift Variation Over TIme

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A Space Geek's Return to the Forums

  • Laura Forczyk
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Graduate Is Chaisson's View on Cosmic Evolution and Entropy Mainstream in Physics?

  • Jimster41
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Chance for the public to name features on Pluto and Charon

  • Mad scientist
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Graduate Argument for Grand Design, maybe?

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Graduate A couple of inflationary problems

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High School Have you explored the incredible galaxies at Galaxy Zoo?

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Graduate Does time expand along with space?

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