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Graduate John Seach Discovers 6.0 Mag Nova in Sagittarius, NSW, Australia

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Graduate Water vapor observed venting from Ceres

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Undergrad Rare Plume on Mars: A Mystery Baffling Scientists

  • Dotini
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Graduate Pre-Big Bang Space-Time: A Possibility or a Speculation?

  • H3TS
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Graduate Universe shrinking instead of expanding with growing particle masses

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Graduate Books similar to Weinberg's The First Three Minutes

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Undergrad What is the evidence for an accelerated expanding universe

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Graduate The Holographic Principle: Separating Fact from Fiction

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Graduate Dark Energy Evolution: Is $\Lambda$CDM Model the Best?

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Undergrad Calculating the distance between the clusters

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Graduate Has There Been Further Progress in Shape Dynamics Theory?

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Graduate Does Dark Matter Impact the Properties of Black Holes?

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Undergrad Could we get to the moon using only classical mechanics?

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Graduate Reliable Data on Polar Aurora for CERN Experiment

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Graduate What happens to the absorbed mass in a collapsing black hole?

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Graduate Calculating the radius of a star's core

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Undergrad Are there gaps between the rays coming from the sun?

  • Petahanks
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Graduate Why is gravity stronger on earth than the moon?

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Graduate Cosmic expansion in quantum gravity

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Graduate Does the Hubble Parameter Go to Zero as the Universe Expands Forever?

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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude and Intensity Formula

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High School How is the radius of the Earth determined?

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Graduate What groundbreaking discoveries has Reinhard Genzel made in astrophysics?

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Graduate Is it possible that black holes create dark matter/energy?

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Undergrad Simulating the Solar System with N-Body Simulation in Java

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High School Can We Fly Faster Than a Train?

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Undergrad Increase of dark energy with expansion of universe

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Graduate Distribution of heavier elements in a planet

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Here are some astrophotos I've taken lately

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Graduate Could Quantum Tunneling from Nothing Equate to the Past or Future?

  • slatts
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Undergrad Why are Earth-size Planets candidate as habitable planets?

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Graduate What does a Cosmological Constant mean?

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Graduate Could the expansion of space tear us apart?

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Undergrad Doubts about nebulae and star formation

  • Monsterboy
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Graduate Dodecahedron universe after PLanck

  • palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Dark Matter: Could It Form Structures?

  • Vighnesh Nagpal
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Undergrad Is Gravity a well kept secret?

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Graduate Is MOND still a viable theory for dark matter?

  • Chronos
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Graduate An explanation for hemispherical anisotropy in the CMB?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Would Rapid Expansion of a Parallel Universe Affect a Black Hole?

  • Dryson
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Graduate Ice worlds' inner oceans--Emily Lakdawalla

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Is one lifetime too little to learn all about the Universe?

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Graduate Extremely large Black Hole discovered 900M years after BB

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Graduate Thought Experiment: Where Does the Missing Energy Go?

  • Andrev
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Graduate How does Horava Lifshitz gravity affect the speed of light in bounce solutions?

  • palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Scale of perturbations re entropy, in quantum bounce

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Graduate Is There an Age Problem in the LCDM Cosmological Model?

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Graduate Several questions about the poincare recurrence time?

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Graduate Temperature at beginning of Electroweak Epoch?

  • Stan Stuchinski
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Undergrad Why is the universe expanding if its temperature is cooling?

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Graduate What is Nothing? Research & Explanation

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Undergrad What's the point of building a space elevator?

  • 1832vin
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Graduate Are present and future perspectives different?

  • HZY
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Graduate US 708: Hypervelocity Star Ejected by Supernova Breaks G.S.R

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Graduate Does the expansion of the universe affect gravitational forces?

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High School What really happened during the Tunguska Event?

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Graduate Loophole in theory offers insight into the 'lithium problem'

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Undergrad Is Ahmed Hulusi's Theory Supported by Science?

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High School Asteroid 99942 Apophis impacting the Earth in 2029

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Bisque Software for Astronomy SkyX

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Undergrad And now for the latest news from Alpha Centauri

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Graduate Reticulum 2 - gamma ray emissions

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Graduate Why can't we make a space elevator using Quantum Levitation?

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Graduate Wave equation given a cosmological inflationary metric

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Who Was the First Woman in Space?

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High School Big Bang Theory Explained: Is It Disproved?

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Graduate Scott Dodelson Modern Cosmology 4.2

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Graduate What is the smallest thing discovered in our universe?

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Graduate Inside Out: The Possibility of White Holes and Black Holes Within Each Other

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High School Turning Around in Space: The Challenge of No Gravity

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Graduate The shape of what we can observe?

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate Other Theorys for the beginning of the Universe?

  • Joe Martin
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Graduate Missing Matter Problem and Galactic Flows

  • Michael Faraday
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Graduate Why can we still detect the CMB ?

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High School What happen when we reach black hole?

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Graduate Calculating the Age of Planets without Radioactive Dating

  • Kelson Adams
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Graduate Required backround for quantum cosmology

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Graduate How to Calculate Rotation Curves for a Spiral Galaxy?

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Graduate Is there a subtle symmetry that may not apply in an infinite universe?

  • Quarlep
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Graduate Has Anyone Experienced Challenges with the Weber-Davis Solar Wind Model?

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Purchasing binoculars for stargazing advice

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Graduate Why must singularities create an entire universe?

  • Cadillac Jack
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High School Confusion regarding Solar Eclipse

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Graduate 41430 Arietis Quadruple Star System

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Graduate Why decaying false-vacuum necessary for inflation?

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Undergrad Astronomers Observe Supernova & Find They’re Watching Reruns

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Graduate Is Dark Matter Truly Dark or Invisible and Can it Form Crystalline Structures?

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Graduate Calculating Orbital Pathways with Ellipses and Rosettes

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Graduate Are all universes the same age in the Multiverse?

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Graduate Cosmological principles and their results

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Jupiter's Moons - A Night of Stargazing from Romania

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Graduate Is the Universe Flat or Closed According to WMAP Data?

  • palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Is C = π x D Possible in a Universe of Nothing?

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Graduate A noobie questioning the nature of space

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Graduate Closest mass to the line of sight

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Graduate Is the Boltzmann Brains Problem a Challenge for Eternal Inflation Cosmology?

  • palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Can Black Holes Be Utilized for Practical Purposes?

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Graduate Acceleration a Function of Density, yet Density is Constant?

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Graduate How would one protect the Universe?

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Graduate What Happens Inside a Black Hole?

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