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Graduate John Seach Discovers 6.0 Mag Nova in Sagittarius, NSW, Australia
- davenn
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Graduate Water vapor observed venting from Ceres
- marcus
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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
- Demystifier
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Graduate Books similar to Weinberg's The First Three Minutes
- diogenesNY
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Undergrad What is the evidence for an accelerated expanding universe
- wolram
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Graduate The Holographic Principle: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Rajkovic
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Graduate Dark Energy Evolution: Is $\Lambda$CDM Model the Best?
- wolram
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Undergrad Calculating the distance between the clusters
- CaptCoonoor
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Graduate Has There Been Further Progress in Shape Dynamics Theory?
- Feeble Wonk
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Graduate Does Dark Matter Impact the Properties of Black Holes?
- Gerinski
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Undergrad Could we get to the moon using only classical mechanics?
- mjordan2nd
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Graduate Reliable Data on Polar Aurora for CERN Experiment
- Frigorifico
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Graduate What happens to the absorbed mass in a collapsing black hole?
- JustATheory
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Graduate Calculating the radius of a star's core
- MookVanguard
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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?
- greg5555
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Graduate Cosmic expansion in quantum gravity
- palmer eldtrich
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Graduate Does the Hubble Parameter Go to Zero as the Universe Expands Forever?
- palmer eldtrich
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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude and Intensity Formula
- thegirl
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High School How is the radius of the Earth determined?
- elevenb
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Graduate What groundbreaking discoveries has Reinhard Genzel made in astrophysics?
- backward
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Graduate Is it possible that black holes create dark matter/energy?
- Michaelcomputer
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Undergrad Simulating the Solar System with N-Body Simulation in Java
- Arcthor
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High School Can We Fly Faster Than a Train?
- abushaheer
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Undergrad Increase of dark energy with expansion of universe
- Vighnesh Nagpal
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Graduate Distribution of heavier elements in a planet
- rootone
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Here are some astrophotos I've taken lately
- scott mcleod jr
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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?
- ecastro
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Graduate What does a Cosmological Constant mean?
- TEFLing
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Graduate Could the expansion of space tear us apart?
- Ghostcrown
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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?
- Orien Rigney
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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
- marcus
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Is one lifetime too little to learn all about the Universe?
- DREAMWALKER
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Graduate Extremely large Black Hole discovered 900M years after BB
- Tanelorn
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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
- slatts
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Graduate Is There an Age Problem in the LCDM Cosmological Model?
- wolram
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Graduate Several questions about the poincare recurrence time?
- dsigler924
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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?
- akashpandey
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Graduate What is Nothing? Research & Explanation
- Bob600
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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
- liometopum
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Graduate Does the expansion of the universe affect gravitational forces?
- m_robertson
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High School What really happened during the Tunguska Event?
- thetexan
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Graduate Loophole in theory offers insight into the 'lithium problem'
- phyzguy
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Undergrad Is Ahmed Hulusi's Theory Supported by Science?
- Rajkovic
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High School Asteroid 99942 Apophis impacting the Earth in 2029
- at94official
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Bisque Software for Astronomy SkyX
- solarblast
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Undergrad And now for the latest news from Alpha Centauri
- CygnusX-1
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Graduate Reticulum 2 - gamma ray emissions
- jim mcnamara
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Graduate Why can't we make a space elevator using Quantum Levitation?
- Troy Barnes
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Graduate Wave equation given a cosmological inflationary metric
- Nick2014
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Who Was the First Woman in Space?
- davenn
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High School Big Bang Theory Explained: Is It Disproved?
- BATMANofPHYSICS
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Graduate Scott Dodelson Modern Cosmology 4.2
- H.fulls
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Graduate What is the smallest thing discovered in our universe?
- Lobos
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Graduate Inside Out: The Possibility of White Holes and Black Holes Within Each Other
- BATMANofPHYSICS
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High School Turning Around in Space: The Challenge of No Gravity
- Spock
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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 ?
- bwana
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High School What happen when we reach black hole?
- Anand Wilson
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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
- houhou.trad
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Graduate How to Calculate Rotation Curves for a Spiral Galaxy?
- zaq
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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?
- JvD
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Purchasing binoculars for stargazing advice
- cristo
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Graduate Why must singularities create an entire universe?
- Cadillac Jack
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High School Confusion regarding Solar Eclipse
- Sanket Jayn
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Graduate 41430 Arietis Quadruple Star System
- |Glitch|
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Graduate Why decaying false-vacuum necessary for inflation?
- Lapidus
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Undergrad Astronomers Observe Supernova & Find They’re Watching Reruns
- CaptDude
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Graduate Is Dark Matter Truly Dark or Invisible and Can it Form Crystalline Structures?
- Delta2
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Graduate Calculating Orbital Pathways with Ellipses and Rosettes
- mreuterskiold3
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Graduate Are all universes the same age in the Multiverse?
- Canada Bob
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Graduate Cosmological principles and their results
- Quarlep
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Jupiter's Moons - A Night of Stargazing from Romania
- scotian280
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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?
- richard9678
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Graduate A noobie questioning the nature of space
- ax0
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Graduate Closest mass to the line of sight
- center o bass
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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?
- Dipto
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Graduate Acceleration a Function of Density, yet Density is Constant?
- HeavyMetal
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Graduate How would one protect the Universe?
- WiseGreatTrixie
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Graduate What Happens Inside a Black Hole?
- The Fishicist
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