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Undergrad Calculate time (or fraction of orb. period) of sat. in umbra

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What topics are covered in the University of Arizona's Cosmology Video Lectures?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Multiverse and Eternal Inflation Disproved?

  • Thomas Moore
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Graduate Entanglement as the fabric of space-time?

  • sanpkl
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Asteroid 2004 BL86 and its small moon

  • Dotini
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High School Why do natural Moons revolve around planets?

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What is the A Grand Tour of the Universe video series about?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate How to measure curvature of 3-sphere from inside its surface

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Graduate The initial mass function (IMF) of main-sequence stars,

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Graduate Is all the space there is here now or is space being created

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High School Can We Use Silicon Oxide Bags to Fly to the Moon?

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Graduate Gravitational Collapse: How Long Does it Take?

  • Ott Rovgeisha
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Graduate You think there's a multiverse? Get real

  • Garth
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High School What Would We See When Traveling to a Star at Light Speed?

  • NoamRiahi
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Graduate What Fundamental Force Played a Key Role in the Big Bang?

  • Wes Tausend
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A couple of new pix -- M42 and Eta Carina

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Graduate What happens if you travel beyond the observable universe?

  • ScientificMind
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Undergrad Astrophysics Books by Frank Shu | Student Guide

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Undergrad Heat and Magnetism: How Does the Sun Maintain Its Magnetism?

  • H012
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Graduate In depth Mars flight trajectory studies

  • Taylor Grubbs
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Graduate Can a singularity expand in volume?

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Graduate How Does the CMB Power Spectrum Relate to Angular Scales?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Did space time be created at the Big Bang?

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate What is the Jeans Anomaly and How Does it Relate to the Birth of a Star?

  • Kostas Tzim
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Graduate Was the announcement that BICEP2 has detected Inflation Gravity Waves premature?

  • Garth
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Graduate How to calculate the mass of a star using redshift?

  • LachyP
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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Theory Just a Pseudo-Issue?

  • Priyank
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Graduate Is Nature Symmetric? A Deeper Look

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Graduate Is my reasoning correct? Energy "before" the big bang?

  • toothpaste666
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Undergrad Scenarios for end of the universe

  • toothpaste666
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Graduate Why was the flat, no Lambda Universe previously favoured?

  • center o bass
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High School Gravity -- Does gravity depends on atmosphere?

  • san D
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Graduate Heavy water mismatch between comet 67P and Earth's oceans

  • HowardVAgnew
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Undergrad Space Hazards on ISS: How Much Is at Risk?

  • GTOM
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High School Dawn distance to Ceres ≈ distance to moon

  • marcus
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Graduate CMB dipole anisotropies- we are moving towards cmb?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Hypothetical Galactic Navigation System Question

  • Physt
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Graduate Assumptions in dark-energy density parameter measurement

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Graduate Giant ring system around exoplanet discovered

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Undergrad What would Kessler Syndrome really look like?

  • DamonX
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Graduate Natural Spectrum of the Universe?

  • Physt
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Space Burial: A Futuristic Dream or a Possible Reality?

  • iDimension
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Graduate Microbial mats traced in Mars sediment? Noffke's hypothesis

  • marcus
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Graduate First cosmology computer simulations

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Can Radio Telescopes Capture Detailed Images of Asteroids and Their Moons?

  • Andy Resnick
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Graduate Comets' High Deuterium-to-Hydrogen Ratios Explained

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Top Sky Viewing Apps for iPhone: A Comparison

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Does the universe expand uniformly and do closer galaxies accelerate differently?

  • orionis
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Graduate Confused about binary star systems?

  • 21joanna12
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Graduate What Makes the Present Moment Special in an Expanding Universe?

  • TEFLing
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Graduate Is Space-Time Curvature Just a Force Field?

  • Euclid Areti
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Will Dawn successfully enter orbit around Ceres?

  • marcus
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Undergrad Do Pulsars Really Produce Sounds or Are They Just Radio Wave Representations?

  • subzero0137
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Graduate Event Horizon in a closed, matter (dust) dominated universe

  • Heisenberg1993
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Undergrad What is the definition of disc scalelength?

  • PCB
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Graduate Pre big bang infinite cold inflation?

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Graduate What Happens to Gravity When an Object Travels at the Speed of Light?

  • hafiz ns
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Undergrad Diameter of Earth-like planet / gravitational force

  • chris2112
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Graduate Thermalized components/virialized

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Most total e-folds from inflation

  • chasrob
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Graduate Methods to find exoplanets more easily

  • Gitirana
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Graduate How to determine the mass of a planet using redshift?

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Undergrad How can you tell what kind of orbit a body will have?

  • 21joanna12
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Graduate Can Weibel Instability Generate Cosmic Magnetic Fields?

  • Dotini
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Graduate CMB Hemisphere of Evil: Planck Asymmetry Examined

  • Chronos
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Graduate Modelling The Sun’s Magnetic Field

  • JvanDyne
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Graduate What Makes a Black Hole a 'Hole' If It's a Point Mass?

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Undergrad What creates energy in a nova, supernova?

  • King Solomon
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Graduate Stability of Orbital Resonance Ratios

  • dragonfiremalus
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Cosmology/QED/Astrophysics Lectures: Ideas Welcome!

  • Brian S.
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Graduate So what is your favourite theory for the beginning of the universe

  • 11jdodds
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Graduate How massive do neutrinos need to be to account for all dark matter?

  • edpell
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Graduate Integrated Sachs Wolfe Effect - redshifting?

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Does energy level determine the smallest region of spacetime that can be probed?

  • Edward Wij
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Graduate Paradox on the Chandrasekhar Limit

  • ubergewehr273
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Graduate Earth-Like Planets & Iron: Questions Answered

  • Johninch
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Graduate Why aren't there any space tugs in use?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Undergrad How did "Visible light" come into existence?

  • Timelord88
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Graduate Is Dark Energy a Myth?

  • wolram
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Stargazing How Can I Build a Telescope?

  • Vphysics2013
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Where Can I Find Comet Lovejoy in the Sky Right Now?

  • davenn
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High School Earth-Sun Distance: Perfect for Life?

  • Star28
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Undergrad Image reduction and analysis software for windows

  • PLuz
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Graduate Diapl - Difference Image Analysis Package

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Graduate Question about the Penrose process

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Graduate Is it possible to understand inflation through Einstein?

  • Stoney Pete
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Graduate Understand CMB Anisotropies & Interpret Figures

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate CMB dipole anisotropies & Hubble's Law

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Floating in space and angles of galaxies

  • elusiveshame
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Graduate Making sense of distance and speed of expanding universe

  • supernova88
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Graduate When can I use radiation pressure P = αT⁴ for stars in virial equilibrium?

  • leonmate
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Graduate Anti-matter annihilation and the CMBR

  • Herbascious J
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Graduate Size of the Observable universe at the Big Bang Singularity

  • Drakkith
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Graduate I Simply Cannot Understand Olbers' Paradox -- Finite/Infinite Universe

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Graduate Differential equation for motion within stars

  • leonmate
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Graduate What happens in the center of mass of binary star system ?

  • WallaceHS
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Graduate Is Time Quantized? | Scientific American

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Graduate How to estimate/calculate stellar wind from a star?

  • AotrsCommander
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Graduate How Does Motion Influence Wave Frequency in Doppler Shift?

  • D_Laban
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Stargazing How Can I Build My Own Telescope Without a Tube?

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