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Graduate Sagittarius A* and its event horizon

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Undergrad Question about Space -- Is Space itself a 4th dimensional object?

  • SaniT404
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Graduate Could Dark Matter Be the Source of Anomalous X-ray Emissions?

  • jim mcnamara
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Witnessing Geminids: Slower Meteor Shower Speed

  • Jonathan Scott
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Graduate Physical meaning of max. proper distance at time of emisson

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Graduate Entering a black hole theoretically of course

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Graduate How Does Entropy Influence Hawking Radiation in Black Holes?

  • avito009
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Graduate Finite Universe: Viewing All Timelines of the Universe

  • Vivek des
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Undergrad Energy cannot be created. Then where did it all come from?

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Graduate Why Is the Universe Not Symmetrical?

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Undergrad Is the tetrahedron the building block of the universe?

  • ben krempp
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Graduate Accumulated environmental damage to Hubble main mirror

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Latest Smoothed Sunspot Number posted 8 Dec '14 at SWPC

  • Doug Huffman
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Undergrad Sgr. A* - Mathematical calculations

  • AlexNis
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Graduate Constants linked to the observable universe, not whole

  • liometopum
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Undergrad How to Calculate the Distance Between Mars and Earth?

  • MMS
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Graduate Understanding Horizon Distance in Axion Cosmology Model

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Disappearance of dark matter since the Big Bang

  • !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Naive Question regarding Galaxy Rotation Curves

  • Loudzoo
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Capturing Stars with Mobile Devices: Fact or Fiction?

  • liometopum
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Graduate Dark Matter and extra dimensions

  • CaptDude
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Undergrad Did Biosphere 2 make any discoveries later used on manned spaceflight missions?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Graduate Cosmic rest frame, proper distances and comoving distances

  • resurgance2001
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Reflect Cosmic Rays: Materials for Mirrors

  • Physics_Chris
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Undergrad Power in Sun's Core: Comparing 10^26 W to 276 W/m^3

  • stinsonbr
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Undergrad Why does the Soyuz cover its main engine?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Undergrad Why doesn't ISS pass over the polar regions?

  • Ganesh Ujwal
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Graduate Understanding Hawking Radiation: Energy Subtracted from Black Holes

  • jaydnul
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Graduate Why Is Asteroid Composition Highly Varied?

  • anorlunda
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High School Why is the Solar System Flat Instead of Spherical Like Atomic Structures?

  • hafiz ns
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Undergrad Uncertainty of planetary orbital period

  • Jack21222
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High School Why if we put Saturn in water, it will float?

  • LeilaTesla
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Graduate Find the mass of a black hole from just its radius?

  • Lamdbaenergy
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Graduate Field equations Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet action

  • Nick2014
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High School The Fascinating Ponzo Illusion: How Our Brain Distorts the Size of the Moon

  • LeilaTesla
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Graduate Is Inflation the Only Solution to the Homogeneity Problem in Cosmology?

  • the_pulp
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Is the Neutron Intermediary Decay W- Boson Related to Gravitational Effects?

  • Dennis Roscoe
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Undergrad How Much Declination Do Stars Need for a Luck City at Latitude 35°?

  • walter1998
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Graduate Van Flandern's paper on "Speed of Gravity", question.

  • damianpaz
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Graduate Expanding universe and thermodynamics

  • Paul Howard A
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Undergrad Would We See Solar Events Speed Up While Traveling to the Sun?

  • Filip
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Graduate Why Are We Here Right Now Instead of Billions of Years Later?

  • Jeroen Bruijns
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Undergrad What is the fate of the universe?

  • Unnickporser
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Undergrad Escaping earth's atmosphere with a balloon

  • Dead Fish
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Undergrad What is the correlation between the age and size of the universe?

  • somebodyelse
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Graduate Smolin dispelling false impressions of the singularity

  • Doug Huffman
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Graduate Is the Weyl Curvature Hypothesis a Viable Alternative to Inflation?

  • twistor
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Undergrad Gravitational Binding Energy vs total mass energy

  • tacsec
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High School Does the Solar System spin around an axis and if so where is it?

  • Darkan9el
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Graduate Is Interstellar Travel Possible with Current Propulsion Technology?

  • dfinch
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Best Camera for deep space object

  • SpaceNerdz
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Graduate Is Spacetime Flat? Answers to Orbit Questions

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate How can black holes have electrical charge, and spin?

  • Lamdbaenergy
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Graduate Why Stars Explode: Examining the Physics Behind Supernovas

  • jaydnul
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Graduate Observational data for evolution of Hubble rate

  • Sudesh Kumar
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Graduate Anything actually physically infinite within the universe?

  • camilus
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High School Understanding Acceleration and its Impact on Time and Velocity - A Question

  • Jared Adams
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Undergrad Planetary Orbits & Orbital Velocity

  • Jimmy87
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Graduate Could the mass of a singularity be described as an empty set

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate Relativistic Degrees of freedom g(T)

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Do you know Dragan Hajdukovic's models work?

  • Lino
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Graduate Are there any particles with all the properties of a WIMP

  • Quds Akbar
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Undergrad A few very specific questions about Venus

  • Andy Weightman
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High School Can we decrese the timegap of space telsecope images?

  • Vphysics2013
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Graduate Apparent Birghtness And Absolute Brightness

  • Plutonium88
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Graduate Detection of motion of non characterised particles

  • vin300
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Graduate Simple thought Experiment, Straight Line between 2 Distant Points

  • ricardo81
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High School Planet Trajectory: Why Elliptical & Circular Paths?

  • kay
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Graduate Centrifugal Spaceship Accelerator

  • dfinch
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Graduate Universe's Informational Content and the Big Bang

  • ricardo81
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Graduate Saha equation (experiment verification?)

  • ChrisVer
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Undergrad Van Allen Belt: Why are electrons generally further out?

  • gauss44
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Using gravity to suck matter from a star (Lexx)?

  • 04qWIGk3
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Graduate Inflation & Its Effects on Universe's Expansion

  • Fabio Sachs
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Graduate Variations Séculaires des Orbites PlanétairesVSDOP87

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Is there vacuum at the Event Horizon of a Black Hole?

  • avito009
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Undergrad Basic question about spacetime and matter

  • Watari
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Graduate Visual perspective at the speed of light:

  • Lamdbaenergy
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Graduate Difference between orbital mechanics and astrodynamics ?

  • thor36
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Graduate Various doubts about Black Holes

  • tonyxon22
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Graduate Is there any evidence for MACHOs or WIMPs being Dark Matter?

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate Hawking Radiation From Black Holes:

  • Lamdbaenergy
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Graduate Stealth and detection in space: Continued

  • TrueGormagon
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Graduate Is Superconductivity Related to the Qualities of Outer Space?

  • kuro-hi
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Graduate What are the equations explaining the mass of singularities?

  • Quds Akbar
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Graduate The scale factor in flat FRW model

  • TrickyDicky
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High School About the size, brightness and distance of celestial objects

  • tonyxon22
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High School Space Cold | Why No Matter Means No Heat

  • Salvador
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Graduate How to Measure Perpendicular Peculiar Velocity in Galaxy Simulations?

  • sketos
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If you could meet the person who is the authority on brown and white dwarfs

  • GiantSheeps
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Undergrad Can a star with thousands of solar masses be formed?

  • nicolauslamsiu
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High School What is the role of gas density in determining friction in space?

  • avito009
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Graduate What Factors Influence the Density of a Hydrogen Cloud in Space?

  • BOAS
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Graduate Entropy of the initital state of the universe

  • revo74
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Graduate Is Space-Time a Continuum or a Physical Object?

  • TrickyDicky
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Undergrad Rocky Bits in Comets: Formation from Dust?

  • anorlunda
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Graduate If the speed of light was greater, how would it show up?

  • GeorgeBaxter
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Graduate Spectral energy distributions of white dwarfs in 47 Tucanae

  • GiantSheeps
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Graduate CNO Cycle: Understanding the Last Reaction and the Mystery of 16O

  • sunrah
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Graduate Convection vs Radiation at the giant stage of stars

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