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Graduate Inhabitable planets at doable distances ever or somewhere?

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Graduate Empty Space: Energy, Warping, Bending, & Gravity

  • iDimension
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Graduate Carbon based Life vs. Plasma based Life.

  • jeremyjr
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Graduate Rethinking the origins of the universe

  • Shadowmaru
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Graduate What happens beyond 13,7 billion light-years?

  • Jozsef
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Graduate Cross-Referencing MK5(SAO) & BD-HD Numbers with Constellations, NGCs & ICs

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate Dark energy: is it just "lost" light?

  • Alessio P.
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Graduate Where is the future if everywhere is the past?

  • iDimension
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Undergrad Detecting more than 1 exoplanet using Radial Velocity Method.

  • avito009
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Graduate Age Universe: Unobservable Matter & Galaxies

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Graduate The Cosmological Constant with Inflation is not Constant

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Graduate Analysis: Why BICEP2 & PLAnck Are in Tension

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Graduate Deriving the rayleigh-jeans limit of planck law of radiation

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Graduate Helium formation during nucleosynthesis

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Undergrad Gravitational pull of manmade satellites

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Graduate Meteoritical History of the Solar System

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Stargazing Mirror Mounting Structure in Space Telescope

  • D.R.U
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Graduate How Do Neutrinos Carry So Much Energy in Supernova Explosions?

  • anorlunda
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Undergrad Understanding Redshift: Mathias' 15-Year-Old Query

  • MathiasArendru
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Graduate Proof That Universe Can Form Spontaneously From Nothingness

  • Violet Keil
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Graduate Are Redshifts Used to Specify Locations in Cosmology?

  • center o bass
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Graduate Is our universe inside a blackhole?

  • Haktarfone
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Graduate Can an eccentric planet be habitable?

  • willstaruss22
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Graduate Colliding Black Holes: Antimatter vs Normal?

  • guysensei1
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Graduate If the earth's core was to abruptly turn solid

  • Mr.CROWLER
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Extra-Terrestrial Life Discovered in Outer Space

  • StevieTNZ
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Undergrad Calculation the orbital period of Moon.

  • avito009
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Undergrad How light travels such long distances?

  • Mohammad Hadi
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Graduate Multipole Map with Healpix routines

  • physfed
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Graduate Physical infinities, what are the limitations?

  • iDimension
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Graduate Is Planck Dust Modeling Consistent with BICEP2 Assumptions?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Why does the galaxy LEDA 074886 appear rectangular?

  • !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Why is the Universe Expanding and Not Contracting?

  • lu214
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Graduate Neutron Star at Near Light Speed

  • wmikewells
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High School How to Improve Your 8th Grade Paper on the Collision of Two Galaxies?

  • c-english
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Graduate Black holes and the centrifugal force paradox

  • joebox
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Graduate Questions re: the edge of the observable universe

  • Zeno
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Undergrad List of Stars and Objects equating Names

  • Philosophaie
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Graduate How Did The CCCP See Past Venus' Clouds Prior to Landing?

  • MattRob
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Graduate Modern Cosmology: Fine Tuning Problem | Adarsh

  • xn_axe
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Graduate Time derivative of Hubble parameter

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Primodial power spectrum of scalar perturbations

  • thecommexokid
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Graduate Why Does Gravity Around a Black Hole Remain Normal Until Extremely Close?

  • avito009
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Graduate Why does spatial curvature become observable only in late universe?

  • Lapidus
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Graduate Infinity and mathematical phyisics

  • Pjpic
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Undergrad A quick question about Elliptical/Circular Orbit

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Graduate Mathematical Analysis on Cold Dark Matter

  • xn_axe
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Must Watch Solar Flare Video - Stunning Detail!

  • davenn
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Graduate Fluctuations of density in De Sitter Space

  • Gars
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Graduate Rarely asked question: converting 1/(Hubble time) to km/s per Mpc

  • marcus
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Graduate How Can the Distance Between Two Points Exceed the Size of the Universe?

  • LoudAmp
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Graduate Flux Limited Sample: What Is It & Why Use It?

  • venkatpunjabi
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Graduate Why is the universe expanding at an accelerating rate?

  • Domenico94
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Graduate Thanks for any thoughts,Could Black Holes Pump Energy into the Quantum Foam?

  • Gizmo
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Graduate I'm new this -- super force splitting into weak and strong forces?

  • Mr.CROWLER
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High School Is There Really a Second Sun in Our Solar System?

  • Ibby143
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High School Questions about my stratosphere photos

  • avidemux
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Graduate Another issue with the Hawking equations

  • liometopum
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Graduate Looking Again at the Balloon Analogy

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Graduate Could the Universe Be Expanding as Wave Fronts?

  • marlowgs
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Graduate Expanding space thru matter vs matter thru space

  • awcrowe
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Stargazing Buying a Telescope: First-Time Advice

  • nick1o2
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Graduate Comoving Dynamics: Overcoming STR for >c Recessional Velocities

  • yogi
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Why haven't we gone back to the moon?

  • DruidArmy
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Graduate Questions about the universe I resolving.

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Graduate Event horizon ad the age of our universe

  • Erland
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Undergrad Universe is expanding like a balloon

  • Aontaigh
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Undergrad Does Gravity Have Lines of Force Like Magnetism?

  • DOCK1088
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Undergrad How Do Scientists Distinguish Between Red Shift and a Red Dwarf's Natural Color?

  • Ibby143
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Graduate What is the evidence for the multiverse?

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Undergrad University project for astrophysics

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Graduate Why does the amount of dark matter increase the further away from the

  • sytric
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Graduate Is Supersymmetry still viable in cosmology?

  • wolram
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August 18 - Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate Big Bang : Singularity or Singularities?

  • Jozsef
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Laniakea: Our home supercluster (video)

  • Fredrik
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Holy Close Call Batman, asteroid 2014 RC

  • Creator
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Graduate What is the Multiverse and How Does it Impact Our Understanding of Physics?

  • jnbp13
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High School How High is Space? Astronomy Facts

  • !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Does the Universe Exist if We're Not Looking?

  • !Jon Snow!
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Graduate NFW Dark Matter Halos and Virial Radius

  • zephyr5050
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Graduate Possible for the Big Bang to have come from The Universe before it?

  • shukujo
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High School When I look at the Milky Way, what am I looking at?

  • kmm
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Stargazing Is a Telescope Worth Buying for Limited Sky Visibility?

  • Phycisists
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Graduate Light propagates faster than the rate of expansion of the universe?

  • iDimension
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Graduate What is the mass and equatorial radius of the Crab Pulsar?

  • zyxwv99
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Graduate What Are the Biggest Questions About the Big Bang and the Universe?

  • Slacker7
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Graduate Where to Begin Coding for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations?

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Undergrad Do two masses gravitate to their centre of mass

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Graduate Fate of outer planets after sun ends its life cycle

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Stunning Summer Vacation Photos: Starry Skies, Thunderstorms, and Perfect Waves

  • Andy Resnick
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Undergrad Water Clouds Tentatively Detected Just 7 Light-Years from Earth

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Graduate Estimating the age of the universe not knowing its size?

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Is Zero the Most Ideal Value on a Number Line?

  • Bobshark
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Undergrad The Pleiades Controversy Erupts Again

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Undergrad Low-eccentricity orbits and the Plane of the Elliptic

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Graduate Chandler wobble: nutation or precession?

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Graduate Mass radius relationship for SIRIUS B

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Graduate Constraints on gravity and dark energy

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Graduate Gravity Waves and Graceful Exit

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