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Undergrad What Are the Key Statistics in the Evolution of Stars Over Billions of Years?

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High School Measuring the current Longitude and Latitude of your current position

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Graduate Universe Expansion: Is Merging Possible?

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Graduate Misalignment of angular momentum of stars (simulation)

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Graduate What happens when matter pops into and out of existence at Planck length scales?

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Graduate What happens to the gravitational energy of a cooling brown dwarf galaxy?

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Graduate Quantum Gravity: Photons, Electromagnetic Radiation & the Universe

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Graduate How are solar particle events predicted? And related to flares/CMEs?

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Graduate Zero-Energy Universe Hypothesis: Questions & Answers

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Undergrad Map or a Listing of All the Constellation Boundaries in Right Ascensio

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Graduate How many dimensions are there to space time?

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Undergrad Expanding universe, big bang question

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Graduate Cosmic Redshift & The Redshifted Photon

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Graduate Is 16.4 GHz a Significant Frequency in Radio Astronomy?

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Undergrad Calculate Area of Ellipse in Keplerian Orbit

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Graduate Are the Parameters for Calculating the Age and Size of the Universe Different?

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Graduate Expansion by doppler (red) shift

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Graduate Could a Rotating Supernova Cause Another O-S Extinction?

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Graduate Does Gravitational Time Dilation Impact Cosmological Age Estimates?

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Graduate What Are the Community's Theories on Dark Matter?

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High School Can Astronomers Predict when a star will explode?

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Graduate The big crunch effect on entropy and time

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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Energy in the Expanding Universe

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High School Is it true that if two pieces of metal touch in space

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Graduate Can Dark Matter Radiate Heat or Form Black Holes?

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Graduate Dark Matter. Space-Time curvature. Galaxy formation

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Undergrad Is a black hole black from all directions?

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Graduate Can the universe be both infinite AND expanding

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Undergrad Why do all the planets orbit in the same plane?

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Graduate As I Was Looking At A Strange Black Hole Image I Wondered

  • Kenton
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Undergrad Can Gas Giants' Atmospheres Ignite Without Oxygen?

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High School How long could life on Earth survive if the sun went out?

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Undergrad Geocenteric Equatorial Coordinates of the Sun

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High School Chelyabinsk Meteor Strike: How Bright Was It?

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Graduate True map of universe from computer simulation with CMB initial state

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Undergrad Do we live in a black hole(or an white hole)

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High School Can a planet have different levels of gravitational pull

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Graduate Is there radiation colder than the CMBR?

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Graduate Making new sense of the three-body problem

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Graduate Answer: Find Second Moment of Mass & Energy for a Taurus w/E=mc2

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Graduate Who Determined the Phase and Period of Epicycles in Greek Astronomy?

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Graduate Are There Documented Polarities in Comets' Magnetic Fields?

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Graduate Rational ratio of frequencies leads to isolating integral of motion

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Undergrad How do we know the orbits of the planets?

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Graduate Why is the CMB Visible if Younger Light Sources Are Not Yet Visible?

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Undergrad Creating an equation of a 2D path of an orbit

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Undergrad The Most Distant Star in the Milky Way

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Undergrad Perfect Full Moons" - Find Date & Place to See Rare Celestial Event

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Graduate Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensiona

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Graduate Conservation of mass and black holes

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Graduate Energy of an Expanding Universe Decreases?

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Graduate Dark matter = ligh energy, Dark Energy = also light energy?

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Undergrad Question about space travel and the human body

  • Keith
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Graduate Unidentified emission line in Galaxy Clusters

  • DennisN
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Graduate Direct detection of dark matter?

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Graduate Is the big bang actually a white hole?

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Undergrad What is Specific Intensity in Astrophysics?

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Stargazing Cleaning a Telescope's Mirror: Tips and Techniques

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Stargazing Designing a Telescope: What Equations Do I Need?

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Graduate Need help finding exact time of planet aspects with Jean Meeus library

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Graduate Minkowski Space: Can Objects Have Same World Line?

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Graduate Black Holes & Infinity(Singularities)

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Graduate Calculate Interstellar Rock Orbit in Solar System

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Graduate Origin of Dimensions: Evidence of Order or Big Bang Simultaneity?

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Graduate Solar Gravity: Is There Good Data?

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Graduate Question regarding the universes origin

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Undergrad Why does'nt SUN burst like a baloon and collapse?

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Graduate Infinite universe but finite beginning?

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Graduate Gravitational effect of virtual particles

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High School Scale of the universe if a star was a grain of sand

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Graduate Can black hole entropy be observer-dependent?

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Graduate How many gravitons are there in the observable universe?

  • jimgraber
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Graduate Variational Principle for Spatially Homogeneous Cosmologies/KK-theory

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Undergrad Does Aluminum Coating on Telescope Mirrors Turn into Aluminum Oxide?

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Graduate What happens to the energy when the universe dies out?

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Undergrad Calculating latitude and longitude at any time

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Did Humans Go to the Moon? A Debate

  • Hepic
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Graduate Could Space Topologies Unify Matter and Energy in a Curved Cylinder Model?

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Graduate What is Kepler-70b's surface like?

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Undergrad Could our solar system exist 100x bigger?

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Graduate Would tardigrades survive on Titan?

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Graduate Does Inflation Theory Exclude the Impact on Temporal Dimension?

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Graduate Calculating Artificial Gravity for a Rotating Space Station

  • Paul Wilson
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Undergrad Any dates/venues of lectures in the UK?

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Graduate Black Holes in the center of galaxies

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Undergrad What are some recommended books on white dwarf stars?

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Graduate Atmospheric Transmittance Venus?

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Graduate How do they define luminosity function in astrophysics?

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Graduate What is the Lorentz transformation

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Graduate All About the Einstein Field Equations

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Graduate What is the Mass–energy equivalence

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High School What are Trojan Asteroids and How are They Named?

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Undergrad Synodic Period: Definition & Equation

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Sidereal Periods: Definition, Equations & Examples

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Graduate What is a Photon Sphere: Definition and Properties

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Undergrad What is the Mathematical Definition of Orbital Eccentricity?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate What is Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Kepler's Laws: Definition & Equations

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Graduate What is Irreducible Mass in Black Hole Physics?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad What is Irradiance? Definition, Equations & Explanation

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