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Undergrad The Pleiades Controversy Erupts Again
- CygnusX-1
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Undergrad Low-eccentricity orbits and the Plane of the Elliptic
- GofG
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Graduate Chandler wobble: nutation or precession?
- stroustroup
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Graduate Mass radius relationship for SIRIUS B
- cooper607
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Graduate Constraints on gravity and dark energy
- Chronos
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Graduate Gravity Waves and Graceful Exit
- enorbet
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Undergrad Resources for star evolution data and chemical composition
- nick1o2
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High School Measuring the current Longitude and Latitude of your current position
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Universe Expansion: Is Merging Possible?
- starligh98
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Graduate Misalignment of angular momentum of stars (simulation)
- shadi612
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Graduate Could quantum foam at Planck scales create a universe-destroying bubble?
- djamie
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Graduate What happens to the gravitational energy of a cooling brown dwarf galaxy?
- wolram
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Graduate Do photons' gravitational effects account for dark matter and dark energy?
- backenvelope
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Graduate How are solar particle events predicted? And related to flares/CMEs?
- martiandawn
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Graduate Does the zero-energy universe account for electrical potential energy?
- DiracPool
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Undergrad Map or a Listing of All the Constellation Boundaries in Right Ascensio
- Philosophaie
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Graduate How many dimensions are there to space time?
- Cyber Space
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Undergrad Expanding universe, big bang question
- deadcat
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Graduate Why does a photon lose energy to cosmic redshift without interacting with anything?
- vinven7
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Graduate Is 16.4 GHz a Significant Frequency in Radio Astronomy?
- neilparker62
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Undergrad Calculate Area of Ellipse in Keplerian Orbit
- cptolemy
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Graduate Do age and size calculations for the universe use different parameters?
- Jozsef
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Graduate Expansion by doppler (red) shift
- Mike x10-35
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Graduate How close would a Type Ia supernova need to be to cause extinction via gamma ray burst?
- TimeHorse
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Graduate Does Gravitational Time Dilation Impact Cosmological Age Estimates?
- pforeman
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Graduate What Are the Community's Theories on Dark Matter?
- deadcat
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High School Can Astronomers Predict when a star will explode?
- !Jon Snow!
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Graduate The big crunch effect on entropy and time
- blakej
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Graduate Why does dark energy exist if early expansion was naturally faster?
- exDark
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High School Is it true that if two pieces of metal touch in space
- !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Can Dark Matter Radiate Heat or Form Black Holes?
- !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Dark Matter. Space-Time curvature. Galaxy formation
- Joshuacan
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Undergrad Is a black hole black from all directions?
- !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Can the universe be both infinite AND expanding
- Silvers931
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Undergrad Why do all the planets orbit in the same plane?
- QEDrpf33
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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?
- SatSat
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High School Would Earth leave its orbit immediately if the sun disappeared?
- ketanco
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Undergrad Geocenteric Equatorial Coordinates of the Sun
- cp11
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High School How bright was the Chelyabinsk meteor strike?
- TumblingDice
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Graduate True map of universe from computer simulation with CMB initial state
- divitWasHere
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Undergrad Do we live in a black hole(or an white hole)
- dxkiller
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High School Can a planet have different levels of gravitational pull
- !Jon Snow!
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Graduate Is there radiation colder than the CMBR?
- Lino
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Graduate Making new sense of the three-body problem
- victorvmotti
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Graduate Second moment of mass and energy for a torus using E=mc²
- colinbeaton1
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Graduate Who Determined the Phase and Period of Epicycles in Greek Astronomy?
- puncheex
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Graduate Are There Documented Polarities in Comets' Magnetic Fields?
- bitznbitez
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Graduate Rational ratio of frequencies leads to isolating integral of motion
- victorvmotti
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Undergrad How do we know the orbits of the planets?
- Droctagonopus
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Graduate Why is the CMB Visible if Younger Light Sources Are Not Yet Visible?
- connorp
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Undergrad Creating an equation of a 2D path of an orbit
- beamthegreat
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Undergrad The Most Distant Star in the Milky Way
- CygnusX-1
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Undergrad Calculating perfect full moon observation locations and dates
- anorlunda
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Graduate Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensiona
- Tanelorn
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Graduate Conservation of mass and black holes
- soulmartyr
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Graduate Energy of an Expanding Universe Decreases?
- yogi
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Graduate Dark matter = ligh energy, Dark Energy = also light energy?
- arnesinnema
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Undergrad Can humans reach near-light speed in a lifetime with 5G acceleration limits?
- Keith
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Graduate Unidentified emission line in Galaxy Clusters
- DennisN
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Graduate Direct detection of dark matter?
- Chronos
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Graduate Could the big bang have been a white hole?
- AstronomyX
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Undergrad What is Specific Intensity in Astrophysics?
- shanepitts
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Stargazing Cleaning corrosion from a 300mm telescope mirror
- BOAS
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Stargazing What equations do I need to design a truss tube dobsonian telescope?
- Tyrion101
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Graduate Calculating planetary aspects beyond conjunction with Jean Meeus library
- orbit123
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Graduate Minkowski Space: Can Objects Have Same World Line?
- VaibhavP
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Graduate Does matter reach light speed crossing a black hole's event horizon?
- spacecadet11
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Graduate Calculate Interstellar Rock Orbit in Solar System
- Rohith8193
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Graduate Origin of Dimensions: Evidence of Order or Big Bang Simultaneity?
- DiracPool
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Graduate Solar Gravity: Is There Good Data?
- jkg0
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Graduate Question regarding the universes origin
- Silvers931
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Undergrad Why does'nt SUN burst like a baloon and collapse?
- gianeshwar
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Graduate Infinite universe but finite beginning?
- MathiasArendru
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Graduate Gravitational effect of virtual particles
- trendal
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High School Scale of the universe if a star was a grain of sand
- pelooyen
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Graduate Can black hole entropy be observer-dependent?
- enquirealways
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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
- center o bass
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Undergrad Does Aluminum Coating on Telescope Mirrors Turn into Aluminum Oxide?
- anorlunda
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Graduate What happens to the energy when the universe dies out?
- louisbaron
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Undergrad Calculating latitude and longitude at any time
- z.js
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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?
- scientistshaad
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Graduate What is Kepler-70b's surface like?
- Pds3.14
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Undergrad Could our solar system exist 100x bigger?
- louisbaron
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Graduate Could tardigrades survive in Titan's hydrocarbon seas?
- Ontophile
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Graduate Does cosmic inflation affect the time dimension if it only expands space?
- Mayank_Jha
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Graduate Would artificial gravity work on a long-duration Mars mission?
- Paul Wilson
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Undergrad Any dates/venues of lectures in the UK?
- goldsax
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Graduate Black Holes in the center of galaxies
- marmstrong941
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Undergrad What are some recommended books on white dwarf stars?
- clumps tim
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Graduate Atmospheric Transmittance Venus?
- Nostalgia00
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Graduate How do they define luminosity function in astrophysics?
- clumps tim
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Graduate What is the Lorentz transformation
- Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate All About the Einstein Field Equations
- Greg Bernhardt
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Graduate What is the Mass–energy equivalence
- Greg Bernhardt
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High School What are Trojan Asteroids and How are They Named?
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Synodic Period: Definition & Equation
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad What is a sidereal period?
- Greg Bernhardt
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