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High School Structure of galaxy and the laws behind it

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High School Earth as a Capacitor: Lightning & Rain

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Graduate Interaction of three black holes

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Undergrad Can Black Holes Be Broken Apart?

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Undergrad Radio Waves from Stars: Investigating the Mysteries

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Undergrad Where Do Electrons Go in the Plasma State of Stars?

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Graduate Is Dark Energy Actually the Pull of Black Holes?

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Graduate Did Matter Exist Before Time? - Hartle-Hawking State

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Graduate Properties of Matter in Vacuum (Space)

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Graduate Gerald Shroeder and the age of the universe

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Graduate Could Black Holes Expand in Negative Dimensions and Create a Negative Universe?

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Did Anyone See Asteroid "Beast" Fly By Earth?

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Graduate Matter vs Anti-Matter: What Survived the Big Bang?

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What Are Some Recommended Astronomy Books for Laypersons?

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Graduate The black Hole Wars - Losing Information in the Hawking Radiation

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Graduate Simple explanation of the lunar highlands problem

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Graduate 2-point correlation functions for curvature perturbations

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High School Give Me Some Perspective: Size of Universe?

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Graduate Space-Time & Matter: Explaining the Difference

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Graduate Mass required for a closed universe.

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Undergrad Astronomers Measure Hubble's Constant at 68 km/s/Mpc | Space.com Study

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High School Unidentified Constellation: Deciphering Star Patterns and Their Meanings

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Undergrad Can Black Holes Increase in Mass?

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Graduate Must (Ve) expansion of the universe be C?

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Graduate Implications of the divisibility of time for the study of the big bang

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Graduate Final State of the universe 10^ googal plex^ googal?

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Simulated Universe: Who or What is the Creator?

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Graduate Closed Universe? Local H0 Measurements & Relativistic Corrections

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Undergrad DECIGO: Launch Date & Funding Status

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Graduate Numerical Facts about the Milky way's halo

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Graduate Inclination of Equatorial North Pole relative to Galactic Equator

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Graduate Gravitational attraction on the cosmic scale?

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Graduate Why does a singularity have to exist?

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Graduate Why Are Statistical Significance Maps Used in Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Studies?

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Graduate Is the Universe's Shape Spherical or Hyperbolic?

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Undergrad Is the CMB a Distorted Image of the Early Universe?

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Graduate If every event is governed by one or more laws

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High School 40,000 years taken for light to reach here?

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Graduate If black holes don't exist then neither does the cosmic horizon?

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Graduate BICEP2 & Penrose: Inflation's Impact on Proving Initial Conditions

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Undergrad What do we exactly mean by space is expanding?

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Graduate Calculating Redshift for Objects in the Universe

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Martians observe Mercury solar transit

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Undergrad Is Space Within Atoms Also Stretched by the Big Bang?

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Stargazing Whats an innovative idea for a nuclear telescope?

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How to identify that light in the sky

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Graduate Can someone explain why we need inflation?

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Graduate What if there is no Dark Matter?

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High School Focal length short and long. Which to choose?

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Graduate Dark matter distribution around black holes.

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Stargazing Celestron Powerseeker 60AZ Telescope

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Tracking the International Space Station

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Graduate Is Saturn's 63rd Moon Being Born?

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Graduate Possible research topics for high redshift galaxies and AGN

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Undergrad Stars Creating Elements Heavier than Iron

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High School Can a body in space form a sphere?

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Graduate A layman with an idea, foolish perhaps

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Undergrad Voids inside atoms and voids in space?

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Undergrad How can Google Sketchup simulate Sun and Earth movement for seasonal changes?

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Graduate Speed of Light Affecting Objects' Appearances?

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High School Sun & Moon Coincidence: A Remarkable Fact

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Graduate Rate of expansion of the universe

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Graduate Is the expansion accelerating or decelerating?

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Graduate How Did Scientists Miscalculate the Distance of UDFj-39546284?

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Undergrad Conics and Beyond: Understanding Trajectories in Multiple Gravitational Fields

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Graduate Traces of Theia Found on The Moon

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What is your favourite episode of Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey?

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High School Discover Mega-Earth: Kepler-10c 17x Heavier Than Earth

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Undergrad Red Shift & Blue Shift: Explained

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Graduate Concordance value of Hubble growth rate (2014)

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Graduate Questions on Hubble's law and Friedmann equation

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Graduate Tidal Acceleration and planetary rotation

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New Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey 2014 TV Series

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Graduate Gamma Ray Burst datasets that consist of distance modulus & redshift

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Graduate What is the connection between Kolmogorov complexity and randomness?

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Undergrad Understanding the Expanding Universe and Its Impact on Earth's Distant Future

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Undergrad If the universe is expanding, how can 2 galaxies collide?

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Graduate Can Space Curve Without Mass or Energy?

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Graduate Information conservation and Big Bang

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Graduate Question concerning density of dark energy

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High School Is the fabric of space displaced by a mass object in it?

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Graduate How Does the Velocity of Distant Stars Relate to the Mass of the Universe?

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Graduate Non-anthropic String Theory Landscape and Finite Universes

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Graduate Five Cepheids Detected on the Other Side of the Galaxy

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Graduate Is the concept of finite mass-energy in the universe outdated?

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Graduate Need rebutal for plasma EU theory

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Graduate Friedmann's Acceleration Equation

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Graduate Could Supermassive Black Holes At The Center Of Galaxies Be Wormholes?

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Graduate How does a nebula form from a neutron star

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Graduate Is Inflation Eternal Into the Past?

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Graduate DeSitter and AntiDeSitter Universe

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Graduate Conservation of Energy in the Universe at Large

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Graduate Big Rip Compatible with Flat Universe?

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High School Is Saturn the Night Object in Photos?

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Graduate Did Electrons Form Before Quarks? Chronology of Universe's Reheating Phase

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Undergrad Can dark energy be a different dark matter?

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Graduate Cosmology for Enthusiasts: Understanding Bicep2 Data

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Undergrad Detect planets in solar systems like ours

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High School What causes a supernova to occur?

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Graduate A few questions about size and shape

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