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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?

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

  • cosmosmike
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Graduate Non-anthropic String Theory Landscape and Finite Universes

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Graduate Is the concept of finite mass-energy in the universe outdated?

  • Jobrag
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Graduate Need rebutal for plasma EU theory

  • tanzanos
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Graduate Friedmann's Acceleration Equation

  • johnnnyboy92
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Graduate Could Supermassive Black Holes At The Center Of Galaxies Be Wormholes?

  • stevebd1
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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?

  • saleh
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Graduate DeSitter and AntiDeSitter Universe

  • Quantizer
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Graduate Conservation of Energy in the Universe at Large

  • Islam Hassan
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Graduate Can a Big Rip occur in a flat universe?

  • Islam Hassan
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High School Is Saturn the Night Object in Photos?

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

  • avito009
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Undergrad Can dark energy be a different dark matter?

  • Puchinita5
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Graduate Cosmology for Enthusiasts: Understanding Bicep2 Data

  • Duhoc
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Undergrad Detect planets in solar systems like ours

  • nicoo
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High School How do outer layers rebound off a neutron star?

  • frankhawes
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Graduate A few questions about size and shape

  • iDimension
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Graduate Solar Wind Modulates Lightning - Mechanism Unknown

  • Dotini
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Graduate Baryonic acoustic oscillations and density perturbations

  • jono90one
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Undergrad Inverse square law explains Olbers' paradox?

  • humbleteleskop
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Graduate Must the curvature of space be constant?

  • anorlunda
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Graduate Superconductors and Space: Can Electricity Bend Reality?

  • Jarhead42
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High School How does Andromeda look from just a set of 10x50 binoculars.

  • GKDAIR
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Camelopardalis meteor shower (storm?) May 23/24

  • TumblingDice
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Stargazing Telescope to see up close to nebulas and galaxies

  • Ravi Mandavi
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Nice general collection of high resolution astro images.

  • Spinnor
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Stargazing The What telescope are you using thread

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Can't actually see anything through the eye piece

  • Tanya
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Graduate Bianchi Models and Kantowski-Sachs

  • utku
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Graduate CMB and Absolute Rest: Resolving Contradiction

  • zadignose
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Graduate Finding a constant in an expanding universe

  • utku
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Graduate Why did inflation expand the universe faster than current dark energy expansion?

  • SteveDC
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High School The idea of the universe repeating itself is troubling me

  • DarkFalz
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High School What would gravity be in these 2 conditions

  • HadanIdea
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Graduate Higgs field in the early universe

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Increasing energy scale in an expanding Universe?

  • johne1618
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Graduate Recommendations for astrophysical simulation software.

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Stargazing Remote Telescopes for New or Old Astrophotographers

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Graduate Can Black Holes Have Poles Like Planets?

  • Axefly
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Graduate Faith of Quantum Entanglement once it enters two different black holes

  • lancaster
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Graduate New paper says universe not expanding - should it be taken seriously?

  • superdave
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Graduate The Hawking radiation and information paradox

  • kdlsw
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Undergrad How to calculate absolute magnitude of a stellar body?

  • AotrsCommander
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Graduate Definition of hypersurface orthogonal

  • fairy._.queen
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Graduate Why does the furthest stars seem to be moving away faster than light?

  • Sparer
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Graduate Are Flat, Coplanar Orbits Only Found in Spiral Galaxies?

  • Sastronaut
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Stargazing Can a Simple 80x Telescope Reach Maximum Resolution?

  • jijopaul
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Graduate Why does the CMB show temperature variations much larger than 1 in 100,000?

  • Discman
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Undergrad Apparent Magnitude: Understanding Star X's Brightness

  • devd
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Graduate Do clocks speed up in an expanding Universe?

  • johne1618
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Graduate Why do we need dark matter particles if black holes could explain galactic rotation?

  • tolove
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Graduate Dark matter and weighing galaxies

  • sirchick
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Graduate BOSS questions cosmological constant (undecided)

  • marcus
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Graduate Expanding universe - energy/information conservation

  • member 342489
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Graduate Finding the mass of a super-massive Black Hole?

  • MarcL
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Graduate Could dark matter be remnants of matter-antimatter collisions?

  • JHolland2
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Graduate Cosmic Dynamics - Cosmological Constant

  • johnnnyboy92
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Graduate Is Dark Matter Filling the Universe's Voids?

  • liquidspace
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Graduate A question on the meaning of dark energy

  • Tanelorn
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High School Why do I see stars as a point in the sky?

  • oneamp
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Undergrad How to look at stars to go back in time?

  • supermankid
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Graduate Could universe expansion be local space contraction instead?

  • oldGhost1
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Graduate What Evidence Supports Sagittarius A* as a Supermassive Black Hole?

  • EinsteinKreuz
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Undergrad Amount of solar energy per day in a given location

  • ondrejjosef
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High School Are There Many Suns in the Universe? A Debate

  • adjacent
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Graduate Establishing a Mutual Coordinate System for Interstellar Communication

  • anorlunda
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Graduate "Implausibly Large Structure" in the Universe

  • Islam Hassan
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Undergrad Is a black hole colorless rather than black?

  • JimmySersland
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Graduate Does blue-shifted violet light from an approaching star become x-rays?

  • kjamha
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Graduate Could Dark Matter Be A Property of Space?

  • Jkarpin2
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High School Can we walk on Jupiter if it's a gas planet?

  • Zeref
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High School Why does the Sun appear to change color throughout the day?

  • kjamha
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Undergrad How do scientists measure Earth's distance from the sun?

  • wordsworm
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Graduate Hubble's Law and Acceleration: Are Distant Objects Accelerating Away from Us?

  • Mechanic
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Undergrad Why does the speed of light never slow down?

  • Kkangliu
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Graduate Will the Cosmos Expand Forever or Collapse?

  • victorvmotti
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Undergrad What Are the Best Resources for Understanding Star Clusters?

  • sketos
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Graduate Where does new space come from as the universe gets bigger?

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Graduate A couple of questions about singularities

  • twistor
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High School Can a triple star have a planet around it ?

  • vrmuth
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Can Pluto Regain Its Planetary Status by Cleaning Up Its Orbit?

  • Flashbond
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High School How Do Objects Hang in Outer Space?

  • kyphysics
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Graduate Sun can absorb almost 200,000 more Suns?

  • victorvmotti
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Graduate Do heavier elements break down during supernova?

  • Yashbhatt
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Graduate Literature on the beginning of time for an astrophysics background

  • taylrl3
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Undergrad How did the Big Bang create matter from nothing?

  • justcurious
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Graduate Hawking Radiation and the Decay of Black Holes

  • Logician
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Graduate Status of Cosmic Strings and Stringy Inflation

  • twistor
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Graduate Could light explain dark energy?

  • FrodeM
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Graduate Is The Universe A Closed System?

  • FissX
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Stargazing Telescope that can easily be connected to a laptop

  • enorbet
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Graduate A model of galactic star formation

  • manav95
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Graduate Dark energy and the CMB cold spot

  • Chronos
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Graduate The first realistic virtual universe created

  • Greg Bernhardt
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High School App/program that allows you to adjust spectrums of light?

  • questioner1
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Graduate Does Interstellar Gas Affect Atmospheric Seeing in Ground-Based Observations?

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