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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 What is quintessential inflation and why is it considered fine-tuned?
- 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.
- TRB8985
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Stargazing Remote Telescopes for New or Old Astrophotographers
- Drakkith
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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 Question about the CMB and WMAP
- 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 Understanding Dark Matter: A Simple Explanation
- 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 Dark Matter Formation: Exploring Big Bang Theory
- 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 Is the universe really expanding?
- 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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Graduate Doppler Effect on Light: Understanding Blue Shift in Starlight & X-ray Formation
- kjamha
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Graduate Could Dark Matter Be A Property of Space?
- Jkarpin2
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High School Jupiter: Gas Planet? Landing Possibility & Facts
- Zeref
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High School Why does the Sun appear to change color throughout the day?
- kjamha
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Undergrad Measuring Earth's Orbit: Methods and Distortions Explained
- 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?
- CosmicVoyager
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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 The beginning for time for beginners
- taylrl3
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Undergrad From nothing & nowhere to everything.
- 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?
- omthegreat
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Graduate Is Our Universe a Black Hole?
- MattRob
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Graduate Radius of the smallest exoplanet detectable with the transit method
- QuantumX
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Undergrad How do we find the exact temperature of a star/galaxy?
- Yashbhatt
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Graduate How is dark matter distributed in the Milky Way and what effects does it have?
- Lapidus
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May 5, 6 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad Titan vs Earth: Hydrocarbons vs Water - Pros and Cons for Thriving Life Forms
- Terdbergler
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Graduate Dark energy versus cosmological constant
- edpell
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Graduate How could Einstein's theory contradict to the quantum mechanism?
- Kkangliu
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Graduate Inflation and superluminal expansion
- phsopher
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Graduate Conserved charge in FRW expansion
- muppet
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Undergrad Calculating the % hydrogen and % helium
- manav95
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Graduate Cosmological Constant & Fine Tuning for Life
- Jimmy87
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Graduate Number density/average distance relationship question
- QuantumX
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Venus Jupiter and Moon Conjunction HD Timelapse
- Fermifaq
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Undergrad What Are Black Bodies & Why Are Stars Considered Them?
- eyad-996
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Graduate Something or nothing, which is more supported?
- iDimension
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Graduate How is the scale factor related to redshift in the FRW model?
- ChrisVer
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Graduate Do contracting objects show red shift?
- Yashbhatt
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Undergrad The Meaning of 'Proportion' in Richard Feynman's Views on the Universe
- Nugso
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Graduate Understanding Black Holes: Questions, Equations, and Theories
- MathJakob
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Graduate First Hyper Velocity Star Cluster Observed
- D English
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Stargazing Expert Astrophotography Tips & Discussions | Share Your Photos!
- Phobos
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