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Undergrad Understanding Planetary Spheres: The Role of Gravitational Compression

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Graduate Confused - nucleosynthesis of carbon

  • thatoekhant
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Graduate Good books on superclusters and voids?

  • whirlpoolm51
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Undergrad Do Jupiter Trojans Ever Collide with Other Objects in Their Orbit?

  • Master Wayne
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Graduate About radioactive emission by Jupiter

  • MonkeyKid
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Graduate How Do We Know the Universe's Expansion Is Accelerating?

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Graduate Thermo/hydro visualization of the Cosmos

  • Mordred
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High School Explanation of Equatorial Coordinate System?

  • saidatta123
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Graduate Magnetic sail using radioactive decay

  • udtsith
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Graduate DM Exclusion Plots: Investigating WIMP Mass & Cross Section Relations

  • tryhard
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Undergrad How Can Kepler's Third Law Be Applied to Multi-Object Systems in Visual Python?

  • Suiram
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Undergrad Unveiling the Mysteries of Dark Matter

  • Manraj singh
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High School Term for the path of the subsolar point

  • snoopies622
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Graduate Are We Closer to Finding Elusive Gravitational Waves with New Search Methods?

  • wolram
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Graduate Does the mass of a blackhole remain the same if it is not feeding ?

  • abbott287
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Graduate Meaning Of Permeability Of Free Space

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Undergrad Understanding Gravity & Orbit in Our Solar System

  • clel miller
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Undergrad Nebulae, as seen from the inside

  • Barnak
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Graduate Saturn's north pole hexagon vortex ring

  • Mordred
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Graduate Spatial infinity and matter-energy density

  • TrickyDicky
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Graduate Initiating mechanism of supernovae

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Why does time stop in the event horizon of a blackhole?

  • Manraj singh
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High School How the planets get their spherical shape

  • lalu
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Graduate Help me derive the relativistic equation of motion for the Universe

  • QuantumX
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Lenticular Galaxy - Formula for Probable Location of Stars

  • leto
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Undergrad Trying to start a space club at university, help?

  • jack476
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Undergrad Atmospheric Extinction: How Deep Can 20/15 Vision See?

  • chasrob
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Graduate Astrophysics in a quantum universe

  • rustytxrx
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Undergrad Model to draw an absolute straight line

  • Flailan
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High School Hubble Telescope: What's the Big Flap/Door?

  • clel miller
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Graduate Is the Geometry of the Universe Determined by Its Density?

  • Lapidus
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Undergrad Tesla Coil Thruster: Could it be Possible?

  • jack476
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Graduate M67 Cluster Study: Books & Articles on Dynamics & Open Clusters

  • kr75
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Graduate Difference between micro black hole and primordial black hole

  • dheeraj
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Graduate Good reviews about dark matter candidates?

  • Casco
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Undergrad Slow roll inflation -layperson question

  • a dull boy
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Graduate The expansion of the universe, evidence of a 4th spatial dimension?

  • pondzo
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Undergrad Is it possible for one celestial body to trail another indefinetly?

  • MickN
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High School Can someone explain thoroughly the celestial sphere

  • medwatt
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Undergrad Question about Cosmic Background Radiation

  • kauffdiggity
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Undergrad How can space itself move/expand

  • FireStorm000
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Graduate Will Dark Energy Eventually Dominate Dark Matter in the Expanding Universe?

  • fsujoseph
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Graduate Gravity of Dark Matter - matters?

  • Clayjay
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Graduate Could 5-Dimensional Bubbles Explain the Big Bang?

  • Mr Peanut
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Graduate SN1a under fire as standard candles

  • Chronos
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Undergrad How Many Unique Points Exist in a Region of Space?

  • Chase
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Graduate Could spacetime be a condensate?

  • ryan albery
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Graduate Contracting Confusion: black holes and event horizons

  • Chronos
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Stargazing Which Telescope Under $1400 Offers the Best Planetary and Deep Space Viewing?

  • themadquark
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Undergrad What is the scientifically accepted shape of the universe?

  • Jarfi
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Graduate An infinite universe with shape?

  • Chase
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Undergrad Age of the Universe and time duration

  • curious bishal
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Undergrad Big Bang Expansion: Is There A Centre Of The Universe?

  • GreatScot
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Undergrad No need for complications - Simple clear steps

  • Reptile
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Undergrad Is there red shift evidence for light?

  • bartrask
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High School Red shift of light from galaxies

  • Baggins101
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High School Is the total amount of water on the planet constant?

  • DeepCut
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Graduate Speed of Swallow of a Black Hole

  • Nugso
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Graduate Why Was the Universe Smaller Than a Proton Pre-Big Bang?

  • megacal
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Graduate Does inflation theory have any confirmed predictions?

  • acesuv
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Graduate What's really down in a BH? (a Planck star)

  • marcus
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Graduate Gravity & Virtual Particles: Does it Increase Temperature/Radiation?

  • Jeet
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Graduate Galaxy separation faster than the speed of light

  • photonkid
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Graduate Are Ionospheric Scramjets possible?

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Undergrad What is the equation of the orbits of things in space?

  • MonkeyKid
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Graduate Thermonuclear fusion in accretion disks?

  • soothsayer
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Undergrad Stellar Classification Limits: Temperature & Magnitude

  • ckirmser
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Undergrad When Will the Planets Align Again with Varying Year Lengths?

  • caters
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Graduate Black hole similar to pre universe

  • faddishworm
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Graduate G Magnitude to V magnitude stars in a CCD

  • joseamck
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Supernova in M82: Astrophotographers Wanted

  • Integral
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Graduate Alan Guth thought experiment about negative energy and gravity

  • Herbascious J
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High School Oxygen Needed for Combustion Propulsion in Outer Space

  • tonybaloney41
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Graduate How Does Resonance Affect Satellite Orbits?

  • baxter
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Graduate Can you view objects that moved beyond the event horizon?

  • typical guy
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Graduate Can Superconductors Shield Spacecraft from Cosmic Rays?

  • material
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Graduate What is the temperature of the CMBR?

  • photonkid
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Graduate Is There an ISW Potential During the Matter Dominant Era?

  • Mordred
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Graduate A Potential Test for Quantum Gravity: Analysis of Results from arXiv:1401.6562

  • skydivephil
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Graduate What Is the Next Step in Inflation Theory?

  • sadraj
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Graduate How is the Big Bang producing singularity not a black hole?

  • John Light
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Graduate Usage of doppler effect to measure speed of a galaxy

  • junfan02
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Graduate Why does geopotential not take into account the rotation of the Earth?

  • baxter
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Graduate Is Asymptotic Silence in Loop Quantum Cosmology the End of Time?

  • skydivephil
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High School Where Can I Find a Detailed Ecliptic Monitor for Tracking Solar Terms?

  • snoopies622
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Graduate Theories on Big Bang Expansion & Origin

  • Pohan
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Graduate Is the LCDM Model in Trouble with the BigBOSS Project?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Negative gravitational energy - negative energy gravitons?

  • petergreen
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Graduate Is Spacetime Infinitely Elastic or Does it Have an Elastic Limit?

  • EskWIRED
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Undergrad How we know the universe has a beginning

  • yrreg
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Graduate Is there any evidence for universe still expanding?

  • Lok
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Graduate Much ado about nothing? Local void & LCDM

  • Chronos
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Graduate Gravitational Lensing: Is He Right or Wrong?

  • whirlpoolm51
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Graduate About completeness of the Friedmann equations

  • sergiokapone
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Graduate Is there a reason to believe there is more matter than anti-matter ?

  • xortdsc
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Graduate Could Earth Capture a SECOND Satellite the size of the Moon?

  • Taymith
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Graduate What is standard early inflationary cosmology?

  • Naty1
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Graduate According to the inflation theory

  • imsmooth
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Graduate Big Freeze: Entropy or Dark Energy?

  • No-name
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Graduate How Does the Integral's Limit Affect the Dark Energy Density Equation?

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