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Undergrad Could the universe be a giant spinning teacups ride?

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High School Is Kepler 22 Visible from Earth with a Telescope?

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High School Which Layers of the Sun Emit Visible Light, UV, IR, and X-rays?

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Graduate Hawking's new paper - no BH, no EH

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Graduate Proxima Centauri's Unprecedented Passage

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Graduate Temperature of CMBR compared to galaxies in general

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Graduate Anthropic Principle and Infinitely Minute Variations

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High School Northern And Southern Hemisphere Of The Unvierse

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Undergrad Calculating what latitude aurora is visible using KP Index

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Graduate Blackhole radiation v Second Law

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Graduate Mass of the Universe: What's the Real Number?

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Graduate Ratio of positive to negative hydrogen ions in the universe?

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Undergrad Would the outer planets in our solar system survive a supernova event?

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Undergrad Problems understanding how universe has no center.

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Undergrad How do you find the temperature of the boomerang nebula?

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Graduate Infinite universe and energy/matter boundaries

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Undergrad Can Light Alter the Velocity of Asteroids in Space?

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What Makes the Metric System Essential for NASA's Mars Mission?

  • Naty1
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Undergrad What are past values of the Hubble constant and is there an archive for them?

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Graduate Dark Energy as Gravitational Tidal forces?

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Undergrad Relationship between Gravity and Density

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Undergrad Find Historical Critical Density Data

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Graduate A quick question from a layman about folding space time

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Graduate Recent measurements suggest the universe it is flat and infinite

  • Alan McDougal
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Do Stars Have Van Allen Radiation?

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Graduate Understanding the accelerating universe.

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Graduate How can we claim the Universe is 13.7 billion years old?

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Graduate Where Will Our Universe End? An Unanswerable Mystery

  • Emp-Naval
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Graduate Big bang , physical constants , possibilities

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Graduate Is the Universe an Expanding Wavefront?

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Undergrad Why do some nebulae form into stars while others remain diffuse?

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Graduate Alan Guth, Gravitationally repulsive material?

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Graduate What is the radiation pressure on Earth if the sun was replaced by a black hole?

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Undergrad How to Determine Absolute Magnitude

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Graduate How could nothing is finite yet unbounded?

  • Mohd Abdullah
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Graduate Are Primordial Black Holes the Missing Piece in the Dark Matter Puzzle?

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Stargazing Single-dish radio telescope aperture

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Graduate Universe Expanding - Effects On Gravity?

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Graduate Resurrection of the WIMP as DM candidate

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Graduate How can light be older than the universe itself?

  • JiBo
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Graduate Is Time's Arrow Anomaly Explained by Planck's Constant? | Physics Concept"

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Graduate Latest research in multidimensional space.

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Graduate How are elements produced in stars after iron?

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Graduate What speed is required for a 30-year journey to Alpha Centauri?

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Graduate Is Dark Matter Actually Energy with Gravitational Effects?

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Graduate White Holes created our Universe

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Graduate Exponential potential for inflation

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Graduate Why Does Iron Take More Energy to Create Fusion Than Other Elements?

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Graduate What is the nature of information in black holes?

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Undergrad Could gravitational lensing prove the universe to be older?

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Undergrad Saturn-Sized Star Will Live For 12 Trillion Years

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High School Hubble Picture Crushes Your Sense of Scale

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Graduate Matter vs Antimatter: Why Does Universe Have More of the Former?

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Graduate What will be the trajectory of space objects?

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Graduate Comparable size of the observable universe immediately after inflation

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Graduate Regarding graviton and negative energy

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Graduate Early cosmic inflation and the expansion of the universe.

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Undergrad How can we improve asteroid detection to prevent future impacts?

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Graduate Elliptical Orbits and Resonance of Eccentricities

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Graduate What Are the Key Findings of the Pulsar Radio Astronomy Experiment?

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Graduate PSR J0348+0432, Pulsar with white dwarf companion

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Graduate How does one measure the angle of Sun and Mars at different time?

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Graduate Standing in nothingness before the Big Bang

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Undergrad Coronal Mass Ejections - Would we be able to

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Graduate Derivation of the quadrupole moment of gravitational wave

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Graduate Is Self-Adjusting Isotropy a Valid Concept in Gravitational Theory?

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Graduate Restframe U-V vs V-J colour-colour plot

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Graduate Are Most Galaxies on Collision Courses Despite Dark Energy's Influence?

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Undergrad If energy cannot be created or destroyed, what is the universe?

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Graduate Hulse-Taylor pulsar and GR what if orbital velocities were higher?

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Stargazing What Can I See with My Celestron FirstScope?

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Graduate Could the Big Rip Lead to Another Big Bang?

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Graduate Universe is fine tuned for life

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High School Gravitational Force: What Causes It?

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Graduate Could Stereoscopic Imaging with Heliocentric Satellites Revolutionize Astronomy?

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Graduate Neutron Stars vs Atoms: A Comparison

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Undergrad How did Kepler know that the time of Mars' orbit was 687 days ?

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Undergrad Theories on the beginning of the universe before the Big Bang Theory

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Graduate Guth, Kaiser and Nomura versus Ijjas,Steinhardt and Loeb

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Graduate Entanglement of Higgs boson to explain dark energy

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High School Do less bright stars have redder spectrum?

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Graduate How Do We Know the Universe Started from a Single Point?

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Graduate Question about extreemly large black holes.

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Undergrad Forming of our Galaxies or Atmosphere

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Graduate Any books that explain the origin of physics stuff after the Big Bang?

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Graduate Gravitational Attraction, Electromagnetic Radiation and Dark Matter

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Undergrad What happens to meteors after they vaporize?

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Graduate Magnetic confinment of plasma/sustained fusion

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Graduate Would a single black hole form in the big crunch scenario?

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Undergrad All stars in Milky Way equal one square light year?

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High School What Pope wanted Galileo to include in his book

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High School How Does Sunlight Reach the Moon During a Full Moon?

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Undergrad Is Empty Space Truly Void of Energy and Matter?

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Graduate In the beginning there was one force

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Graduate What is the significance of the Eridanus Supervoid in the universe?

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Undergrad Doppler effect vs expansion effect on wavelength

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High School Questions About Things in Orbit and Why They Don't Descend

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Graduate Synchronization of time impossible?

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Undergrad Kepler's 2nd.law and calculation

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Graduate Could an eliptical galaxy exist with an axis of rotation?

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