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High School Silly Question Re Distance and Time

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Graduate The paradox of Hawking radiation - is matter infinitely compressible?

  • jarekd
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Undergrad How does jupiter's moon get so hot?

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Graduate Question on Gravity, Big Bang, Dark Energy and Black Holes

  • vatzis
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Website For Universe map, and Matter Totals

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Graduate Estimate the number of stars with present-day luminosity function

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High School Is it possible for the earth to come off orbit and crash into the sun?

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Graduate The Observable Universe ve The Universe

  • Nugso
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Undergrad Radiated Energy from the Sun: Is It Diminishing?

  • Jimmy B
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Undergrad New Theory: Moon Formation & Potential Venus Collision

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Graduate Tachyons and black matter/energy

  • fantasio
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Graduate Can a closed universe expand forever?

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Graduate Inflation and Element Formation: Irreconcialble?

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Odd Body in Asteroid Belt with 6 Tails

  • Dotini
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Undergrad Forgotten force: The other great cosmic attractor

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Finding an Astronomer for Your Fictional Galaxy: Tips and Tricks

  • sozme
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Undergrad What Will Happen if Universe Stops Expanding?

  • sozme
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Graduate Seeking thorough derivation of Friedman equations

  • andrewkirk
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Graduate Giant monopoles as a dark matter candidate

  • Chronos
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Graduate Can electric fields/currents be seen on the sun?

  • online365
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Undergrad Unveiling the Universe: Understanding the Composition of Our Cosmos

  • wolram
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Graduate How did time behave while the universe expanded so rapidly?

  • noxic
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Graduate Can neutrinos travel faster than light?

  • Ysara
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Graduate What's on the other side of a black hole?

  • assassinsdoc
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Undergrad Is Big Bang True? Physics and SR/GR

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Graduate What is the current evidence for dark matter?

  • dryogeshd
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Graduate Conceptual problem on black hole singularity

  • assassinsdoc
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Undergrad How Many Universes Exist in the Multiverse?

  • Ahmed_usa
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Graduate What is the estimated mass flow in relativistic jets from black holes?

  • mcjosep
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Undergrad Calculating Mass Lost of Iron Asteroid Hitting Earth

  • dannyod6504
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Graduate Curious inquiry about exotic matter

  • sozme
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Undergrad Why Do Galaxies Spin and What Role Do Black Holes Play?

  • ryanuser
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Graduate Is cosmology truly precise or is it just full of approximations and assumptions?

  • Fizicks1
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Graduate How to Calculate the Lower Limit of the Diameter of an Icy Minor Planet?

  • duder1234
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Undergrad How long do you expect transit to last?

  • duder1234
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Graduate Why wasn't the Big Bang an isotropic explosion?

  • randybryan
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Graduate Pulsar Orbiting another body, doppler shifted pulse rate problem

  • Mechanic403
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Graduate In the future, an Exobyte of astronomical data per day

  • rhody
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Graduate Flywheel inside a spaceship experiment

  • Jeronimus
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Undergrad Achievable orbit from launch location

  • ank_gl
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Graduate Inflationary Cosmologys effects on the strong nuclear force

  • ilikescience94
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Undergrad Aphelion and Perihelion distance calculations

  • ExoP
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Graduate What factors affect the age of the universe?

  • anubodh
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Graduate What Insights Does the LUX Experiment Provide on Dark Matter Detection?

  • bcrowell
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Graduate Which came into existance first: Energy or Mass?

  • jacket
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Graduate LUX Results: Trouble for WIMPs Dark Matter Models?

  • John86
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Graduate Help with Friedman equations and density of energy

  • Helpsearcher
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Graduate Lower Bound On Dark Matter Mass Density

  • embphysics
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Undergrad Temperature in Space: Is -273°C Possible?

  • Jarfi
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Undergrad Designs for a space station with artificial gravity

  • ProdiG
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High School Are galaxy orbiting around something?

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Most Distant Galaxy EVER Discovered

  • bodykey
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Graduate Can We Poke a Hole Through the Fabric of Space?

  • Axefly
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Graduate Understanding double-peaked HI profiles

  • clandarkfire
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Graduate Can Luminosity Give You a Star's Age?

  • chefskitten
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Graduate How fast can a neutron star spin before it becomes asymmetrical?

  • MathJakob
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Graduate What is the equation for the amplitude of scalar perturbations ?

  • phypar
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Graduate Calculating Angular vs Lateral Acceleration of Objects Suspended in Zero Gravity

  • xpoisnp
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Graduate What would happen to an earth sized body of water?

  • emergentsystem
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Graduate What Caused the Small Flash in the New Bang Theory?

  • mephestopheles
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Graduate Why space expansion is limited to scales larger than galaxy clusters?

  • Andrea Panza
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Graduate Neutron stars on collision course.

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Graduate Coronal heating by solar braiding

  • Astronuc
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Graduate How are neuton stars intensly magnetic?

  • Superposed_Cat
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High School Can Astronomy and Cosmology Bridge the Gap Between Creationism and Evolution?

  • Canis Majoris
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Graduate Will light get reflected at edge of space

  • DRBU012
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Graduate How do you think of the Cosmic Event Horizon?

  • marcus
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Graduate Sensors and Cameras for Local Space Analysis

  • bodykey
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Graduate What are the boundary conditions of the universe?

  • Superposed_Cat
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Graduate Is H(hbar)/2c^2 a Possible Fundamental Unit of Mass?

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Undergrad Hubble's Deep Field View in the long long Future

  • PhanthomJay
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Undergrad Simulated astrophysics equations

  • conure
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Graduate Cosmology as quantum, ie. M-theory

  • Milan Nikolic
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Graduate Proper Motion, Radial Velocity

  • ckirmser
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Unfathomable Possibilities of an Infinite Universe

  • howabout1337
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Undergrad Orbits of objects of equal mass

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Graduate Can We Visualize Spatial Direction in Space?

  • USCadam89
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Stargazing How deep can Hubble Telescope see?

  • Herbascious J
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Graduate Novel way for interstellar travel

  • udtsith
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Undergrad Are Galaxies the Same Age if they are the Same Distance From Us?

  • EskWIRED
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Graduate Is the concept of space and time before the Big Bang scientifically irrelevant?

  • Superposed_Cat
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Graduate Can a solid planet become a star?

  • fbs7
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Undergrad What Are the Key Challenges Preventing Us from Occupying Space?

  • bodykey
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Undergrad Can a Gamma Ray Burst create a shadow on Earth from the Sun?

  • tionis
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Graduate Laser Communications in Outer Space

  • bodykey
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Graduate Could the objects in the universe be shrinking?

  • theojohn4
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Graduate Could Black Holes Be Baby Universes Evolving Backwards in Time?

  • fractalzen
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Graduate Origin from Nothing - what does it mean?

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Undergrad IRAF can't deal with .fits files

  • PLuz
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Graduate Empirically testing black holes.

  • MathematicalPhysicist
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Graduate Deceleration Parameter Computation

  • roam
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Graduate Does geometry have any bearing on the fine tuning argument.

  • Redstart
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Graduate Is it Reasonable to Assume our Galaxy is in a Steady State?

  • mmtwwla
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Undergrad Acceleration proportional to what?

  • us40
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Graduate Can you imagine geometry without matter and light?

  • marcus
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Undergrad Gravity and Supernova - My understanding

  • EinsteinII
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Graduate Acceleration of expanding universe question

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Graduate How Does Light Behave Near a Star?

  • bodykey
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Graduate No Boundary Condition Universe: Stephen Hawking

  • us40
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Graduate Light that is directed towards the center of a black hole

  • jaydnul
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