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Graduate SN 1a Progenitor Classes: Statistical Analysis

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High School Why is our moon exactly half when half?

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Graduate Speed of light (from redshifted galaxies)

  • Myslius
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Graduate Did the Big Bang create gravity and matter?

  • marcmongeon
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Graduate Moon orbiting close to its host planet

  • willstaruss22
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High School Our sun to soon reverse its magnetic field

  • Naty1
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What is the Scale of the Universe?

  • MathJakob
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High School What is the definition of cosmology in a physics context?

  • Clayjay
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Graduate Fate of relict radiation patterns

  • snorkack
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Graduate Castor Binary (6 star hierachy) system, how is it stable?

  • Edward Solomo
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Undergrad How does Jupiter protect Earth from comets and such?

  • jenny_shoars
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Looking for composite picture of Milky-way from outside galaxy

  • jackmell
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Graduate How and how much does is the cosmological red shift affected?

  • LuckyNate
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Undergrad Can Neutrino Detectors Predict Supernovae?

  • Romulo Binuya
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Graduate Higgs-driven cyclic conformal cosmology (Steinhardt Turok Bars)

  • marcus
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Undergrad Understanding Gravity at Long Distances

  • Deepak K Kapur
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Graduate Hydrodynamical description of photons

  • wphysics
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Graduate Suppose space comes into existence

  • keepit
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Graduate The Meissner effect within a galaxy

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Undergrad What methods are used to measure cosmic distances?

  • Romulo Binuya
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Viewing the Northern Lights in Nov/Dec

  • JackMartinelli
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Size of all things in the universe

  • McCartney
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Graduate Is an accelerating universe consistent with the conservation of energy

  • Bobcent
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Graduate Additional Emperical Observations of the Sachs-Wolfe Effect?

  • falcon32
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Graduate Can Colliding Black Holes Solve the Mystery of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts?

  • Digitalism
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Graduate Does captured light increase a black hole's mass?

  • Decimator
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Graduate Is a Dynamic Dark Information Energy Consistent with Planck Data?

  • Chronos
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Graduate Do new objects ever become visible to us for the first time?

  • QuestionMarks
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Undergrad Is Shutting Down the Space Fence Putting Our Satellites at Risk?

  • BobG
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Graduate Could Super Earths have Earth like atmospheres?

  • willstaruss22
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What Makes the Oregon Star Party a Must-Visit for Stargazing Enthusiasts?

  • OmCheeto
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Undergrad How can we 'see' back to the early universe?

  • Graeme M
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Graduate Relativistic Effects of a Black Hole

  • m_robertson
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Graduate Cosmological Redshift Question

  • Drakkith
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Graduate Spatial dimensions of our universe

  • cryptist
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Graduate What Are the Flaws in Personal Theories About the Big Bang and the Multiverse?

  • dilsfunspot
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Graduate If a strong gravitational wave hit Earth would clocks record it?

  • wolram
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Graduate Feynman's New Zealand lecture, Inca astronomy, rule and reason.

  • Spinnor
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Graduate Nuclear Fusion process in the Sun (or generally, any star)

  • Positron137
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Graduate Does Light from Distant Stars Travel Slower than Light from the Sun?

  • cliffes
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Graduate Why the discrepancy between telescopes and big bang?

  • scott22
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Graduate Kilonovas caused by black hole neutron star mergers

  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad Idea about Mars atmospheric loss

  • willstaruss22
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Undergrad How Does Hubble See Distant Galaxies Through Our Own?

  • Yosty22
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Graduate Possible criteria or parameters for planetary collision?

  • Positron137
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High School After Pluto what are new horizons plans?

  • Tyrion101
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Graduate What is the role of dark energy in the potential occurrence of a Big Crunch?

  • Nugso
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Graduate What Is the Gravitational Field Strength Within a Uniform Thin Disk?

  • tade
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Stargazing How far can the best telescope see?

  • siddharth23
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Graduate Where Can I Find References for Galactic and Cosmological Numbers?

  • pellikkan
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Graduate Hawking's Position on Repeating Big Bang

  • David_Baratheon
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Graduate Seriously gritty videojournalism applied to cosmology by Skydive

  • marcus
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Astronomy book listing Ceres as a planet?

  • jenny_shoars
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Undergrad How is the Universe Expanding?

  • Alonzo.nieves
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Graduate How to Generate Initial Conditions for Modeling Galactic Spiral Arms?

  • fab13
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Undergrad Measuring Redshift to Support Accelerating Universe

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Graduate Dark Matter or Modified Gravity ?

  • wilha
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Graduate Can the Many Worlds Theory and Biocentric Theory Co-Exist?

  • JordanSC5
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Graduate Force of Gravity in a 2 Dimensional Universe

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Graduate If universes are being spawned by a mother universe

  • CCWilson
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Graduate Is it certain that CMBR originates from the 5% of ordinary matter?

  • Tanelorn
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Graduate How to calculate mass of closed Universe?

  • johne1618
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Graduate Amount of nuclear power need to propel a shuttle at the speed of light

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High School Are black holes related to the big bang?

  • 1MileCrash
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Graduate What Caused the Pioneer Anomaly?

  • mathman
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Graduate Dark energy acceleration of space effect on red shift

  • Clayjay
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Undergrad Need help to start with Healpix on IDL and Windows 7

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Graduate Inflation Deflated ? the dead of inlation models ?

  • audioloop
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Undergrad JPL News: Centaurs' Origins Revealed with WISE Data

  • jim mcnamara
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Undergrad Can Traveling to Stars Reveal Earth's Past?

  • imageek
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Graduate Dark Energy & Life: Can We Survive?

  • Nugso
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Graduate 'Fast forward' vision when travelling towards a star?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate What Is the Ratio of Baryonic to Dark Matter in the CMB?

  • Philosopha
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Undergrad Where rest of inner solar system in Cassini picture from Saturn?

  • jackmell
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Undergrad Positional Astronomy: Zenith, celestial poles and sidereal time

  • kr75
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Graduate Various varieties of black holes

  • DiracPool
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Graduate Define and measure inhomogenities and anisotropies

  • tom.stoer
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Stargazing B mode detected by South Pole Telescope

  • skydivephil
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Graduate Can We Identify Anti-Matter Galaxies?

  • Aspchizo
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Graduate Second Kepler law for hyperbolas

  • jaumzaum
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Graduate Is the universe eternal and cyclic? Evidence from the CMB

  • petergreen
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Graduate Meissner sees Penrose-type circles in Planck CMB map

  • marcus
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Graduate Is Conformal Cyclic Cosmology a Viable Explanation for the Big Bang?

  • tdecelles
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High School How large a mass would it be if all matter was collected together

  • webboffin
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Graduate Mechanical Energy - Self energy of Universe

  • Philosopha
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Graduate Galaxy rotation curve of higher mass galaxy with same size

  • Philosopha
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Earth from Space: A Fantastic Nova Documentary

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Undergrad YouTube channel Life on Enceladus

  • Astrolekker
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High School Amateur Astronomy - Learn What to Look For in the Sky

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Graduate Is there a centre to the universe

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High School Are Eclipse Glasses Truly Safe?

  • Astrum
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Graduate Learn IRAF for Astrophysics: UofL Student Seeks Examples & Guidance

  • bsleis01
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Graduate Randomness and the life cycle of events of our Universe

  • Tanelorn
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Stargazing Helping my school with a telescope, advice appreciated

  • jim hardy
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Graduate Appropriate statistical test for this situation?

  • Jean Tate
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Graduate Is the Universe spinning on a vast scale?

  • Orion1
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High School Why are there 12 months in a year instead of 365?

  • Phy_enthusiast
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High School Gravity of Earth vs Sun to Moon: Which is Larger?

  • sirwan
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Graduate How Can I Accurately Simulate the Earth-Apophis Encounter on April 13, 2029?

  • Jano L.
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