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Graduate What is the Connection Between Quasars and Black Holes?

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Graduate Is the Big Bang a theory or a hypothesis?

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Graduate Is the Universe Truly Expanding? Examining the Paradox of Infinite Expansion

  • Ben.meyer
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Undergrad Binary star revolving arround center of mass

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Undergrad What is the heliotail and how was it discovered by IBEX spacecraft?

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High School Black Hole Destination: Final Stages, Next Steps, Reasons

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Undergrad Mass/Energy Creation and Conservation

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Graduate Nature of Primodial Existance before bigbang

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Undergrad How direction of satellite changes

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Graduate Calculation of Neutron star pressure/mass using 4th order Runge-Kutta

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Undergrad Tidally locked planet's sun still moves?

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Graduate Could a Black Hole Explain the Big Bang & CMB?

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Undergrad How do you find the distance to the galaxies having equal diameter?

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Graduate Relative Motion of Planet to Star: Gm1m2/r^3 - Gm1m2/r^3 = 0

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Graduate Does Parabolic Motion Follow Kepler's Second Law?

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High School The solar system 90 degrees to milky way

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Graduate How Does Entropy Change as the Universe Evolves?

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High School What is Big Bang? Why did it take place?

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Graduate Inverse Fourier Transform Of K-space Image…what is the object space sc

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Stargazing Hubble telescope finds a planet where it rains glass

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Aurora Australis: Reflections from Down Under

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Graduate The 'Huge-LQG' quasar 'structure' does not violate homogeneity

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Undergrad Mass of orbiting body calculations

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High School Why Does a Hole in Paper Show an Eclipse Shadow?

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Cosmos like book/documentary/movie

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Celebration of eid ul fitr in east

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Undergrad Can the earth loose its orbit and regain its orbit again

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Graduate The cosmological Big Rip and a shrinking hubble radius

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Graduate How Do Electromagnetic Waves Interact with Living Organisms?

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High School What Happens to Living Things That Enter a Black Hole?

  • Sudip Pradhan
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High School Stellar or Solar system Astronomy?

  • Jokmal
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Optics Question: How do I clean polar sheets?

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Graduate Is The Big Bang still a Black Hole.

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Graduate Question about Cosmological expansion?

  • MishaFreeman
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Graduate Something I Don't Understand about Black Hole density.

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Undergrad Is the universe finite or infinite?

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Supermoon: Closest of 2013 on June 22-23

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Graduate Paper: Constraints on Dark Matter in the Solar System

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Graduate Spacetime expanding at a rate equal to the speed of light

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Graduate Are Nesting Universes Possible and How Does Gravity Fit In?

  • RickBman
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Graduate Gravitation as curvature of space vs field theory

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Undergrad Center of the galaxy and the great attractor

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Undergrad What evidence supports the big bang theory?

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Graduate Is the Hubble Radius the Actual Radius of Our Universe?

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High School Is what I saw - a meteor that was heading in my direction?

  • Disgusting spy
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Graduate Symmetry violation in the early universe - a book

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Graduate What is the maximum recessive velocity of a galaxy in the observable universe?

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Graduate Effects of a vacuum/ the expansion of the universe is accelerating

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Graduate Black Holes: Real or Not? Magnetic Poles & Jets Explained

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Graduate Early Universe scalar field, inflaton and analogies in electric field

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Graduate Length of ruler in expanding Universe

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Stargazing Question about reflecting telescope design.

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Undergrad 99.6% sure the universe is flat, help me understand

  • MathJakob
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Graduate Quantum entanglement to communicate from inside black holes

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Undergrad Understanding Hubble's Constant: Debunking the Misconception of Its Name

  • MathJakob
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Graduate Acceleration/deceleration of the expanding universe?

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Graduate Ladies and Gentlemen Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System

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Graduate Where' the hoops? 145 e-fold inflation predicted

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Stargazing FOV for galilean vs keplerian telescope

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Graduate Which universities in Australia offer a PhD in Astronomy?

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Graduate Force of Gravity Just Prior to the Big Bang

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Graduate The Philosophy of Cosmology: a new field of study

  • Clayjay
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Graduate Supernova Dimming and Angular Distance Diameter

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Graduate Giant Collision, the Jupiter in the Recent Past

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Graduate An infinite universe can expand?

  • MathJakob
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Stargazing What Kind of Paint Is Used for Radio Telescopes?

  • mishima
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Undergrad How Does Object Collision Work in Space?

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Undergrad Is density of a material affected by gravity? If so

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High School Does Newton's Law of Gravitation Apply in Outer Space?

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Graduate Three privileged directions in the universe

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Graduate Dark matter and dark energy as a relativistic mass?

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Undergrad Why is the Moon's Gravity Uneven?

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Graduate Black holes, Creating Black holes

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Graduate Is time and space truly symmetric in light of Noether's theorem?

  • JayJohn85
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Graduate A couple of questions about The Big Bang Theory

  • bpl1227
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Graduate The vicious circle of standard redshift explanations

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Graduate Gravitational center of the Local SuperCluster

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Graduate What happens to heavy atoms that come into the atmosphere as cosmic

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Graduate What is the DM-Radiation Relation Explained on Page 190 of Dodelson's Book?

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Graduate Gravitational Capture: How Can Binary Stars Form?

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High School Sun moves north as it sets in wunderground video

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High School What is the connection between hurricanes, spiral galaxies, and sunflowers?

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Undergrad Confusion about the accelerating expansion of the universe and Hubble

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Graduate Is Light Speed Consistent in Conformal Time?

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Graduate Is there a time paradox in Big Bang cosmology?

  • glengarry
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High School Answer Moon's Spin: Effects on Earth? | 9yo daughter's Q

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Graduate How can a universe come from nothing?

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Graduate Hippacros star catalogue - astrometric calculations

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Undergrad Did a Giant Impact Start the Moon's Movement?

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High School Black Holes & Stars - What Do We Know?

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Graduate Early Cosmic Inflation: Questions & Answers

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High School Was the Bright Ball with Blue Light I Saw Through My Binoculars Saturn?

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Graduate What Was the Speed of Light During Cosmic Inflation?

  • Gerinski
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Graduate What Are Acoustic Waves and 7 Peaks in CMB Anisotropy?

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Undergrad Delta V as a Function of Altitude

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Graduate Are small extra space-time dimensions represented correctly?

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Graduate What Is the Confusion Surrounding Dark Energy and Its Role in the Universe?

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Graduate How Does the Expansion of Space Affect Electromagnetic Wave Speed?

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Graduate Time 'measurement' (or definition) for early universe

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Graduate How can we tell if the universe is rotating?

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