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Undergrad Are black holes bound to galactic revolution?

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Undergrad Can u'g'r'i'z' filters be converted to ugriz filters?

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Undergrad What Does Unusual Auroral Activity Mean in Astronomy?

  • CallMeSusan
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Graduate Question combining - black holes & conservation of angular momentum

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Undergrad Discover the Speed of Our Movement in Relation to the Center of the Universe

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Graduate Colliding Black Holes & Einstein's Equations

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Graduate Dark Energy Horizon: Light's Eternal Boundary?

  • wolram
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Undergrad Looking for some help with gravitational lensing and dark matter

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High School Is the Earth-Moon System a Double Planet or Planet and Satellite?

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Graduate Conservation of mass - Stellar equation

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High School Why do 1A Supernovas always explode at the same exact point?

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Graduate Blackhole temeperature and bigbang

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High School Is the moon orbiting the earth at the same speed that earth spins?

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Interstellar travel is impossible, moore's law is finite, the heat dea

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Graduate Why do I never hear that the BB was caused by a collapsing black hole?

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Undergrad If the universe is finite in size, what is at the end of it?

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Graduate Hydrostatic equilibrium of a cylindrical area

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Graduate The Dark Flow & the Existence of Other Universes -New Claims of Har

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Undergrad Mars in Future: What's Ahead 1-3 Billion Years?

  • willstaruss22
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Undergrad A 13.2Billion year old star just 186 Lyrs from earth

  • Tanelorn
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Undergrad Brown Dwarf more massive than stars?

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Graduate Origin of Time: Theory of Big Bang Universe

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Graduate How have supernovae shaped the evolution of heavy elements in the Milky Way?

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This is how Atlantic wire scientific columnists roll

  • DHF
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High School Why wouldn't the Earth gravitate towards the Sun?

  • Kyoma
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Graduate Can the universe be flat, yet finite?

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Graduate State-space model of magnetically suspended ball

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Undergrad Had an, oh, that's how moment - Slingshot manuever

  • thecow99
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Graduate Why do we need the inflaton to expland space-time?

  • fairy._.queen
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Graduate What is Dispersion Measure and How is it Used in Astrophysics?

  • nenyan
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Graduate Re: artificial intelligence tied to universe construct?

  • sgo2387
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Graduate Velocities in space relative to other objects

  • schonovic
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Graduate Cosmic Slow Down: Is Dark Energy Variable?

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Graduate Mass of the Universe: Dark Energy, Inflation & Observations

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Graduate Why isn't there Cosmic Visible Background Radiation from gamma rays?

  • metsophi
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How can I contribute to the field of cosmology?

  • Alektene
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Graduate Unification of Forces: Heating Up Spacetime & 4 Forces

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Graduate Is the Big Bang Still Happening and Could It Lead to a Big Crunch?

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Graduate Did Hubble opine that the universe was expanding?

  • CCWilson
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Graduate Does the Acceleration of the Universe Change?

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Undergrad How many parsecs is it when the redshift z=1

  • nenyan
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Undergrad Naive Understanding of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

  • Niteo
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Undergrad How deep would you have to dig into Mars to reach Earth's gravity?

  • Zaku2
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Graduate What are the unanswered questions in Cosmology?

  • jimjohnson
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Graduate Is the New Lunar Mascon Model the Key to Understanding Moon's Gravity Anomalies?

  • jim mcnamara
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Graduate Idea for cosmo Basics (minimum to understand meaning of expansion)

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Graduate Balloon Analogy with different visualisation

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Undergrad Thinking about going to school for Cosmology/Astonomy.

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High School Floating Objects Affected by the Moon

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Graduate Is the Universe Infinite in Time as Well as Size?

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Graduate Fermi energy approximation for white dwarfs

  • Guffie
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Graduate Does Time Expand in All Directions in the Universe?

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Graduate Astronomical Archives: Finding Distances to Stars

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Undergrad Will Light Travel Further in an Expanding Universe?

  • johne1618
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Undergrad Rings & Tidal Locking: Formation Possibilities

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Graduate Aspiring Theoretical Physicist Seeks Grand Unified Theory Impact

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Undergrad Animating Solar System Evolution from Real Physics Data

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High School Need axial tilt info of earth daily

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Graduate The idea behind a reverse shock

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Graduate Calculating the probability of a Boltzmann Brain

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Graduate Earth-Moon Barycenter and Pro-Retrograde motions

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Graduate Will the Expansion of Space Prevent Overlapping Cosmic Horizons?

  • Alektene
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High School Getting Started with DS9: A Beginner's Guide

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Undergrad After help understanding black drop effect

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High School At which distance can you see Saturn's ring with a naked eye?

  • Tiger Blood
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Graduate What can stellar kinematics tell us about the IMF?

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Graduate Universe geometry article development

  • Mordred
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Undergrad Theory about the end and beginning of the universe.

  • scienceislife
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Graduate Why not an equal amount of matter and antimatter in the universe?

  • Mpcahn
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Graduate Cosmology questions, something that is puzzling me for days

  • CarpathianLord
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Graduate Can Atmosphere exist in Moon Craters?

  • Qshadow
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Undergrad Why do stars appear to have different colors?

  • nicedazed
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Graduate Is It Possible to Destroy a Blackhole?

  • Mordred
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Undergrad What to study to be an astronomer

  • Kateenaclarke
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Graduate Could the Redshift of Light Challenge Our Understanding of the Big Bang?

  • Hamish64
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Graduate Metaphysical description of the cosmos, help with theory?

  • marshallmeyer1
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Graduate Matter in a super condensed state?

  • sorrybadbeat
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Undergrad Universe is speeding up? Are we traveling with it? Dark Energy.

  • PhaLynX
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Graduate Could the universe be a big ripple?

  • Mpcahn
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Graduate Implications of a 2-Dimensional Universe

  • kaikalii
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Graduate What gives a Black Hole its tremendous gravity?

  • DHF
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High School What Caused the Bright Flash on the Moon on March 17, 2013?

  • Astronuc
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Undergrad Debunking the Myth: Why Exposing to Vacuum of Space Won't Make You Explode

  • mrquantum
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High School Static Universe vs Expanding Universe

  • Grove1996
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Undergrad Will the Moon Ever Escape Tidal Locking?

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Graduate Criteria for causal independence (new paper, Planck data)

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Would You Take a One-Way Trip to Mars?

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Graduate Stellar formation / Expansion / Education questions

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High School Facts/Figures on Stars & Galaxies for Year 7 Class

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Graduate Is it possible that nature laws constants changed over time

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Graduate GALAXIES - what was 'extra' so visible matter was presumed missing?

  • stephenn
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Graduate How would you teach quantitative cosmology? What examples to use?

  • marcus
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Undergrad Is It Natural for the World to Have Zero Angular Momentum?

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Graduate Doppler shift, c, observation, recession, spacetime expansion

  • Bojan Keevill
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Dark Matter and Mass: Fact or Fiction?

  • Philosopha
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Graduate A few questions about using power laws

  • sfbsoccer25
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Graduate Is the Universe able to evolve due to fundamental forces?

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Undergrad Why are all the orbits elliptical and not circular?

  • Monsterboy
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Graduate Why aren't black holes the brightest objects in the universe?

  • DARKSYDE
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Graduate Initial Conditions of Astrophysical Simulations in 3D

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