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Graduate What is the difference between coasting and static cosmology?

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Graduate Is the Boltzmann Brain Paradox a valid explanation for our existence?

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Graduate How Will the Universe End?

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Stargazing Eyepiece for refractor telescope

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Graduate Questions arisen while reading Weinberg's Cosmology

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Undergrad Another perspective of the Drake Equation

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Undergrad Pulsars - Rotating neutron star produces EM radiation?

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Graduate Dark energy and dark matter as curvature effects?

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High School Astro Physics Project Ideas for my National Science Fair

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Graduate Accelerating Galaxies: Cosmology's Unanswered Questions

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Undergrad Could Anything Survive in the Habitable Zone Without a Host Star?

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High School What Do Milankovitch Cycles Reveal About Earth's Orbit?

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Graduate What will be the change in celestial coordinates in 50 years?

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Graduate Positing the Big Bang as a definitive theory .

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Graduate Is Space a Fluidic Medium?

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Graduate What is the 'fabric of the cosmos' and what drives its cosmic loom?

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Graduate The Ostrogradski instability and f(R) theory

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Undergrad Possibilities of Gravitational Pull in Space Travel

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Graduate Why spacetime quantization does not prevent blackhole formation?

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High School How does mercury exist in the Sun's presence.

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High School Is the Earth's Core Solid or Liquid?

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Graduate What Factors Influence the Redshift of Distant Galaxies Beyond Doppler Effects?

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Graduate No big bang, no beginning, and no end?

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Undergrad Changes to day length at solstices vs. equinoxes

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Graduate What sort of atmosphere could a rogue planet have?

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Graduate Is the Big Bang Similar to a Black Hole?

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Graduate Could the Big Bang Be a Result of Black Hole Cycles?

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Voyager Probes: Longevity in the Void of Interstellar Space

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Graduate The expansion of time, probably ad nauseum

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Is Earth the only planet fine-tuned for life?

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Graduate A possible Coasting Universe model vs ΛCDM

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Graduate Homogeneous/Inhomogeneous particle production

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Graduate Ripping apart baryons at the end of the universe creating new particles?

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Graduate Significance of the Huge-LQG for homogeneous universe

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Graduate Quantum gravity in astrophysics?

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Graduate Three-Body orbital simulation reference plane

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Graduate Complete solution of the ΛCDM model problems

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Graduate Question about the universe and a black hole

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Graduate Could this solar system have stable orbits.

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What is elegant about the universe?

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Graduate How Does Hawking Radiation Affect Black Hole Temperature?

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Graduate Virtual particle creation in black holes

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Graduate Questions on Big Bang Singularity

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Undergrad The Effects of Dumping Nuclear Waste into the Sun

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Graduate Question about Heliopause / radio noise

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Graduate Meaning of a Flat, Open, and Closed Universe

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Graduate The ultimate demise of the universe

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Graduate Why Was It Significant to Discover Black Hole Entropy and Temperature?

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Graduate Expansion Rate at the Big Bang: Uncovering the Role of Dark Matter

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High School Which materials would survive at near absolute zero, intact?

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High School Is Earth's Gravity Changing Day to Day?

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Undergrad Is a Matterless Universe Larger than One Filled with Matter?

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High School Question on the history of calculating the orbital of planets

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Graduate How Did Saturn's 2010 Storm Impact Its Atmosphere?

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Graduate What Is the Mathematical Form of Type Ia Supernovae Light Curves?

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Undergrad Old space information, relevant conclusions?

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Graduate What is the latest research on the Cosmic Neutrino Background?

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High School Is it possible to be completely still in space?

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Graduate New blackhole mass measuring method

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Graduate What is the calculational definition of the 'big bang'?

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Graduate How can the Universe be infinite and there be an infinite number of Universes?

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Graduate How is energy density calculated

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Graduate Rise of the Phoenix: DAMA/LIBRA Claims Detection of Dark Matter

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Graduate How big bodies can exist in outer Solar System?

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Graduate GRB Hypothesis for Terrestrial C14 and Be10 Spike

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Undergrad The future of Radio Astronomy (your thoughts)

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Graduate How to prove the stretching of space

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High School Why planets in the solar system lie almost in a plane

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Graduate What is the purpose of heterodyning in radio astronomy?

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Graduate Can Strong Magnetic Fields Push White Dwarfs Beyond the Chandrasekhar Limit?

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Undergrad Estimating the number of galaxies

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Undergrad Theories of the origins of the universe

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Graduate Tips for deriving the friedmann equations

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Graduate What is wrong with my theory about universe expanding.

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Graduate CMB Sphere Size: Distance & Diameter

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Undergrad No moon=no tides no tides=no life Is that entirely correct?

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Graduate What is the value of the cosmic gravitational potential?

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Undergrad How do inflation, and the zero energy flat universe tie into one another?

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Undergrad Conjuction of planets to Earth, it affects our weight?

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Graduate Estimates of galaxy numbers - re Herschel resuts

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Graduate Are Hawking's Equations for Black Hole Energy and Evaporation Time Flawed?

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Graduate What is the current status on MOND

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Graduate Hi there. Just looking at an astophysics journal article in which they

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Graduate Where does the energy vanish to when light is red shifted

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Undergrad A rudementary question on dark matter

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Graduate Chandrasekhar Limit: Neutron Star vs. Black Hole

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Graduate The observable universe, the actual uinverse, and CMB

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Graduate What causes the red-shift observed in distant galaxies?

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High School In essence how does time travel relate to space?

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Graduate How do the tidal forces warming moons theories hold when []

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Graduate Are Cosmic Strings Connected to Other Dimensions and Gravitons?

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Undergrad Light Years: Subjectivity and Distance Measurement

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Graduate Big Bang to Black Holes: Could We Predict It?

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Undergrad Big Bang theory vs. the universe as we know it

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Graduate I cant imagine the expanding universe in my head

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Graduate Is the event horizon of a black hole physical?

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High School Can the Sagittarius and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxies be Seen with the Naked Eye?

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Graduate Could a Variable Speed of Light Theory Challenge the FLRW Metric in Cosmology?

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Graduate Are Black Holes the Ultimate Cleaners of the Universe?

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Undergrad Could an ion engine attached to a satellite be used to stabilize orbit?

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