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High School Realistic space flight simulator iOS

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Graduate Primordial black holes as DM candidates

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High School Stars Rotation | What is Angular Momentum?

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Graduate Would Distant Galaxies Still Exist If Time Were Paused?

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Graduate Can dark matter form planets and dark matter life?

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Graduate Back and forward orbit [around gravitating objects]

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Undergrad Space Elevators -> US Transportation Infrastructure

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Graduate Universe expansion faster than light?

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Undergrad What would a toroidal planet be like?

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Undergrad Why there is so little carbon in Earth crust?

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Graduate Question about the expansion of the universe:

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Graduate Big Bang Origins: "Nothing" of Physics vs. Philosophy

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Undergrad What Causes Elliptical Galaxies to be Elliptical?

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Graduate Planetary Formation Based on Matter Condensation and Accretion

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Undergrad Is the Universe Expanding or Has it Already Expanded?

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Graduate Can torsion avoid the big bang singularity

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Undergrad Universe expansion beyond c at some distant point?

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Undergrad Gravity & Shapes: Ellipse, Parabola, Hyperbola?

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Undergrad Can you reach absolute zero in complete empty space

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Undergrad Redshift & Far Distant Stars: Effects on Temperature

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Undergrad Importance of a standard candle?

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Undergrad Measuring the distance to stars using parallax

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Undergrad Quick question about negative declinations

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Undergrad Maintaining orbit around the moon

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Graduate Perpetual acceleration of the universe expansion?

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Graduate Million Kelvin gas clouds? Really?

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Graduate How Does Gravity Balance Forces Without Mass in a Pre-Big Bang Energy Scenario?

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Graduate Formula for the star density of the milky way?

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Graduate Mechanism for generating the energy in supernova

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High School Has Andromeda Moved Closer in 2.5 Million Years?

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Graduate Why would gravity slow down the Universe's expansion?

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Undergrad No Earth, No Gravity: What Would it Be?

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On which altitude does the heaven turns in black?

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Undergrad How can knowing parallax of a farther object help with finding a nearer object?

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Undergrad Milkyway Black-hole vs Andromeda Collision

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Graduate Quasar Turn On z<1 Quasar Clustering

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Graduate Most logical answer for the universe

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Graduate Flat Universe, dark energy and accelerating expansion

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Graduate Help: Explaining Expanding/Accelerating Universe Without Redshift Fallacy

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Graduate Can the Multiverse Expand Without a Realm to Expand Into?

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High School Astrophysics Prerequisites Question

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Graduate Largest Structure in Universe: 4B Light-Years Long LQG

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Graduate Question about gravity on the large scale.

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Graduate Thought this would be interesting - largest structure in Universe Discovered

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Undergrad Did Astronauts Face Dangerous Radiation During Apollo Missions?

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Graduate Unveiling the Mystery of Dark Matter: A Comprehensive Lecture on DM

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Stargazing Celestron UpClose Porro Series 10-30 x 50 Zoom Binoculars

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Undergrad Is KOI 172.02 the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovered?

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Graduate Is the Local Fluff Causing Warming in Our Solar System?

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Undergrad What is the Solar Constant in the Kuiper Belt?

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Graduate Accelerating Universal Expansion

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Undergrad The lost energy of Cosmic Background Radiation

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Graduate Velocity Dispersion Questions - Shounak

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Graduate How can we reconcile the paradox of seeing the Big Bang?

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Graduate Does an Infinite Universe Challenge the Laws of Thermodynamics?

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Undergrad What is the Role of Earth's Axis in Copernican Astronomy?

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Graduate The significance of the existence of the universe

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Graduate Dwarf Galaxies Orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy unexplained by Dark matter

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Graduate Could pre-big-bang evidence survive the crunch?

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High School Unraveling the Mystery of Sagittarius A and A*

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Graduate Projected Separation and 3D Distance Problem (Code Included)

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Graduate Similarities of negative absolute temperature to dark energy?

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Graduate Role of Strong Force in Neutron Stars

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Graduate What's the Deal with Astrophysical Jets?

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Graduate Relativistic at freeze out? Definition of HDM

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Undergrad Exoplanet Maps: Northern and Southern Hemisphere Locations

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High School Does the Milky Way Orbit Anything? Investigating Our Galaxy's Center

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Graduate Does dark matter act as a medium for sound to go through?

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Undergrad How does Angular Momentum relate to the rapid rotation of Pulsars?

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Undergrad Stars heat up when they lose energy

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Undergrad The equilibrium in the universe ?

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Graduate Exploring Beyond Absolute Zero: Thermodynamics Re-examined

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Undergrad How Does Gravitational Lensing Bend Light in Space?

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Undergrad Black Holes: Mass, Schwarzschild Radius & Size

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Graduate Alpher Bethe Gamow: Factor characterizing the decrease of density with time

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High School The Universe. Orderly, Chaotic, or some of both?

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Undergrad Is it possible at all to go faster in an orbit around the earth?

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Undergrad Calculate Mass of Moon from Earth & Diameter

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Graduate Some questions for want of answers:

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Graduate How do we determine the production of H and He during BBN?

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Graduate Planck Intermediate Results. IX. Detection of the Galactic haze with Planck

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Graduate Distribution of stars by Metallicity and Redshift

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Stargazing Zhumell Z12 vs Meade Light Bridge 10

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Undergrad Which mathematical formulas are used in the search for extraterrestrial planets?

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Graduate SPT-SZ Survey Results: New Neutrino Species Suggested

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Graduate Cannot stand the eternity in cyclic models

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Graduate Can Black Holes Be Used for Faster-Than-Light Travel?

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High School Earth revolves in eliptical path?

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Undergrad Launching an object into OUTER space

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Graduate Mass distribution and gravitational field

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High School Entropy: Definition, Explanation & Meaning

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Graduate Integrating Friedmann Equation of Multi-component universe respect to a and t

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Undergrad How Do You Choose What Scientific Papers to Read?

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Graduate Higher sensitivity CMB mapper (EBEX) launched

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Graduate Can We Determine the Center of the Universe Using Comet Orbits?

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Graduate Question involving space travel and the expansion of the universe

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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of the Universe's Origin

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High School Sun's path in the sky during Equinox if watching from equator?

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Graduate Time Before Big Bang: Stephen Hawking & Other Universes

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