ProfRob

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Why is the discovery of merging neutron stars important?

Oct 16, 2017

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How can there be 1,000 stellar ancestors before our Sun?

Jun 21, 2016

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Would we have more than 8 minutes of light, if the Sun "went out"?

Sep 28, 2019

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Could the dinosaurs have seen the asteroid that killed them?

Jan 31, 2018

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What happens to the 99.9 % of the sun-rays that do not fall on any planets or any other celestial body?

Aug 20, 2016

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What are Kepler's laws (as he wrote them)?

Oct 17, 2018

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Multi-messenger astronomy: what is the potential of simultaneous detection of gravitational waves and neutrinos from a supernova?

Oct 2, 2016

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Why hasn't VLBI been used to try and image giant exoplanets?

Feb 13

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What are the challenges in finding Earth-like planets via the radial velocity method?

Feb 1, 2021

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If the Sun got larger, but maintained its luminosity, would the Earth get hotter or colder?

Dec 20, 2015

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Is there a maximum size for a black hole?

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Gravitational waves

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Do astronomical datasets exist that receive duplicates or are there multiple datasets that contain the same entities (stars)?

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In layman's terms, why does the cold C-N-O process end in Carbon?

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