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ProfRob
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Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem - Ernest Rutherford (but I'm sure he meant women too...)

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If I sliced the universe in half, would the slice go through a star?
Feb 26, 2018
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Seeing something from only one angle means you have only seen (what?)% of its surface area at most?
Aug 7, 2017
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Why aren't there spherical galaxies?
Nov 24, 2014
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Why are protons, rather than electrons, the nucleus in atoms?
Sep 20, 2021
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Why doesn't the nuclear fusion in a star make it explode?
Apr 5, 2020
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How can we see planets thousands of light years away but don't know if there are more planets in the solar system?
Jan 21, 2016
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Why is hydrogen the most abundant element in the Universe?
Jul 20, 2018
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Why are stars white?
Mar 12, 2015
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Do solar systems typically spin in the same direction as their galaxy?
Sep 7, 2015
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Why is the Sun almost perfectly spherical?
Sep 21, 2015
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Why is the discovery of merging neutron stars important?
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How can there be 1,000 stellar ancestors before our Sun?
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Would we have more than 8 minutes of light, if the Sun "went out"?
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Could the dinosaurs have seen the asteroid that killed them?
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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?

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