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215	If I sliced the universe in half, would the slice go through a star?
190	Seeing something from only one angle means you have only seen (what?)% of its surface area at most?
110	Why aren't there spherical galaxies?
88	Why doesn't the nuclear fusion in a star make it explode?
85	How can we see planets thousands of light years away but don't know if there are more planets in the solar system?

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+10	Calculating charge density $\rho(r)$ using Gauss law (both forms)
+35	How are we able to observe Fraunhofer lines in a star's spectrum?
+10	What's wrong about Maxwell's equations for a Hall probe?
+10	How would you define electrostatics and magnetostatics starting from Maxwell's equations?

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35	Could (old) LIGO have detected GW150914?
33	Can the Sun capture dark matter gravitationally?
25	Is the existence of electromagnetic standing waves dependent on the observers reference frame?
22	Black hole “no hair” theorem
16	Do the integral forms of Maxwell's Equations have limited applicability because of retardation?

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1k cosmology × 190	623 electromagnetism × 265
1k stars × 148	557 neutron-stars × 88
848 black-holes × 137	535 general-relativity × 96
779 astronomy × 152	524 galaxies × 76

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12	Which gets you first when you are falling into a black hole, the black hole singularity or the cosmic background radiation?
4	What is the analogous effect of cosmological redshift for particles with mass?
4	Physical interpretation of the chemical potential in Bose and Fermionic gas
3	What could break up a neutron star?
3	Conceptual Issue With Radiation Pressure [closed]

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