Can you steer me in the right direction for my graduation project?

I really no nothig about that topic. Suggestion: how has science fiction movie or shows shown the realities of the topic or butchered it?

What is your major? I’d expect that your project should be inline with your major.

Personally, I would be interested in a history report on the second scientific revolution. The majority of the science that is used to describe astrophysics was developed in the mid 19th and early 20th century. One of the coolest examples of this is the confirmation of Einstein’s General Relativity by measuring the bending of starlight around the sun due to the gravitational field.

I think the topic of the actual shape of the universe is very interesting. If I recall correctly this area is called universe topology. I read a book a while back saying it was a torus, and some of the stars and galaxies we could see with a telescope were just duplicates of others because of the way the universe curves back on itself. Maybe look into all the proposed shapes of the universe and compare them, then conclude which you think is most likely.

Or come up with your own shape and say why its most likely!

I would go with either FTL travel or paradoxical reasons pro and con concerning time travel.

Just a hint about writing research papers. The topic actually needs to be quite defined and not broad. If it is too broad you are likely to go all over the place in your writing and be marked down.

agreed with @RedPowerLady. Writing a research paper, especially with a topic as deep as astrophysics, will require a good focus, or you’ll have either a scatterbrained-looking paper or one that’s ridiculously long.

That aside, I’d say looking up any single discovery (or a few related ones) of Newton, Galileo, Einstein, or Tycho Brahe would make a good subject, since you can describe them, and then go on to talk about how the discovery was made and how it changed things.

Or, you can do recent things, such as talk about the search for life on other planets (drake equation, SETI, or harder topics like determination of reflection and emission spectra of distant planets/stars to look for suitable life-bearing planets), or about the discovery of special phenomina like black holes or pulsars.

So, yeah. You’ve got a lot to choose from >.<

I agree with @RedPowerLady. You need to go deep, not wide. Write about the Large Hadron Collider.

Graduation from HS or uni? How long does the paper have to be? Seeing that you are “incredibly interested in astrophysics.” you should be able to pick a topic that is suitable.

I presume that you do not have to do original research in order to do a graduation project in order to graduate ( check your writing for redundancy).

Niels Bohr? The discovery of how to compute absolute vs. relative stellar and galactic distances and magnitudes, variable stars – particularly Delta Cephei, women in astronomy, the discovery of the speed of light, absorbtion and emission energy lines to describe stellar atmosphere…..the universe is your oyster.

PM mattbrowne. He’ll help you.

Is There a Danger to Earth If the Large Hadron Collider Produces Black Holes?

… gets you into ‘black holes’ , the LHC and it’s goals…... and the pseudo controversy created by some as to whether there is a danger from the two…....

you can talk about dark matter and dark energy,you can talk about singularities and what do they imply or you can talk about universe models(models with big bang and big crunch,big bang no big crunch,no big bang no big crunch)etc.

I’d love to help you come up with a topic, but i need more information about what would be appropriate for your level. Are you graduating from high school or college? How long is the paper supposed to be? What kind of research are you expected to do? (do you have to read original journal articles, or are secondary sources acceptable?) What background do you have in astronomy or astrophysics?

@hannahsugs, I’m in high school now. I’m not sure how long it has to be yet, but somewhere between 6–12 pages. I don’t have an educational background in astronomy or astrophysics where I’ve learned in a class or something, but I’ve done a lot of my own willing research on the subject.