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- 1st SPOT Cosmology - References to some good cosmological sites on the Web, featuring in-depth coverage of issues like dark matter, black holes and symmetric theory.
1st-spot.freeservers.com/topic_cosmology.html
- A Brief History of Cosmology - A one page review of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
- A Brief History of Time - quotations from the Stephen W. Hawking book.
www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/abhotswh.html
- Amazing Universe - Short introduction to cosmology.
www.netusa1.net/~kazik
- Astronomy and Cosmology - A source for information on astronomy, cosmology, and related topics.
www.netlabs.net/hp/tremor/index.html
- Astronomy Today - Cosmology - Articles on related topics in popular magazine style.
www.astronomytoday.com/cosmology.html
- Cambridge Cosmology Homepage - A site dedicated to cosmology, both basic and advanced, maintained by Cambridge university
www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cos_home.html
- COBE Home Page - The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Instruments, scientific results, related links.
space.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe
- Conversational Cosmology - by Henry E. Kandrup. A college-level textbook for an introductory course in cosmology for nonscientists. Comes in a zipped postscript file.
www.astro.ufl.edu/~siopis/papers/Book.ps.gz
- Cosmology - Companion site to the PBS miniseries.
www.pbs.org/faithandreason/intro/cosmo-frame.html
- Cosmology - A summary of research areas at the University of Kansas, with links to activities and personnel.
www.phsx.ukans.edu/Cosmology/KUCosmo.html
- Cosmology - An extensive overview. Part of the NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial.
rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect20/Preface.html
- Cosmology - A mid-length introduction with links to telescope sales.
www.telescopes-astronomy.com.au/telescopes039.htm
- Cosmology - A collection of links.
www.galacticsurf.com/cosmolGB.htm
- Cosmology Books and Links - Annotated list of books, articles, and websites from a popular course at Sonoma State University.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologyBooksAndLinks.html
- Cosmology made Simple - A brief, non-mathematical introduction to modern cosmology.
www.geocities.com/autotheist/Physics/cosmo.htm
- Cosmology: A Research Briefing - An online book from the National Academy of Sciences. Includes chapters on CMBR, the large scale structure of universe, and the physics of the early universe.
www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/cosmology
- CosmoNet - an "interactive book" focusing on the topics of astronomy, cosmology, and theoretical physics. It also provides a number of unique services including an index of all 88 constellations, several interactive games and quizzes, and extensive information on stars, galaxies, the Big Bang, and other fascinating topics!
www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=27930&url=27930
- Distant Galaxies and Cosmology Models - Article on possible cosmological models.
www.cosmologymodels.com
- Galaxy Formation and the Intergalactic Medium - This site is dedicated to summarizing the research of Paul Shapiro's cosmology group. Of interest mainly to specialists.
galileo.as.utexas.edu/research.html
- Good Cosmology Sites - Links to cosmology resources, and a tutorial by a UCLA professor.
www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_sites.html
- Great Debates in Astronomy - Following in the footsteps of the famous April 1920 'Great Debate' between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, this series of debates among leaders in the astronomical community highlight major quests in astronomy and astrophysics in an open forum at the turn of the millennium.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html
- Hubble Constant - NASA news and research related to the Hubble Constant and cosmology.
www.hubbleconstant.com
- Introduction to Cosmology - A NASA site for the general public featuring a collection of questions and answers on cosmology.
map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/web_site.html
- Introduction to Cosmology - These notes form an introduction to cosmology with special emphasis on large scale structure, the cmb anisotropy and inflation. In some places a basic familiarity with particle physics is assumed, but otherwise no special knowledge is needed.
arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312022
- Introduction to Cosmology Web Site - From the MAP site
map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
- Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background - Basic explanations of key concepts, including the Big Bang, expansion of the universe, and the ripples in the density of the early universe that led to the galaxies and stars we see today.
background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
- MACHO Project Home Page - Our primary aim is to test the hypothesis that a significant fraction of the dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way is made up of objects like brown dwarfs or planets: these objects have come to be known as MACHOs, for MAssive Compact Halo Objects.
wwwmacho.mcmaster.ca
- MAP Home Page - MAP is a MIDEX class mission, selected by NASA in 1996, to probe conditions in the early universe. MAP measures temperature differences ("anisotropy") in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
map.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Max Tegmark - Cosmologist's personal site including discussions of movies, experiments, and data analysis efforts.
www.hep.upenn.edu/~max
- MSAM/TopHat High Altitude Scientific Balloons - A series of scientic experiments flying as balloon payloads in Texas and Antarctica, designed to measure the medium-scale anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).
topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Mysteries of Deep Space - History of the Universe Timeline - From PBS Online
www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/index.html
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial - An illustrated introductory guide to the topic, attempting to summarize modern discoveries on the origin, current state, and future of our Universe.
www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
- NOVA - Runaway Universe - Examine the size, future and fate of our universe as well as the possible existence of others, discover what happens in a supernova explosion, view a map of the universe on a cosmological scale, spin a spiral galaxy on two axes using QuickTime VR, and much more.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe
- Planck Satellite - ESA mission designed to find the three cosmological parameters: the Hubble parameter, the density and the deceleration parameter from variations in the cosmic background radiation.
astro.estec.esa.nl/SA-general/Projects/Planck
- Review of Mistake of Einstein - Cosmologists have used recent data to constrain the type of 'dark energy' that may fill all of space.
focus.aps.org/v4/st6.html
- Revved-Up Universe - Astronomers are convinced that the expansion of the Universe accelerates.
sciencenews.org/20000212/bob1.asp
- Should We Believe in Big Bang? - Science popularization article on the Big Bang theory.
www.freehomepages.com/pgostrov/e1.html
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey - A dedicated 2.5 meter telescope which uses sensitive electronic light detectors to systematically map a quarter of the sky, building a catalog of celestial objects, galaxies, and quasars.
www.sdss.org
- Structure and Evolution of the Universe - NASA's quest to explain the structure of the Universe and forecast our cosmic destiny, explore cycles of matter and energy and to examine the ultimate limits of gravity and energy.
universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/home.html
- Supernova Cosmology Project - This Berkeley labs site is based on observation of red shift in stars going supernova.
panisse.lbl.gov
- The Big Bang (One more time) - A new model of the universe says it repeats itself in an endless cycle. Article from Christian Science Monitor.
csmonitor.com/2002/0509/p11s01-stss.html
- The BOOMERanG project - Cosmic microwave background mapping project. Press releases and downloadable academic papers.
www.physics.ucsb.edu/~boomerang
- The Cosmic Microwave Background - Extensive CMB information from the University of British Columbia.
www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/cmb.html
- The Cosmology - This educational site is designed for people of high school age or older who want to understand the most recent information about cosmology in everyday language.
library.thinkquest.org/28181/cgi-bin/index.cgi?mode=normal&lang=e
- The Origin of Elements - Arno Allan Penzias Nobel Lecture.
www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1978/penzias-lecture.html
- Tufts Institute of Cosmology - The Cosmology group at Tufts University with links to other cosmology sites
cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/xbook.html
- Turning On the Universe - Astronomers say the Universe's expansion has been accelerating recently. A new model for repulsive 'dark energy' may help explain the acceleration in a more natural way than other models. From Physical Review Focus.
focus.aps.org/v5/st8.html
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