- Astronomy and Cosmology
The author of this web site focuses on making complex subjects presentable in an easy-to-read comprehensible form utilizing comparisons and graphical aids.
http://www.netlabs.net/hp/tremor/
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Big Bang Cosmology
Here's a series of questions and answers from "Ask the Space Scientist" about the big bang and cosmology.
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry//ask/acosmexp.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Big Bang Cosmology Primer
This site discusses the highlights of the Big Bang theory.
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/IUP/Big_Bang_Primer.html
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- Cosmic Journeys
What powered the Big Bang? What is the Universe made of? What is the nature of space and time? These are the key questions that Cosmic Journeys seeks to answer.
http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Cosmology
This introductory cosmology site offering virtual courses, multimedia activities, and forums
http://www.ikuya.net/cosmology/cgi-bin/index.cgi?mode=normal&lang=e
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Cosmology - Hubble Space Telescope
This site contains images from the Hubble Space Telescope that are related to the age and origin of our universe.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/cosmology.html
(Added: Tue Oct 29 2002)
- Cosmology and What Happened Before the Big Bang
Readers can learn theories about the creation of the universe with this collection of essays by Dr. Sten Odenwald. This web site was developed by Dr. Sten Odenwald, an astrophysicist working with Raytheon ITSS at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/cosm/cosmol.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Creation of a Cosmology - Big Bang Theory
This web site contains a research paper that covers the origins of the universe and life, with a description of the big bang theory.
http://members.tripod.com/~ssscott/BigBang.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Dark Matter
There are many reasons to believe that the universe is full of "dark matter", matter that influences the evolution of the universe gravitationally, but is not seen directly in our present observations.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/darkmatter.html
(Added: Tue Oct 29 2002)
- Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was a man who changed our view of the Universe. In 1929 he showed that galaxies are moving away from us with a speed proportional to their distance. The explanation is simple, but revolutionary: the Universe is expanding.
http://www.netlabs.net/hp/tremor/hubble.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Hubble's Law
In the 1930's, Edwin Hubble discovered that all galaxies have a positive redshift. In other words, all galaxies were receding from the Milky Way.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/ast123/lectures/lec14.html
(Added: Tue Oct 29 2002)
- Hubble's Law
The Hubble constant H is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it may be used to estimate the size and age of the Universe. It indicates the rate at which the universe is expanding.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/hubble_constant.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Making Sense of Modern Cosmology
Cosmologist P. James E. Peebles explains how to make sense of Modern Cosmology in the this Scientific American article.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BCF6F-22B7-1C71-84A9809EC588EF21
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
Ned Wright provides an illustrated introduction to modern observational cosmology and the Big Bang Model.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Stephen Hawking
This PBS site provides a biography of Stephen Hawking. In 1988 Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, explaining the evolution of his thinking about the cosmos for a general audience.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bphawk.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- Stephen Hawking's Web Page
Everything you could ever want to know about the cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- String Theory
String theory is at this moment the most promising candidate theory for a unified description of the fundamental particles and forces in nature including gravity.
http://turing.wins.uva.nl/~rhd/string_theory.html
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- Superstring Theory
Superstring theory resolves the most enigmatic problem of twentieth century theoretical physics: the mathematical incompatibility of the foundational pillars of quantum mechanics and the General Theory of Relativity.
http://www.superstringtheory.com/
(Added: Sat Oct 26 2002)
- The Official String Theory Web Site
Take a tour through the chain of physical events that cosmologists believe occurred while the expanding Universe we observe today was very small and very young.
http://superstringtheory.com/cosmo/
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- The Physical Universe
This chapter provides an overview of our current understanding of the nature of the physical Universe. This site considers the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe, its present expansion and past evolution (the history of the `Hot Big Bang'), and its possible futures. This is the larger environment in which we exist.
http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~webpages/ellis/cos5.html#sec5_ref
(Added: Tue Oct 29 2002)
- Universe: Cosmology 101
This web page provides an introduction to cosmology. Cosmology is the scientific study of the large scale properties of the Universe as a whole.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- What are the Origin and Destiny of Our Universe?
NASA’s “Imagine the Universe” series of educational experiences offers an extensive, interactive tutorial on modern theory and Big Bang cosmology.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/mysteries_l1/origin_destiny.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
- What is Theoretical Cosmology?
This sie offers an introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background, galaxy clusters, large scale structures, gravitational lensing, and other factors.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~jcohn/tcosmo.html
(Added: Fri Oct 25 2002)
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