- A Brief History of Time
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quotations from the Stephen W. Hawking book.
http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/abhotswh.html
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- Cambridge Cosmology Homepage
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A site dedicated to cosmology, both basic and advanced, maintained by Cambridge university
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/cos_home.html
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- COBE
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The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Instruments, scientific results, related links.
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/cobe/
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- Cosmology Made Simple
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A very basic overview of cosmology
http://www.geocities.com/autotheist/Physics/cosmo.htm
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- Astronomy Today - Cosmology
Articles on related topics in popular magazine style.
http://www.astronomytoday.com/cosmology.html
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- Conversational Cosmology
by Henry E. Kandrup. A college-level textbook for an introductory course in cosmology for nonscientists. Comes in a zipped postscript file.
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~siopis/papers/Book.ps.gz
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- Cosmology
Companion site to the PBS mini-series, discussing the challenge to traditional Christian views posed by the scientific understanding of cosmological evolution, and ways in which they might be reconciled.
http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/intro/cosmo-frame.html
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- Cosmology
A summary of research areas at the University of Kansas, with links to activities and personnel.
http://www.phsx.ku.edu/Cosmology/KUCosmo.html
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- Cosmology Books and Links
Annotated list of books, articles, and websites from a popular course at Sonoma State University.
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologyBooksAndLinks.html
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- 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.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/cosmology/
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- CosmoNet
An "interactive book" focusing on the topics of astronomy, cosmology, and theoretical physics. It also provides a number of services including an index of all 88 constellations, several interactive games and quizzes, and extensive information on stars, galaxies, and the Big Bang.
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=27930&url=27930/
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- Distant Galaxies and Cosmology Models
Article on possible cosmological models.
http://www.cosmologymodels.com/
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- 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.
http://galileo.as.utexas.edu/research.html
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- Good Cosmology Sites
Links to cosmology resources, and a tutorial by a UCLA professor.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_sites.html
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- 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.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html
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- Introduction to Cosmology
A NASA site for the general public featuring a collection of questions and answers on cosmology.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
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- 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.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312022
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- 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.
http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
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- LAMBDA - Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) archive of science research. CMB data is an important aspect of research in cosmology.
http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov
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- MACHO Project
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.
http://wwwmacho.mcmaster.ca/
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- Max Tegmark
Cosmologist's personal site including discussions of movies, experiments, and data analysis efforts.
http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/
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- Messier 81 Internal Motions
van Maanen's astrometrically determined internal motions of the spiral nebula Messier 81.
http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/m81mn.htm
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- 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).
http://topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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- Mysteries of Deep Space - History of the Universe Timeline
From PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/index.html
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- 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.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
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