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• - From PBS Online
  
• - Phantom energy, with negative sum of pressure and energy density, could lead to the universe tearing itself apart in a "Big Rip".
  
• - Extensive CMB information from the University of British Columbia.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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 o
  
• - 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.
  
• - Cosmologist's personal site including discussions of movies, experiments, and data analysis efforts.
  
• - Cosmologists have used recent data to constrain the type of 'dark energy' that may fill all of space.
  
• - quotations from the Stephen W. Hawking book.
  
• - Links to cosmology resources, and a tutorial by a UCLA professor.
  
• - A summary of research areas at the University of Kansas, with links to activities and personnel.
  
• - The Cosmology group at Tufts University with links to other cosmology sites
  
• - This Berkeley labs site is based on observation of red shift in stars going supernova.
  
• - A site dedicated to cosmology, both basic and advanced, maintained by Cambridge university
  
• - An illustrated introductory guide to the topic, attempting to summarize modern discoveries on the origin, current state, and future of our Universe.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Astronomers are convinced that the expansion of the Universe accelerates.
  
• - Article on possible cosmological models.
  
• - Articles on related topics in popular magazine style.
  
• - by Henry E. Kandrup. A college-level textbook for an introductory course in cosmology for nonscientists. Comes in a zipped postscript file.
  
• - 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 t
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - van Maanen's astrometrically determined internal motions of the spiral nebula Messier 81.
  
• - A brief, non-mathematical introduction to modern cosmology.
  
• - This site is dedicated to summarizing the research of Paul Shapiro's cosmology group. Of interest mainly to specialists.
  
• - Examines the size, future and fate of the universe as well as the possible existence of others. Also explores what happens in a supernova explosion, a map of the universe on a cosmological scale, and the ability to spin a spiral galaxy on two axes using
  
• - WMAP is a NASA Explorer mission measuring the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky. This map provides answers to fundamental questions about the origins and fate of our universe.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. Instruments, scientific results, related links.
  
• - Cosmic microwave background mapping project. Press releases and downloadable academic papers.
  
• - Arno Allan Penzias Nobel Lecture.
  
• - A new model of the universe says it repeats itself in an endless cycle. Article from Christian Science Monitor.
  
• - Annotated list of books, articles, and websites from a popular course at Sonoma State University.
  
• - 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).
  
• - Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) archive of science research. CMB data is an important aspect of reseach in cosmology.
  
  

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