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 high...
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html
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 partic...
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312022
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 se...
http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
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...
http://wwwmacho.mcmaster.ca/
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 micro...
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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 (C...
http://topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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
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 cos...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/
Phantom energy, with negative sum of pressure and energy density, could lead to the universe tearing itself apart in a "Big Rip".
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302506
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.
http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=PLANCK
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