ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY LINKS

General Astronomy & Cosmology Links

Cosmology - A Research Briefing by the National Research Council
Early Cosmology Tutorial
Modern Cosmology Tutorial
Life in the Universe Website
GIF Images of Galaxies
GIF Images of Stars
Astronomy Magazine Online
AstroWeb
Comet Hale-Bopp
Hubble Space Telescope and Messier Objects
Hubble Space Telescope Links Page
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Planetary Image Finders
Sky Online (Sky & Telescope)
Space Movie Archive
NASA HomePage
General Astronomy Information on the Web

Links to pages related to the PBS
Stephen Hawking's Universe series:

Episode 1 "Seeing is Believing":

Galileo: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
Newton: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html
Einstein: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html
Hubble: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hubble.html

Episode 2 "The Big Bang":

MAP Introduction to CosmologyPage: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/web_site.html
Cosmology and the Big Bang: http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/guidry/violence/cosmology.html

Episode 3 "Cosmic Alchemy":

WebElements:http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/chem/web-elements/web-elements-home.html
What is the Periodic Law?: http://edie/cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/periodic.html
A Little Nut: http://www.xmission.com/~dparker/nucleus.html
The Day the Universe Went All Funny: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/papers/relativity.html

Episode 4 "On the Dark Side":

A Primer on Dark Matter: http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/guidry/violence/darkmatter.html
Cosmic Hide and Seek: http://www.gti.net/cmmiller/drkmttr.html

Episode 5 "Black Holes and Beyond":

What Feeds the Monster?: http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/ph123/qso.html
Hubble Surveys the "Home" of Quasars: http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/quasars.html
Beyond the Event Horizon: An Introduction to Black Holes: http://bradley.bradley.edu/~dware/blkhole.html

Episode 6 "An Answer to Everything":

Measurement in Quantum Mechanics FAQ: http://www.mtnmath.com/faq/meas-qm.html
Beyond the Big Bang: http://www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/anthol/beyondbb.html
Mathematical Breakthroughs Establish God's Extra-Dimensional Might: http://www.surf.com/~westley/4q95faf/4q95dmsn.html
Superstring Theory: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/GraduateAdmissions/greene/greene/html