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Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
Site maintained by a UCLA astronomy professor, which features an introduction to cosmology (which uses no more than high-school level mathematics), links to resources, a section on "fads and fallacies", and comments on latest developments.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
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Faith and Reason: Cosmology
Companion site to the PBS mini-series "Faith & Reason". The cosmology section discusses 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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Runaway Universe
Companion website for a PBS NOVA program originally broadcast in 2000, which examines the size, future and fate of the universe. Contains background material on mapping the universe, supernovae as standard candles, and a virtual tour of the universe.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/
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Introduction to Cosmology
Lecture notes by David H. Lyth (Lancaster University), with a special emphasis on large scale structure, the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave radiation, and inflation. Presupposes basic knowledge of physics at an undergraduate level, as well as some
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312022
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The Big Bang (One More Time)
Article from Christian Science Monitor about Paul Steinhardt and his work on the "Ekpyrotic Universe", a speculative model which uses concepts of string theory to arrive at a periodically repeating series of big bangs.
http://csmonitor.com/2002/0509/p11s01-stss.html
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Cosmology: A Research Briefing
Online book from the National Academy of Sciences, published in 1995 by the National Research Council's Board on Cosmology as a re-assessment of the cosmological research earlier examined by the Physics Survey Committee. Includes chapters on the cosmic
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9293
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WMAP Introduction to Cosmology
Basic introduction to modern cosmology, aimed at a general audience. This NASA site is part of the outreach efforts for the WMAP space probe, which measures an "Echo of the Big Bang": the cosmic microwave background radiation.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/index.html
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