Astronomy 113: Physical Cosmology

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Cosmology Tutorial: Good, fairly conceptual overview of cosmology by Ned Wright, a professor at UCLA who studies the cosmic microwave background.

Cosmology Calculator: You provide the density of the universe and the Hubble Constant, this calculates various interesting quantities. Also courtesy of Ned Wright.

CMB animations: These show the effect of changing various physical parameters on the power spectrum of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. By Max Tegmark, a professor at MIT who studies the CMB.

Galaxy Images: A collection of high-quality images of nearby galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Hubble Heritage: A large collection of beautiful images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

For Your Enrichment

Cosmology Knowledge Base: Essentially an annotated bibliography for cosmology and galaxy formation. Contains an enormous amount of information and references to the original papers.

NASA Extragalactic Database: Search for galaxy data based on the galaxy your interested in, position on the sky, or type of data, among many other things.

Astrophysics Data System: Search essentially all astronomy papers published since ~1900.

Arxiv: Search essentially all astronomy papers published since ~1996. This archive has the advantage that it allows completely free access to the papers.