Electromagnetic Radiation (Lecture 3) The electromagnetic spectrum - from radio through X-ray Infrared medical imaging Infrared views of a horse ('equine thermography') Thermal imaging used in the hunt for the Boston Marathon bomber More views of the word through infrared eyes Star colors in Orion Telescopes and Observatories (Lectures 6 and 7) Mount Wilson Observatory Take a tour of Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin The Gemini 8-meter telescopes (including VR tours) Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Arecibo Observatory A primer on adaptive optics by Laird Close at the University of Arizona The Hubble Space Telescope The Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope Chandra X-ray observatory The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) The Sun (Lectures 8-9) A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Other solar movies from SOHO The Solar Dynamics Observatory - the Sun today 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics: Hans Bethe The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (a.k.a. SNO) More than you ever wanted to know about solar neutrinos 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics: Davis and Koshiba Stellar Classification (Lecture 10) HST picture of Betelgeuse Imaging the surface of Altair Stellar Distances and Motions (Lecture 11) Stellar Distances with Hipparcos 3-D images of the stars The 3-D Universe Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12) The most massive star in the Milky Way? Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Telescopes and Observatories (Lectures 6 and 7) Mount Wilson Observatory Take a tour of Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin The Gemini 8-meter telescopes (including VR tours) Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Arecibo Observatory A primer on adaptive optics by Laird Close at the University of Arizona The Hubble Space Telescope The Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope Chandra X-ray observatory The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) The Sun (Lectures 8-9) A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Other solar movies from SOHO The Solar Dynamics Observatory - the Sun today 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics: Hans Bethe The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (a.k.a. SNO) More than you ever wanted to know about solar neutrinos 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics: Davis and Koshiba Stellar Classification (Lecture 10) HST picture of Betelgeuse Imaging the surface of Altair Stellar Distances and Motions (Lecture 11) Stellar Distances with Hipparcos 3-D images of the stars The 3-D Universe Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12) The most massive star in the Milky Way? Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
The Sun (Lectures 8-9) A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR The Sun: a "virtual" tour The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky Other solar movies from SOHO The Solar Dynamics Observatory - the Sun today 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics: Hans Bethe The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (a.k.a. SNO) More than you ever wanted to know about solar neutrinos 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics: Davis and Koshiba Stellar Classification (Lecture 10) HST picture of Betelgeuse Imaging the surface of Altair Stellar Distances and Motions (Lecture 11) Stellar Distances with Hipparcos 3-D images of the stars The 3-D Universe Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12) The most massive star in the Milky Way? Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Stellar Classification (Lecture 10) HST picture of Betelgeuse Imaging the surface of Altair Stellar Distances and Motions (Lecture 11) Stellar Distances with Hipparcos 3-D images of the stars The 3-D Universe Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12) The most massive star in the Milky Way? Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Stellar Distances and Motions (Lecture 11) Stellar Distances with Hipparcos 3-D images of the stars The 3-D Universe Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12) The most massive star in the Milky Way? Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12) The most massive star in the Milky Way? Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13): The Core of M15 White Dwarfs in M4 Spectacular colors in NGC 1818 Hubble image of red giants and M80 Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14): The Orion Nebula - general overview Mosaic image of the nebula Closeup of inner region of the nebula Images of protostellar disks Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk Star birth and "eggs" in M16 The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris Movies (for real!) of forming stars Movies of protostellar jets, from HST Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula. The disk and planets around Fomalhaut Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15) Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST): The Helix Nebula from the ground The Helix Nebula with HST Closeup view of the knots NGC 7027 NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star More on ISU's role Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17) Supernova 1987a 30 years later Inside the Crab An isolated neutron star?! Indeed - proof that it is! Pulsar Sounds! Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18): A Flyby of the Milky Way Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy The Mutliwavelength Milky Way Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21): HST- Cepheids in M100 An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself! HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23) Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87 The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole? Quasars and their "host" galaxies Do most galaxies have massive black holes? Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23) X-ray gas in galaxy clusters The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens" Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies The 2dF Galaxy Survey The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe The Bullet Cluster Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26) The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page COBE Maps of the background radiation WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE) And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite. Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer The Big Bang Big Bang Nucleosynthesis The Epoch of Recombination The Origin of Structure Open, Closed, or Flat? the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Zoomable Ultra Deep Field A skywalk through the UDF Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28) The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia Extrasolar Planet Search The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix
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