Mysteries of Deep Space - History of the Universe Timeline From PBS Online http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/index.html

MAP Home Page 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 microwave background radiation. http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial 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

The Cosmic Microwave Background Extensive CMB information from the University of British Columbia. http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/cmb.html

Sloan Digital Sky Survey A dedicated 2.5 meter telescope which uses sensitive electronic light detectors to systematically map a quarter of the sky, building a catalog of celestial objects, galaxies, and quasars. http://www.sdss.org/

MACHO Project 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 have come to be known as MACHOs, for MAssive Compact Halo Objects. http://wwwmacho.mcmaster.ca/

Great Debates in Astronomy 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 highlight major quests in astronomy and astrophysics in an open forum at the turn of the millennium. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html

Supernova Cosmology Project This Berkeley labs site is based on observation of red shift in stars going supernova. http://panisse.lbl.gov/

MSAM/TopHat High Altitude Scientific Balloons 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 (CMBR). http://topweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Max Tegmark Cosmologist's personal site including discussions of movies, experiments, and data analysis efforts. http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/

Cosmology Companion site to the PBS miniseries. http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/intro/cosmo-frame.html

Structure and Evolution of the Universe NASA's quest to explain the structure of the Universe and forecast our cosmic destiny, explore cycles of matter and energy and to examine the ultimate limits of gravity and energy. http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/home.html

Cosmology A summary of research areas at the University of Kansas, with links to activities and personnel. http://www.phsx.ukans.edu/Cosmology/KUCosmo.html

Conversational Cosmology by Henry E. Kandrup. A college-level textbook for an introductory course in cosmology for nonscientists. Comes in a zipped postscript file. http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~siopis/papers/Book.ps.gz

Galaxy Formation and the Intergalactic Medium This site is dedicated to summarizing the research of Paul Shapiro's cosmology group. Of interest mainly to specialists. http://galileo.as.utexas.edu/research.html

A Brief History of Time quotations from the Stephen W. Hawking book. http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/abhotswh.html

Turning On the Universe Astronomers say the Universe's expansion has been accelerating recently. A new model for repulsive 'dark energy' may help explain the acceleration in a more natural way than other models. From Physical Review Focus. http://focus.aps.org/v5/st8.html

Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background 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 see today. http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html

Cosmology Books and Links Annotated list of books, articles, and websites from a popular course at Sonoma State University. http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologyBooksAndLinks.html

Good Cosmology Sites Links to cosmology resources, and a tutorial by a UCLA professor. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_sites.html