This site offers a variety of Java applets which explore the motion of planets, stars, and galaxies. Each applet comes with background information on the pertinent astrophysics, a technical description of what's being...

This site provides timely access to the results of space exploration. It uses new technology to provide fresh research results to wide audiences. The sites includes electronic books, many recent articles, videos, and...

This site is a collection of lecture notes for a course called the universe of galaxies. These notes discuss the integrated properties, classification, stellar and gaseous content of galxies; galaxies within, gasesous...

This website provides an interactive java applet which allows the user to model galaxy collisions. With this applet the user can study how galaxies collide and merge gravitationally and how the effects of the collision...

CNN provides an article about a group of Australian scientists' findings of a new string of galaxies that could challenge the big bang theory. Astronomer Dr. Paul Francis states: "We are looking back four-fifths of the...