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May 25, 2013

How It Began - A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe

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  • 6. Island Universe
  • 7. Cosmic Architecture
  • 8. Nuclear Power
  • 9. The Growth of Galaxies
  • 10. Light and Life

6. Island Universe – Opening Vignette

Chapter Reference Materials

  • APOD – M31 Cepheid
  • Cosmic Hide and Seek
  • Cosmic Times – 1929
  • Cosmic Times – 1929 Edition
  • Cosmological Simulation of Galaxy Formation
  • Curtis – Shapley Great Debate
  • Events of 1923
  • Formation of Late-Type Sprial Galaxies
  • Galaxy Formation – A Clumpy Affair
  • Galaxy Origins – Strobel
  • Heirarchical Origin of Galaxy Morphologies
  • Hierarchical Structure Formation
  • History of Mount Wilson Observatory
  • Hubble and Cosmology
  • Milky Way – Components
  • Milky Way – Gnedin
  • Morphological Classification of Galaxies
  • Simple Experiment Shows How the Universe Was Formed
  • Spiral Structure
  • Spirals – Gronwall
  • Spirals – Whittle
  • The Father of Dark Matter Still Gets No Respect
  • The Realm of the Nebulae – Pogge
  • Tidal Streams in Andromeda Reveal History of Galactic Mergers
  • Vera Rubin and Dark Matter
  • Vera Rubin’s Dark Universe
  • Where Did Today’s Spiral Galaxies Come From?
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