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- Cosmos - Wikipedia
- Multiverse - "The multiverse (or meta-universe, metaverse) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes..." - Wikipedia
- Observable universe - "In Big Bang cosmology, the observable universe consists of the galaxies and other matter that we can in principle observe from Earth in the present day, because light (or other signals) from those objects has had time to reach us since the beginning of the cosmological expansion." - Wikipedia
- The Ancient Red Dot --The Oldest Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered - "A gamma-ray burst known as GRB 090429B for the 29 April 2009 date when it was detected by NASA's Swift satellite has been found to be a candidate for the most distant object in the Universe at an estimated distance of 13.14 billion light years."- The Daily Galaxy - May 26, 2011
- Epic Finding: A Constant of Nature May Vary in Different Parts of the Universe - "... one of the constants of nature appears to be different in different parts of the cosmos, supports the theory that our solar system is an area of the Universe that is "just right" for life..." - The Daily Galaxy - May 12, 2011
- Engines of Creation? New theory Says Some Black Holes May Be Survivors from An Earlier Universe - "... some so-called primordial black holes might have been created in the Big Crunch that came before the Big Bang, which supports the theory that the Big Bang was not a single event..." - The Daily Galaxy - May 11, 2011
- Post Big-Bang 'Weirdness' --Radical New Theory Says the Early Universe had Only 1 Dimension (and that a 4th exists today) - The Daily Galaxy - April 25, 2011
- Large galaxies stopped growing 7 billion years ago - "... the growth of some of the most massive objects stopped 7 billion years ago when the universe was half of its present age." - Astronomy - April 18, 2011
- Cosmic 'Water Fountains' Discovered in Milky Way - "Three new water masers have been discovered in the Milky Way, including what could be one of the fastest ever found -- reaching speeds of up to 350 km per second –- and a rare ‘water fountain,' a special class of ‘masers’..." - The Daily Galaxy - April 18, 2011
- First galaxies were born much earlier than expected - "The newly discovered galaxy indicates that these star cities were forming about 200 million years after the Big Bang." - Astronomy News - April 12, 2011
- Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going - "Astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion so strange they don’t even know what to call it. Although the blowup, discovered with NASA’s Swift satellite on March 28, emits high-energy radiation like a gamma-ray burst would, the event has now lasted for 11 days. Gamma-ray bursts last for an average of about 30 seconds." - Wired Science - April 8, 2011
- Did the Most Massive Galaxies of the Universe Form Billions of Years Earlier than Thought? - "Some of the universe's most massive galaxies may have formed billions of years earlier than current scientific models predict..." - The Daily Galaxy - March 11, 2011
- Do New Discoveries in Elliptical Galaxies Challenge Age of the Universe? - "Early on its life it appears that our Universe was a place of puzzling extremes and seeming contradictions." - The Daily Galaxy - Feb 2, 2011
- Epic Discovery: Our Colossal Universe -"250 Times Bigger than What We See" - "The key to measuring the actual size of the universe is to measure its curvature." - Feb 1, 2011
- Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Discovered - "Astronomers have glimpsed a 'protocluster' of galaxies as they appeared only a billion years after the Big Bang..." - Jan 12, 2011
- Scientist may have found universe’s first star - "Scientists claim the study could provide details of key events which happened in the earliest stages of the universe." - Jan 12, 2011
- Sounds of space - Playlist of 36 videos
- An Introduction to the Science of Cosmology (PBK) (Graduate Series in Astronomy) by Derek Raine (Author), E.G. Thomas (Author) - Free ebook
- Astronomy - Wikibook pdf
Videos
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan - "Full episodes of Carl Sagan's epic cosmology series. The proud saga of how, through the searching of 40,000 generations of our ancestors, we have discovered our place in space and time, and how through the awesomely powerful method of science, we have been able to reconstruct the sweep of cosmic evolution, and to find our own part in it's great story." - Playlist of 85 videos
- Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn - "This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy." - Yale Course by Charles Bailyn - Playlist of 24 videos
- The known universe - "The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang." - Science Magazine - 6:13 min
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"250 Times Bigger than What We See" - very interesting. From that article it looks that we see actually 90 billion light years in diameter (because of space expansion). They also stated that 250 is actually minimum, and can be even never-ending. So 250*90=22.5 trillion at minimum. Wow! I have a very good feeling from it. Now just hope, that it is possible to travel much faster than the speed of light :)
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