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General Education Astronomy Source 
  
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This website provides an extensive set of resources for both traditional and distance-learning undergraduate introductory astronomy courses. These materials cover topics from…
http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/geas/oview/geas.shtml
An Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background 
  
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This web site presents a basic introduction to the cosmic background radiation and cosmology. It includes terms, graphs, and animations to present the key principles and ideas of…
http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/beginners/introduction.html
LAMBDA - Educational Resources 
  
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Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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Student projects designed as supplements to an undergraduate cosmology course are available on the LAMBDA website (Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis). One project…
https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Universe 
  
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The main objective of this project is to introduce the student to modern cosmology. The first part of the website explains the most recent perceptions of the universe and how it is…
http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/basic/universe/
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Hubble Diagram 
  
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This section of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's website provides an excellent explanation of how Astronomers are able to use red-shift to explain the expansion of the universe. An…
http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/advanced/hubble/

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