Star Parties

BOOMERanG Project BOOMERanG Project- Homepage for a research project that, in 1998 and 2003, used a balloon-borne telescope to measure minute anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation. Featur… Planck Satellite Planck Satellite- Homepage of an ESA mission due to be launched in late 2008, and designed to make precision measurements of the cosmic background radiation. Includes an image gal… Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background Introduction to the Cosmic Microwave Background- Basic explanations of key concepts related to the cosmic background radiation, including the big bang models of an expanding unive… The Cosmic Microwave Background The Cosmic Microwave Background- Review article by A. W. Jones and A. N. Lasenby (Cambridge University) about the electromagnetic remnants of the big bang phase. Requires undergra… The Cosmic Microwave Background The Cosmic Microwave Background- Information about the cosmic microwave background radiation by Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia). Includes texts for a general audien… BOOMERanG (Caltech) BOOMERanG (Caltech)- One of the homepages of the BOOMERanG project, a balloon-borne millimeter-wave telescope designed to study the anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background r… WMAP Mission homepage WMAP Mission homepage- Homepage of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a NASA satellite launched in 2001. The goal of WMAP are precision measurements of the cosmic microwave… Legacy Archive for Microwave Data Analysis Legacy Archive for Microwave Data Analysis- Contains both original data and descriptions for NASA's past missions to explore the cosmic background radiation, notably about the Cos…