Thursday, April 23, 2015

Cosmography of the Local Universe

The void



Hannah Devlin, Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe is ... a big hole, The Guardian, 20 April 2015. http://j.mp/1HWw4eK

István Szapudi, Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450.1, 19 April 2015, pg 288-294


The video

Cosmography of the Local Universe
a film by 
Hélène Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois. 

Cosmography of the Local Universe
Helene M. Courtois, Daniel Pomarede, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, Denis Courtois
(Submitted on 1 Jun 2013 (v1), last revised 13 Jun 2013 (this version, v4))


The MIT course 

The Early Universe
Instructor(s) Prof. Alan Guth
MIT Course Number 8.286

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