notMichaelJackson

Does anyone know of any cosmology websites that explain the Big Bang, star formation, and the formation of the earth? I don't want anything that might be used in a 5th grade science class (unless that's all you've got), but I don't want anything I need to take 12 astronomy classes to understand.

Thank you.

Shadowy Man

You should start here at <a href="http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm" target="_blank">Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial</a>.

Dr.GH

Here are some I like:

<a href="http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html" target="_blank">http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html</a>

<a href="http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/index.html" target="_blank">http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/index.html</a>

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp27bi.html" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp27bi.html</a>

<a href="http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/stellardeath_intro.html" target="_blank">http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/stellardeath_intro.html</a>

Added :

some of the links above seem to be down at the momnet. Here are a few more:

Planet formation
<a href="http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html" target="_blank">http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/index.html</a>

<a href="http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/edf/araa/node1.html" target="_blank">http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/edf/araa/node1.html</a>

Star formation
<a href="http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/sform.html" target="_blank">http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/Outreach/Edu/sform.html</a>

<a href="http://www.maa.mhn.de/Scholar/star_evol.html#INDEXA1.1" target="_blank">http://www.maa.mhn.de/Scholar/star_evol.html#INDEXA1.1</a>

And some links to creationist arguments debunked:

<a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/supernova/" target="_blank">http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/supernova/</a>

<a href="http://www.tim-thompson.com/young-earth2.html" target="_blank">http://www.tim-thompson.com/young-earth2.html</a>

[ December 24, 2002: Message edited by: Dr.GH ]</p>