New Ideas in Astronomy and Cosmology

Martin Buoncristiani

University of the Third Age, Emerald, Victoria

Autumn 2012

Presentations
Session 1	Session 2
Session 3	Session 4
Session 5	Session 6

Presentation to Mt. Burnett Observatory:

How Particle Physics Sheds Light on Cosmology

or “Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be”

Reference Material

Perspective: a comparison of the sizes of our planet and various stars

Planets 1

Planets 2

Sun & Planets

Sun & Arcturus

Sun & Antares

Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics – 2010 to 2020

National Research Council, USA

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12951.html

Decadal Plan for Astronomy of the Australian Academy of Science 2006 to 2015

National Committee for Astronomy of the Australian Academy of Science

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/nca//DecadalPlan_web.pdf

Link to Monash Center for Astrophysics

http://moca.monash.edu/

The Powers of Ten video narrated by Phillip Morrison:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EamesOffice

This is the home page of the Wilson Microwave Anisotropy Probe WMAP:

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/

This is the home page of the Hubble Space Telescope:

http://hubblesite.org/

You can download a very good tutorial on Cosmology from the WMAP site:

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/cosmology/cosmology.html

Autumn, 2011

Slides	Images	Videos
Session 1	Hubble Deep Space (1,435 KB)	WMAP Video (2,257 KB)
Session 2		Harmonices Mundi(17,797 KB)
Session3		Simultaneity (10,788 KB)
Session 4		Inertia Demo (6,427 KB)
Session 5