The birth of the galaxies
PPT Slide
Nebulae
The Great Debate
Cosmic distances
Galaxies everywhere
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Deep Field
Age and distance
The expanding universe
Measuring redshifts
Hubble’s Law
The age of the universe
The distribution of the galaxies
Redshift surveys
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
2dFGRS geometry
The 2dF site
2dF on the AAT
Cone diagram: 4-degree wedge
Gravitational instability:hierarchical collapse generates ever larger structures
Simulating structure formation
Forming gravitational caustics
Non-gravitational caustics
The Hubble Volume Simulation
Numerical galaxy formation
Predictions of theory
Observatories for high-z galaxies
High-redshift galaxies were less regular
High-redshift galaxies were smaller
The Hot Big Bang
The uncertainty principle (1927)
Quantum fluctuations and cosmic structure
Observing prehistoric structure
The future: NGST (2007+)
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