AST 104 Stars and Galaxies
Important Terms for Chapter 15:
- Redshift
- Hubble Law
- Hubble constant (H)
- Megaparsec (Mpc)
- Big Bang
- Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)
- Decoupling
- Top-down scenario
- Bottom-up scenario
- Critical density
- Open universe
- Closed universe
- Flat universe
- Inflation (Inflationary hypothesis)
- Dark matter
- Dark energy
- Big Crunch
- Big Rip
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Prof. Donna Weistrop
University of Nevada, Las Vegas