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Ancient Web: An Atlas of the Universe Zooms from Nearby Stars to the Edge of Visibility

Richard Powell's Atlas of the Universe uses a sequence of increasingly enormous maps to place the Solar System, Milky Way, nearby galaxies, superclusters, and the visible universe into one understandable scale.

Ancient Web: The Millennium Simulation Put 10 Billion Particles on a 2005 Web Page

The Millennium Simulation Project paired one of the largest cosmology computations of its era with a brutally practical web page full of DivX movies, giant images, PostScript posters, and downloadable galaxy catalogues.

Ancient Web: NASA Still Hosts the POLAR Experiment's CMB Pages

NASA still hosts pages from POLAR, a late-1990s and early-2000s experiment that searched for large-scale polarization in the cosmic microwave background with a ground-based microwave radiometer.

Ancient Web: AstroNuclPhysics Is a One-Man Science Library With Frames, Black Holes and Japanese Gardens

Vojtech Ullmann's AstroNuclPhysics site combines nuclear physics, radiation medicine, relativity, cosmology, electronics, philosophy, music and personal material in a sprawling hand-built reference system.