The vast majority of information released in astronomy is through esteemed academic journals in the form of research papers. Though there are many articles out there projected toward the public, anything with depth will be from a scientific journal like those I mentioned in my 5th blog post, as well as many others. In this post we are going to take the non-expanding universe controversy from my previous post and evaluate sources pertaining to it from scientific journals.
The first is Eric Lerner's research paper which discovered the possibility of a non-expanding universe, entitled "UV surface brightness of galaxies from local universe to z~5." This paper was published in Washington D.C. by World Scientific and is targeted almost exclusively to the academic community - freely using terms too complicated for the public and replacing bias with pure observation in order to permeate information through the astronomy community. Throughout the article, there are many cites to previous research done that conflicts with the idea presented in the paper. This paper was easily found using Google and as cited by more public-oriented articles.
The second is Christof Wetterich entitled "Universe Without Expansion" published by Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany. This paper cites the previously described article as well as some newer literature on the subject to build upon the ideas of Lerner. Due to this similarity, "Universe Without Expansion" is also oriented almost strictly for the scientific community for the same reasons, attempting only to spread information around the community.. Also as with the previous, this article was easily obtained through Google.
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