This document discusses topics in observational cosmology and new observational instruments. It covers how massive stars live and die, type 1a supernovae as standard candles to measure distance, the redshift-distance relation, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the concordance LambdaCDM model, the CMB temperature map, baryon acoustic oscillations, large scale structure of the universe, integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, CMB lensing, and problems with tensions in measurements of H0 and sigma8. It also outlines cosmological surveys like DES, DESI, Pau, and Euclid and describes the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument.