Acknowledgements
This free course was written by Carole Haswell, Flora Rees and Joanna Barstow, with contributions from Amanda Smith. It was first published in May 2019.
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Course image: Dana Berry / Skyworks Digital / CfA
Week 1
Figures 1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 15, 17: NASA
Figure 3: SDO/NASA/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Figure 4: The Science Education Resource Centre (SERC); https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-sa/ 3.0/
Figure 5: Andonee - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38635547
Figure 6: courtesy of Daniel Herron
Figure 10: NASA, ESA, and M. Brown - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/eris.html . Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia by en:User:Serendipodous. For more information, see the description page, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=2328227
Figure 12: NASA/John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Figure 13: Damian Peach; www.damianpeach.com
Figure 14: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Original file from JPL Photojournal. Additional editing by Kaldari (seams removed, distortion corrected, missing corner extrapolated)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=6983094
Figure 16: ESA/Rosette/NAVCAM/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
Figure 18: taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan-Keenan_spectral_classification.png; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Figures 19, 20: NASA/STScl
Figure 21: Bryan Dickerson; taken from: http://slideplayer.com/slide/4365754/
Figure 22: taken from: www.universetoday.com
Video 1: What is a Planet: ScienceatNASA
Video 2: The Universe in 3D: courtesy of lenny27G
Video 3: Guide to our Galaxy: European Space Agency, ESA
Video 4: TSO Photography
Week 2
Figure 1: Lunar and Planetary Institute
Figure 2: Avi Solomon/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
Figure 3: taken from: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/ 736x/ 07/ 1f/ f5/ 071ff5b724ed7a707bc8f166eabd4088.jpg
Figures 4, 14,16, 17, 20: NASA
Figure 5, 22: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Figure 10: http://www.mstworkbooks.co.za/ natural-sciences/ gr8/ gr8-mm-02.html
Figure 15: European Southern Observatory (ESO); https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figure 18: NASA/ESA
Figure 19: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center); https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figure 21: NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center
Week 3
Figure 1: Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Figures 2 and 3: taken from http://www.astro.wisc.edu/ ~townsend/ resource/ teaching/ diploma/ orbit.jpg
Figure 4: Klaus with K; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en
Figure 5: Dicklyon (Richard F. Lyon);https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Figures 7a, 8, 9, 10, 11: NASA
Figure 7b: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF
Figure 12: European Space Agency, ESA
Video 1: ESO/L. Calçada; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Week 4
Figure 2a: original © NASA, redrawn version © The Open University
Figure 2b: European Space Agency, ESA
Figure 3: taken from: http://media.pennlive.com/ midstate_impact/ photo/ solar-transit-venus-newhjpg-d5e8dddabfcc1221.jpg
Figure 4: Wolfgang Ellsasser; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 3.0
Figure 5: MacNeil Fernanndes; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0
Figure 7: LucasVB;creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Figure 8: GeoGebra;https://www.geogebra.org/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Figure 9: taken from: https://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/ commons/ thumb/ 8/ 8c/ Cone.svg/ 2000px-Cone.svg.png
Figure 10: © unknown
Figure 11: http://www.mathwarehouse.com
Figure 12: taken from https://climatephys.files.wordpress.com/ 2012/ 06/ transit_science.gif
Figure 13: Limaner
Figure 14: NASA
Week 5
Figure 1: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl); https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figures 2a and 4: (c) IOP Publishing
Figure 2b: UCAR. Photo by Carlye Calvin
Figure 5: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wendy Stenzel
Figure 6: Carter Roberts; http://kepler.nasa.gov
Figure 8: Sohl, F.
Video 1: Ethan Kruse
Week 6
Figure 1: Painting by Jon Lomberg, Kepler mission diagram added by NASA
Figure 2: Carole Haswell
Figure 3: IOP Publishing
Figure 4: taken from: https://userscontent2.emaze.com
Figure 5: NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry
Figure 6: taken from: www.weather-climate.org.uk
Figure 7: taken from: http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ news/ 660/ media/ images/ 48092000/ jpg/ _48092623_glacier_painting0510145.jpg
Figure 8: University of Rochester
Figure 9: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
Figure 10: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Figures 11: Dana Berry
Figure 12: ESO/L.Calcada; https:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Week 7
Figure 1: Nigel Sharp (NOAO), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF
Figure 2: taken from: http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/ ~luca/ astr101/ Lectures/ L12.html
Figure 3: NASA/IPAC/Caltech
Figure 4: taken from: http://www.weather-climate.org.uk
Figure 5: taken from: http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/ ~luca/ astr101/ Lectures/ L12.html
Figure 6: Elyar Sedaghati; taken from http://www.sc.eso.org/ ~esedagha/ research.html
Figure 7: European Space Agency (ESA)
Figure 9: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Figure 18: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser
Figure 19: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon
Figure 20: taken from http://www.nature.com
Figure 21: courtesy Space Telescope Science Institute
Figures 22 and 25: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Figure 23: ESO/M. Gillon et al.; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figure 24: ESO/N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Week 8
Figure 1: P.Kervella (CNRS/U.de.Chile/Oberservatoire de Paris/LESIA), NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team(STScl/AURA) NASA SDO
Figures 2, 3: Pale Red Dot
Figure 4: ESO/G.Coleman;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Figure 5: ESO/M. Kornmesser;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Figure 6: NASA/SDO
Figure 7: ESO/spaceengine.org; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figure 8, 13, 14 and 16: NASA; http://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/ documents/ TESS-Litho.pdf
Figure 9: Illustration by Tiago Campante/Peter Devine.
Figure 10: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 3.0/
Figure 11: courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Figures 12, 15 and 18: European Space Agency, ESA
Figure 17: SSTL
Figure 19: Paul Kalas/NASA/ESA
Figure 20: (c) NASA/STScI
Video 1: (c) NASA/Solar Dynamic Observatory
Video 2: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) video; NASA/ESA/CSA
Video 3: NASA/JPL/Caltech
Video 4: Jason Wang (UC Berkeley)/Christian Marois (NRC Herzberg);https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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