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
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