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 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/

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