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 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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