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An introduction to exoplanets
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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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