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# Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Dr. Judith Croston and Prof. Andrew Norton.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources.

Course image: Volker Springel / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics / Science Photo Library / Universal Images Group

Figure 1: Adapted from ESA – C. Carreau, https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2013/03/Planck_history_of_Universe, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

Figure 2: Adapted from Figure 8, Betoule, M. et al. (2014) ‘Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples’, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cornel University, https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4064, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 3: European Space Agency and the Planck Scientific Collaboration https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Planck/Planck_reveals_an_almost_perfect_Universe, © ESA Standard licence

Figure 5: Adapted from https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/080998/index.html, © NASA/WMAP Science Team

Figure 6: Aghanim. N. et al. (2021) ‘Planck 2018 results VI. Cosmological parameters’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 652, article A6, EDP Sciences, © The European Southern Observatory (ESO).

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