Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to all the individuals and organizations whose work has contributed to the development of this course.

Special Thanks:
We also thank all content contributors, reviewers, and partners who supported the creation of this learning resource. Their insights and materials have helped make this course more engaging and accessible to a wider audience.

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Image and Media Credits:
The course features third-party images, graphics, and media that have been used with permission or under open licenses. We acknowledge the contributions of the following creators and sources:

  1.  "Sustainable Development Goals," United Nations Development Programme, http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals.html

  2. “Indigenous Australian Astronomy”, Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwHVdH9VIlE 

  3. “African Skies”, Sivuyile Manxoyi reflects on the indigenous astronomy of southern African peoples, https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/EJC-a25d98c84 

  4. “The Universe Through Time”, Stargazing Live https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/stargazinglive/sgl_universe_through_time.pdf

  5. “Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)”, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/09/18/this-is-how-we-know-the-cosmic-microwave-background-comes-from-the-big-bang/ 

  6. “Content of the Universe”, Secrets of the Universe, https://secretsofuniverse.in/blog/dark-matter-dark-energy-illusions 

  7. “Earth’s location in the Universe”, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth%27s_Location_in_the_Universe.jpg 

  8. “Orion Nebula”, European Southern Observatory, https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0421/?lang 

  9. “The globular cluster Omega Centauri”, European Southern Observatory, https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0844a/ 

  10.  “Life cycle of stars”, Chandra X-ray Observatory, https://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_ev/story/index13.html 

  11. “The Sun”, NASA, https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/solar-cycle-25/2025/06/20/strong-flare-erupts-from-sun-5/ 

  12. “Anatomy of the Sun”, European Space Agency (ESA), https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/01/Anatomy_of_the_Sun 

  13. “Life Cycle of the Sun”, NASA/JPL-Caltech, https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-the-sun/en/

  14.  “Meteor, asteroid and comet”, BBC Science Focus, https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/space-rocks 

  15. “Astronomical Units”, Star Walk, https://starwalk.space/en/news/whats-bigger-ld-au-or-light-year 

  16.  “Astronomy throughout the spectrum”, Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), https://www.skao.int/en/resources/what-radio-astronomy 

  17. “Constellations”, International Astronomical Unions Working Group on Star Names (IAU WGSN), https://exopla.net/sternbilder/

  18. “Seasonal Sky Changes”, Time and Date, https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/aboutseasons.html

  19. “Solar and Lunar Eclipses”, ALMANAC, https://www.almanac.com/eclipses

  20. “Map of the Moon”, By Peter Freiman Cmglee Background photograph by Gregory H. Revera - Remake of File:FullMoon2010.jpg Bitmap from File:FullMoon2010.jpg Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14580532

  21. “Sky Map”, Iziko Planetarium and Digital Dome, https://www.iziko.org.za/education/planetarium-and-digital-dome/

  22. “Light Pollution Map”, https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ 

  23. “Five Lighting Principles for Responsible Outdoor Lighting”, DarkSky International, https://darksky.org/resources/guides-and-how-tos/lighting-principles/ 

 

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