TIMOTHY F. SLATER

University of Wyoming

ROGER A. FREEDMAN

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Credit is given to the following sources for photos in the Cosmic Connections and Visual Literacy Tasks and on the cover: NASA/SDO/Goddard Space Flight Center; Cosmic Connections and Visual Literacy Tasks: p. 6: Earth: JPL/NASA; Sun: NOAA National Climatic Data Center; starry sky: Space Telescope Science Institute (hubblesite.org); nebula: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team; supernova: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University); Milky Way: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC); galaxy clusters: National Optical Astronomy Observatory; observable universe: 2MASS, IPAC/Caltech, and University of Massachusetts; pp. 98–99: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute; p. 110: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute; p.154: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; p. 158: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; p. 164: NASA/JPL; p. 177: Earth: NASA; all others: NASA/JPL; p. 208: Sun: SOHO (ESA & NASA); stars: NASA and H. Richer (University of British Columbia); p. 291: Sun: SOHO/MDI (ESA & NASA); p. 319: spiral galaxy: NASA/ESA; globular cluster: S. Fakfa and K. Honeycutt, Indiana University/WIYN/NOAO/NSF; p. 343: colliding galaxies #1: Bob and Bill Twardy/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF; colliding galaxies #2: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; colliding galaxies #3: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Z. Wang (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA); colliding galaxies #4: John Dubinski, University of Toronto.

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