An Introduction to Astronomy Our Place in the Universe Lambert E. Murray, Ph.D. Professor of Physics.

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An Introduction to Astronomy Our Place in the Universe Lambert E. Murray, Ph.D. Professor of Physics

The Universe Contains: Stars Galaxies Clusters of Galaxies

Galaxies Come in All Shapes and Sizes

A Galaxy Like Our Own

Approaching Our Galaxy Edge-On

Stars inside the Spiral Arms

Individual Stars are Often Far Apart Our Nearest Neighbor is about 4.5 Light Years Away!

Our Star – The Sun

The Sun’s Family of Planets (Not to Scale)

The Sun’s Family of Planets (To Scale)

Mercury F The planet nearest to our Sun.

Venus Viewed from Space is Always Covered with Clouds

Venus Without Clouds

Earth: Our Home

Three Views of Mars from Space

Mars – Close Up and Personal

Jupiter

Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto, A Planet?

Some Space Missions of Interest F Galileo to Jupiter’s Moons (1,2,5) F Missions to Mars: u Mars Orbital Surveyor u Mars Rovers F Mission to Saturn u Cassini F Mission to Mercury Mission to Mercury u Messenger Messenger

Additional Missions F LCROSS Mission to the Moon main/prelim_water_results.html F Mars Express index.html F Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

End of Introduction

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