Astro 1: `Slides' for Class 1 - A Quick Tour of the Universe



A `deep' view of the Universe





Gaseous `pillars' in the Eagle Nebula - Sites of star formation





Protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula





Warped protoplanetary disk around the star Beta Pictoris





The Cat's Eye Nebula - The `death shroud' of a star like the Sun





The Hourglass Nebula - The `death shroud' of a star like the Sun





X-ray image of the supernova remnant Cas A - The remains of an exploded, massive star





X-ray image of the Crab Nebula pulsar - The collapsed core of a massive star





Rings around the remnant of Supernova 1987A





White dwarf stars in the globular cluster M4





Images of the Milky Way Galaxy taken in different types of light





An X-ray image of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy - Site of a massive black hole





The Cartwheel Galaxy - An example of galaxy collisions





The `starburst' galaxy NGC 253 - Optical image with X-ray contours





A gravitationally lensed quasar - Note the four images of the same object





Gravitational lensing by a cluster of galaxies





The full view of the Hubble Deep Field-North





Closeups of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field-North





The Chandra Deep Field-North - An X-ray image of the distant Universe





The planet Neptune





Storms in the atmosphere of Saturn





Storms in the atmosphere of Jupiter





Site of a comet impact on Jupiter - Shoemaker Levy 9 in July 1994





Four of the large moons of Jupiter - Ganymede, Callisto, Io, Europa





The planet Mars





The Barringer Meteorite Crater in Winslow, Arizona





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