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A Delta Scorpii, 96 Alpha Centauri, 14, 34, 71 Diamond ring, 42 Andromeda Galaxy, 110, 114 Antares, 96, 97 Antennae galaxies, 111 E Apps, K., 40 Eclipse of 2005, 25 Arrhenius, Svante, 65 of 1961, 41 Ashen Light, 66 Einstein, Albert, 51, 105, 130, 131 Enceladus, 14, 22, 23, 47, 48, 82, 85, 145–147, 150 B Enriquez, J.C., 114 Baily’s Beads, 26, 27, 42 Epimetheus, 47 Beagle, 78 Epsilon Eridani, 15, 39, 92, 93, 165 Beta Scorpii, 96 Eris, 18, 33, 35, 58, 59, 62, 63 Betelgeux, 31, 71, 96 Eta Carinae, 30, 31 Black holes, 30, 50, 54, 55, 103–105 Europa, 14, 20, 35, 147

C F Carrington, 7 Face on Mars, 79 Cassini space-craft, 82 Fomalhaut, 39, 93 Cepheid variables, 110 Ceres, 35, 57, 62, 63 Charon, 34, 59, 62 G Chiron, 34 Gagarin, Yuri, 2, 73, 155, 157 Chromosphere, solar, 7 Galaxy collisions, 111 Colshaw, 88, 138, 153 Galaxy, rotation, 50 Comet Arend-Roland Gamma-ray bursters, 53–55, 165 Holmes, 113–115, 117 Gamma-rays, 54, 55, 150 Schwassmann-Wachann, 114 Gliese, 40, 92, 93 Shoemaker-Levy, 2 Globular clusters, 97, 114 Swift-Tuttle, 100, 102 Tempel, 2, 9, 10, 34 Crab Nebula, 32, 50, 54, 104 H Halley’s Comet, 10, 88, 100, 118 Halley’s Comet society, 88 D Hawaii, 2, 37, 38, 140 Deep impact space-craft, 10, 34 Hawking radiation, 105 Deimos, 78, 79 Helioseismology, 70

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Hubble Space Telescope, 1, 3, 30, 38, 46, 59, Neutron stars, 30, 32, 55 63, 74, 111, 114, 140 New Horizons space-craft, 34, 63 Huygens probe, 82 Nix, 59, 63 Hydra, 59, 63 Hyperion, 21, 47, 48 O Oort Cloud, 34, 59 I Opportunity space rover, 20, 78, 126 Iapetus, 21, 22, 47, 48, 83–85 Orientale, Mare, 27 Iota Herculis, 93 Orion, 31, 43, 71, 95, 96 Orion Nebula, 38 Oschin Telescope, 18 J James Webb Space Telescope, 3, 74 Janus, 47 P Jodrell Bank, 107–108, 121 Palomar telescope, 10, 18 Jupiter Pandora, 47 Red Spots, 57 Pegasus, 39, 110 Perseid meteors, 99, 100, 101, 118 Planets of other stars, 92 K Pluto, 2, 18, 20, 33–35, 57, 61–63, 89 Keck telescopes, 40 Porco, 20, 22 Kuiper Belt, 18, 21, 33, 34, 57–59, 62, 92 Prometheus, 47 KY Cygni, 31 Proxima Centauri, 6, 111 Ptolemy, 18, 95, 97, 163 Pulsars, 104, 108 L Lake Vostok, 14 Life elsewhere, 13–16, 131, 164 Q Lovell, Sir Bernard, 107, 108, 121 Quetelet, A., 100 Lunar base, 75, 88, 156, 157, 160

R M R Doradus, 31 M4, 97 Rosette space-craft, 11 M6, 97 M7, 97 Marcy, G., 40, 138 S Mars Santorini, 26 probes, 14 Saturn, 2, 14, 18, 21, 22, 34, 45–48, Marsden, B., 114 58, 82–85, 137, 138, 140, Mauna Kea, 37–40, 140 145–147, 150 May, Dr. Brian, 88 Scorpius, 95–98 Mercury, 14, 43, 50, 57, 63, 67, 118, 119 Scuba, 39, 40 Meteors, 34, 99–102, 108, 118, 119 Sedna, 18, 34, 59 Michell, J., 104 Sellers, Piers, 73 Moon, the Slipher, V., 110 shadow of, 26, 42 SMART, 20 Mu Cephei, 31 SOHO space-craft, 8 Solar cycle, 7, 42, 122 Solar system, origin, 10 N Spirit rover, 20 Neptune, 14, 33, 40, 57–59, 61–63, 84, 93, Squyres, Dr. S., 20, 77, 78 118 Star maps, 18 Index 169

Stars, evolution of V formation of, 40, 111, 150 Venus, 14, 20, 26, 43, 58, twinkling of, 29 65–67, 78, 89, 93, Sunspots, 6, 42, 70, 122 138, 164 Sun, the Venus Express, 65–67 energy of, 6, 96 Very Large Telescope Supernovae, 18, 50, 51, 53, 54 (VLT), 2, 140 SuperWASP, 90–93 Swift, Lewis, 100 W Weakly Interacting Massive T Particles (WIMPS), Tau Ceti, 39, 92, 165 50, 131 Titan, 14, 21, 22, 45, 46, 48, 81–86, 145, 146 Wheeler, 104 Tombaugh, C., 61 White dwarfs, 30–32, 50, 59, 104 T Tauri stars, 58 WIMPS. See Weakly Interacting Massive Tuttle, Horace, 100 Particles

U Z UK Infra-Red telescope (UKIRT), 38, 39 Zero gravity, 74 Uranus, 18, 34, 58, 61, 84, 150 Zwicky, F., 49, 50