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Origins of the Universe 6 Copernicus to Newton 6 Observing stars 7 The sky at night 7 Looking at the night sky 8 Measuring the heavens 10 Cataloguing objects in the sky 12
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Star factories 14 The birthplace of new stars:
interstellar clouds 17 Binary stars 18 Star clusters 19 The life and death of stars 20 Pulsars (pulsating radio stars) 34 Quasars 35 Black holes 35
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The nature of galaxies 40 How stars move in a galaxy 42 How galaxies were formed 42 Edwin Powell Hubble 42 Types of galaxies 45 Radio galaxies 45
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New rules 46 Albert Einstein and the theory
of relativity 48 The Universe has a structure 49 The Local Group 50 Light as a time machine 50 Stars in the Magellanic Clouds 51 An expanding Universe 53 The Big Bang 54 The first moments of the Universe 54 How the Universe might continue 57
The M27 Dumbbell Nebula.
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