Photo Credits

© Guillermo Abramson/Celestia freeware: 249

© AirPhoto/Jim Wark: 65

Alamy: © INTERFOTO PRESSEBILDAGENTUR: 103; © Pictorial Press, Ltd.: 268; © Science History Images: 119; © Stocktrek Images, Inc.: 505

ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO: 466

© Anthony Ayiomamitis: 167

© Julian Baum/Take 27 Ltd.: 55

© Vladimir Bodurov/http://blog.bodurov.com/Nearest-Stars-3D Map: 195

© Michael Carroll: 395

© J. Chennamangalam: 311

© Steward Cohen (2001): 315

© Don Dixon/Cosmographica: 27, 51, 309, 513

© Andrew Dunn: 164

ESA: 446; AOES: 497; David Ducros: 481; Hubble/Nick Rose: 499; MPAe: 156; VIRTIS & VMC TEAMS: 35

ESO: 170, 257; ESO10: 453; ESO online Digital Sky Survey: 142; N. Bartmann/spaceengine.org: 487; Y. Beletsky: 161; B. Tafreshi/twanight.org: 467

Flickr: Alex Marentes: 106; Nantucket Historical Association: 203

Getty Images: © Bettmann/CORBIS: 237; © Elizaveta Becker/ullstein bild: 471

William K. Hartmann/Planetary Science Institute: 253, 261, 423

Institute for Biblical & Scientific Studies: 67

ISAS/JAXA: 449

iStock: © Sergii Shcherbakov: 327; © Duncan Walker: 165

J.L. Johnson, T.H. Greif, P. Navratil, V. Bromm, and Texas Advanced Computing Center: 23

© Alexander Krot: 329

© LaurieHatch.com: 399

© M. Lellouch/Grand Canyon National Park: 59

© M. Lemke and C.S. Jeffery: 243

Library of Congress: 236, 241, 242, 250; George Grantham Bain: 262

© Thierry Lombry: 173

courtesy of Lowell Observatory Archives: 251, 271

© Lucasfilm, Ltd.: 143

© Larry McNish/Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: 451

© Don P. Mitchell: 331

© Moonrunner Designs Ltd.: 19

courtesy of the NAIC – Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF: 307

NASA: 141, 260, 265, 283, 293, 299, 322, 323, 325, 339, 341, 343, 347, 371, 462, 465, 483, 495; 2MASS, a joint project of the University of Massachusettes and the Infrared Processing and Analysis CenterCALTECH, funded by NASA/NSF. Atlas image mosaics by E. Kopan, R. Cutri, S. Van Dyk (IPAC): 267; Ames Research Center: 346; Ames/JPL-Caltech: 455; ARC/JPL: 365; M. Blanton and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 385; P. Cinzano et al./DMSP Satellites/RAS: 381; CXC/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.: 319; CXC/M. Markevitch et al.: 279; CXC/SAO/J. Hughes et al.: 425; CXC/Universtiy of Utrecht/J. Vink et al.; XMM-Newton: 92; Don Davis: 61; ESA/E. Jullo (JPL)/ P. Natarajan (Yale University)/J.-P. Kneib (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, France): 421; ESA/E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona): 155; ESA/L. McFadden (University of Maryland-College Park): 191; ESA/Felix Mirabel: 313; ESA/G. Bacon (STScI): 355, 405; ESA/H. Weaver (JHUAPL)/A. Stern(SwRI)/HST Pluto Companion Search Team: 354; ESA/HEIC/Hubble Heritage Team: 171; ESA/Hubble Heritage Team: 281, 507; ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/A. Riess (STScI): 259; ESA/J. Anderson/R. van der Marel (STScI): 231; ESA/J. Bell (Cornell University)/M. Wolff (SSI): 502; ESA/J. Hester (Arizona State University): 107; ESA/L. Sromovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)/H. Hammel (SSI)/K. Rages (SETI): 177; ESA/ M. Robberto (STScI/ESA)/Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team: 137; ESA/P. Challis/R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): 379; ESA/Richard Ellis (Caltech)/Jean-Paul Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, France): 363; ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA): 301; ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/HUDF Team: 269; ESA/SOHO: 282, 435; Dr. Wendy L. Freedman, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute Washington: 255; Aubrey Gemignani: 485; GSFC: 391; GSFC/SDO: 31, 37, 215; Hubble Heritage Team: 147, 151; Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team: 401; JHUAPL: 428; JHUAPL/Carnegie Institute: 463; JHUAPL/Carnegie Institute Washington: 33; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute: 477; JPL: 49, 93, 129, 131, 133, 135, 137, 157, 178, 179, 201, 210, 211, 286, 287, 297, 348, 349, 351, 353, 356, 361, 367, 369, 373, 377, 383, 397, 406, 427, 434, 440, 447, 464; JPL-Caltech: 101, 436, 442, 443, 468, 478, 486, 488, 493, 509; JPL-Caltech/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA): 512; JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech): 437; JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin: 489; JPL-Caltech/M. Kelley (University of Minnesota): 187; JPL-Caltech/MSSS: 17, 469; JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SwR/Kevin M. Gill: 149; JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC): 393; JPL-Caltech/Space Science: 45, 441; JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran: 479; JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA: 189, 474, 475; JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona: 225, 227, 445, 461; JPL-Caltech/University of Maryland: 445, 461; JPL/Cornell University: 226, 358; JPL/Cornell/USGS: 438, 439; JPL/DLR: 407; JPL/IMP Team: 415; JPL/JHUAPL: 413; JPL/LASP: 359; JPL/MSSS: 417; JPL/SSI: 145, 152, 153(x2), 158, 159 180, 181, 183, 207, 239; JPL/SSIitute: 43; JPL/USGS: 357, 382, 389; JSC: 3, 284, 285, 335, 409; S. Kulkarni (Clatech)/D. Golimowski (JHU): 403; Emily Lakdawalla (The Planetary Society): 459; S. Lee (University of Colorado)/J. Bell (Cornell University/M. Wolff (SSI): 39; J. Morse/STScI: 29; Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatory: 400; MSFC: 424; National Radio Astronomy Observatories: 273; NEAR Project/JHUAPL: 429; NSSDC Photo Gallery: 330, 336, 337; Tim Pyle: 454; Pat Rawlings/SAIC: 503; T.A. Rector (University of Alaska-Anchorage, NRAO/AUI/NSF)/B.A. Wolpa (NOAO/AURA/NSF): 303; H. Richer (University of British Columbia): 515; Jim Ross: 457; SAO/CSC: 219; SDO: 263; N.A. Sharp, NOAO/NSO/Kitt Peak FTS/AURA/NSF: 193; STS-119 Shuttle Crew: 419; STScI: 85, 387, 491; Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones: 345; USAF/J. Strang: 295; Corby Waste: 416; Fred Walter (SUNY Stony Brook): 277; WMAP Science Team: 21, 175, 433

NOAA: 168

© Tyler Nordgren: 233

NYU Archives: 197

Orbis World Globes/www.earthball.com: 75

© J.M. Pasachoff, W.G. Wagner, and H. Druckmülerová: 223

The Planetary Society: 473

Private Collection: 77, 79, 81, 84, 91, 100, 113, 115, 117, 146

© Massimo Ramella: 384

© Pedro Ré: 74

Kristian Resset: 69

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: 431

courtesy of University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy: 194

courtesy of Wikimedia Foundation: 89, 99, 109, 114, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 132, 134, 138, 139, 154, 169, 182, 186, 221, 252, 472; Adamt: 105; Brian Brondel: 83; CXC/SAO, Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: MPIS, Calar Alto, O. Krause et al.: 116; EugeneZelenko: 317; Adam Evans: 511; Goodvint: 333; HTO: 63; Jastrow: 123; E. Kolmhofer/ H. Raab/ Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz Austria: 411; KuniyoshiProject.com: 73; Ricardo Liberato: 71; Marco Polo: 500, 501; Marsyas: 86; Mdf/NASA/JPL/IAU: 41; Meteorite Recon: 185; Mukerjee: 95; orci: 240; Alex Ostrovski: 111; Pfalstad: 205; Prolineserver/Holgar Motzkau: 229; Reyk YO!: 217; Daniel Sancho: 209; Ferdinand Schmutzer: 247; Silvercat: 298; skatebiker/Chris Heilman: 240; John Sullivan: 321; taking.kwong: 110; Mike Young/Ed Grafton: 332*