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Photo: (galaxies) NASA/Hubble
Life's Little Essential Photos: (waterfall, iceberg) © Peter Tyson; (Titan) © NASA, Voyager 2
A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson Photos: (Tyson) © Harry Heliotis; (Europa, Titan, Webb telescope) © NASA/JPL; (Tyson pointing) © Delvinhair Productions; (planetarium) © D. Finnin/AMNH
How Did Life Begin? Photos: (Knoll) Courtesy of Andy Knoll; (Darwin, Miller, bacteria) © Corbis Images; (Earth) NASA; (DNA) © WGBH/NOVA
Does Mars Have Life? Photos: (McKay) NASA/ARC; (Mars crater, Mars globe, martian north pole, martian surface, Mars Polar Lander) NASA/JPL
Who Needs Galaxies? Photos: (Faber) Courtesy of R. R. Jones, Hubble Deep Field team, NASA; (Sombrero, solar system, Andromeda, Milky Way, deep field) © NASA; (Keck) Courtesy of the Keck Observatory
Are We Alone? Photos: (Tyson) © Daniel Deitch; (Ward) © WGBH/NOVA (Jupiter, Earth) © NASA; (chimpanzee) Courtesy of UNWF; (flatworm) © Corbis Images; (coral) Courtesy of NOAA
Do Aliens Exist in the Milky Way? Photos: (Earth, Milky Way, meteorite, space ship, Mars vehicle, deep field, radio telescopes) © NASA; (Antarctica) © Liesl Clark for WGBH/NOVA; (chimpanzee) Courtesy of UNWF; (octopus) Courtesy of NOAA; (equation, alien) © WGBH/NOVA
The Drake Equation (Drake, bacteria) Corbis Images; (Milky Way, star formation, Earth, telescopes, meteorite); © NASA; (star wobble) produced by the Cornell Theory Center based on research by Alex Wolszczan, Penn State; (dolphins) Courtesy of NOAA
Decoding Cosmic Spectra Photos: (star, galaxy, nebula, planet) © NASA; graphics: © WGBH/NOVA
The Pillars of Creation Courtesy of Jeff Hester
The Origins Game (Shark Bay) © Malcolm Wallace, University of Melbourne; (Murchison meteor) © Martin Altmann; (Akilia) © Christopher Fedo; (gold) Courtesy of USGS; (snottites, Galapagos rift) © WGBH/NOVA; (Horn Antenna) © Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis; (CBI) © CBI/Caltech/NSF; (Keck) Courtesy of Keck Observatory; (Tagish Lake) Courtesy of University of Western Ontario and University of Calgary; (Barringer Crater) © NASA/LPI/David Roddy; (Kolyma) © NASA/Marshall; (Rio Tinto) Courtesy of Carol Stoker, NASA Ames Research Center; (trilobite) © James L. Amos/Corbis
History of the Universe Images: (left to right, 1-5) From a simulation of the Formation of Galaxies and Large Scale Structure by Michael Norman, Brian O'Shea and Greg Bryan, Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium (GC3), and visualized by Donna Cox, Stuart Levy, Robert Patterson, NCSA/UIUC; (left to right, 6,8,9,11) STScI/AURA/NASA; (left to right, 7) High Z; (left to right, 10,12) NOVA/NASA
A Brief History of Life Images: (Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous) © John Sibbick; (Permian, Triassic, Quaternary) © Douglas Henderson; (Tertiary) Courtesy of Department of Library Services, American Museum of Natural History
ET Gallery (Coneheads) © Howard Jacqueline; (Day the Earth Stood Still) © John Springer Collection; (Star Trek) © Bettmann/Corbis; (Predator) © Sunset Boulevard; (Men in Black) © Columbia Pictures/ZUMA/Corbis; (all others) © Jerry Ohlinger
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science
Foundation under Grant No. ESI-9814643. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and
do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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