1. An Introduction to Astronomy Our Place in the Universe Lambert E. Murray, Ph.D. Professor of Physics

2. The Universe Contains: Stars Galaxies Clusters of Galaxies

3. Galaxies Come in All Shapes and Sizes

4. A Galaxy Like Our Own

5. Approaching Our Galaxy Edge-On

6. Stars inside the Spiral Arms

7. Individual Stars are Often Far Apart Our Nearest Neighbor is about 4.5 Light Years Away!

8. Our Star – The Sun

9. The Sun’s Family of Planets (Not to Scale)

10. The Sun’s Family of Planets (To Scale)

11. Mercury F The planet nearest to our Sun.

12. Venus Viewed from Space is Always Covered with Clouds

13. Venus Without Clouds

14. Earth: Our Home

15. Three Views of Mars from Space

16. Mars – Close Up and Personal

17. Jupiter

18. Jupiter’s Galilean Moons

19. Saturn

20. Uranus

21. Neptune

22. Pluto, A Planet?

23. Some Space Missions of Interest F Galileo to Jupiter’s Moons http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/ (1,2,5) F Missions to Mars: u Mars Orbital Surveyor http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/index.html u Mars Rovers http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ F Mission to Saturn u Cassini http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm F Mission to Mercury Mission to Mercury u Messenger Messenger http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/

24. Additional Missions F LCROSS Mission to the Moon http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/... main/prelim_water_results.html F Mars Express http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/... index.html F Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/

25. End of Introduction