1 The Universe and Everything In it SESAME Astronomy Week 2 SESAME Astronomy Week 2.

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1 The Universe and Everything In it SESAME Astronomy Week 2 SESAME Astronomy Week 2

2 Starting at home...

3 Starting at home (not to scale) 3

4 Inner solar system

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6 Then the Asteroids

7 All the planets Get used to it!

8 All the planets

9 The Whole Solar System 9

10 The nearest stars (and gas)

11 (drawing) Local gas clouds

12 Our place in the Milky Way 12

13 The Milky Way

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16 Andromeda (nearest galaxy) 16

17 The local group drawing (not to scale) real images (not to scale) 17

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22 and other stuff... comets quasars jets gamma ray bursts cosmic microwave background lyman alpha forest