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viii Dennis Anderson x Herblock xv R. Schreiber xviii Karsh of Ottawa xxii Bettmann/CORBIS xxiv – 1 R. Gendler 3 ESO 5 NASA/Wolfgang Brandner(JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (University of Washington), You-Hua Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 6 – 7 R. Gendler 8 NASA/JPL 10 NASA/NSF/ AURA/T. Rector (University of Alaska, Anchorage), WIYN, NOAO 12 NASA/JPL/ Northwestern University 16 – 17 NASA, composite by Walt Martin 18 – 19 C. O'Dell, M. Meixner, P . McCullough 20 Gregory Slater and Lawrence Shing, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center 23 NASA/SOHO 24 NASA/TRACE 27 NSA/ ESA/SOHO 28 Anglo-Australian Observatory, from UK Schmidt plates by David Malin 31 NASA/R. Lucas (STScI/AURA) 32 NASA/CXC/SAO 34 NASA/ESA, Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University) 37 Gary Stevens 38 NASA/ AURA/STScI, J. Hester, P . Scowen, B. Moore (Arizona State University) 40 – 41 European Southern Observatory's Melipal VLT Telescope 42 NASA/STScI/Corbis 44 – 45 NASA/STScI/AURA 46 NASA/ESA/HST 48 NASA/AURA/Hubble space telescope, H. Yang (University of Illinois), J. Hester (Arizona State University) 50 – 51 G. Stevens 52 Janos Rohan (astro.ini.hu), Szeged, Hungary 54 NASA/ STScI/AURA, N. Scoville (Caltech), T. Rector (NOAO) 57 NASA/STScI/AURA, Bo Reipurth (University of Hawaii) 61 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, J. C. Cuillandre (XFHT), Coelum 62 European Southern Observatory 64 – 65 H. Ford, G. Illingworth, M. Clampin, G. Hartig 66 AFP/Getty Images 70 – 71 Royce Bair 72 NASA 74 NASA/STScI/AURA 77 NASA/ESA/H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth(UCSC/LO), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team 78 NASA/W. Keel (STScI/AURA) 83 NASA/Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team[Sylvia Baggett (STScI), Richard Hook (ST-ECF), Zoltan Levay (STScI)] 84 John Bally (University of Colorado),Bo Reinpurth (University of Hawaii), NOAO/ AURA/NSF 87 NASA/STScI/AURA 88 – 89 P. Knezek (WIYN), NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) 90 JPL/NASA 93 NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/ Southwest Research Institute/Goddard Space Flight Center 94 NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington 96 – 97 NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute 98 NASA/STSCI/AURA, J. Maiz Apellániz (Instituto de Andalucia, Spain) 100 NASA/ESA/J. Hester (ASU) 101 NASA/CXC, D. Strickland (JHU) 102 – 103 NASA/ESA/STScI, K. Sahu 104 NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA, M. Robberto (HSpace Telescope Science InstituteH) 105 NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA, C. Engelbracht(University of Arizona) 106 Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Photograph from UK Schmidt plates by D. Malin 108–109 NASA/ ESA/STScI/AURA 110 Anglo-Australian Observatory, D. Malin 112 NASA/ ESAH/S. Beckwith (STScI) 114 Anglo-Australian Observatory, D. Malin 116 NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA 118 ESO 120 NASA/J. Hester (ASU) 122 AngloAustralian Observatory/Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Photograph from UK Schmidt plates by D. Malin 123 R. Gendler 129 Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos

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页码viii–ix　极光，（英文名词为polar aurorae，包括北极光——aurora borealis，直译北欧极光；南极光——aurora australis，直译澳洲极光）是大自然中最壮丽多彩的奇景。这张图名为“天使之火”（此图获得2005年Nordly年度图片大奖），尽管以双色调展示，仍不失其亮丽风采。

页码xxiv–1　仙女座大星系，亦即M31，是距离我们银河系最近的大星系。尽管近期的研究表明银河系是一个棒旋星系，它仍然被认为与M31很像。银河系和M31是本星系群中的两个主要星系。仙女座大星系周围的弥散光来自组成它的上千亿颗恒星。图中大星系周围显著的恒星实际上是前景中位于我们银河系内的恒星。这张漂亮的图片由40张高分辨灰度图拼接而成，这些图片拍摄于2002年9月至11月间。拍照所用的望远镜是一台12.5英寸口径的RC卡塞格林望远镜（Ritchey Chretien Cassegrain）。这张图片被《天文学杂志》（Astronomy Magazine）评选为近30年最佳天文图片之一。

页码18–19　螺旋星云NGC7293。这个天体是距离太阳最近的行星状星云。不同色彩自然分层并示踪了来自中心恒星喷射的不同电离度的物质壳层。氧原子被激发（或者说被加热）使中心区域显现出蓝色，而外侧红色区域是氢和氮主导的区域。红色壳层内最小的径向液滴状结构尺度也有150个天文单位（即150倍日地距离）。人们特别为这种漂亮的结构命名，称之为“向日葵星云”。

页码50–51　M42，即猎户座大星云。2000年11月，一名天文爱好者在美国约书亚树村（Joshua Tree national park）拍摄到了这张杰出的照片。

页码64–65　老鼠星系（亦即NGC4676）。位于后发星系团，距离我们300光年。这是一对正在相互作用的星系，它拖出了一条用恒星气体组成的长尾巴，看上去像一只老鼠，因此被称为老鼠星系。最终它们将并合到一起成为一个星系。