Acknowledgments & Disclaimer Author: Melissa Rice

Photo Credits in order of appearance: Ian McKinnell/Alamy, Scott B. Rosen/Bill Smith Studio, 7x50 ED Astronomical Binoculars/Courtesy of William Optics/http://www.williamoptics.com, Courtesy of Celestron (3), NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech, Stocktrek Images/Getty Images, Courtesy of USGS, © CalculatorCat.com (8), MPI/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Corbis, NSSDC and NASA (4), NASA/JPL-Caltech, Corbis, Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Kanwarjit Singh Boparai/Shutterstock, Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis, Courtesy of SOHO (ESA & NASA), Norbert Rosing/National Geographic/Getty Images, NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI. Illustrations by Precision Graphics.

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