Source for images
- Optical image of Sirius: from Stars and Galaxies by Richard McCray, http://cosmos.colorado.edu/stem/courses/ASTR1120-3/documents/chapter5/lesson5.html; Chandra X-ray image from Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2000 October 6, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001006.html
- "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven: cover of edition by Ballantine Books (1989)
- Jocelyn Bell at Mullard Observatory: from http://cosmos.colorado.edu/cw2/courses/astr1120/text/chapter7/Bell.html
- Pulsar "scruff": from "A Tutorial on Radio Pulsars" by Jon Bell, http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pulsar/Education/Tutorial/tut/node3.html
- Rotating pulsar: from Pulsar beacon animation, http://www.amherst.edu/~gsgreenstein/progs/animations/pulsar_beacon/
- Crab Pulsar: from "Optical images of the Crab Pulsar" from the SEDS M1 page: http://www.seds.org./messier/more/m001_pulsar.html
- Pulsar radiation: from Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars by Jim Schombert, Lecture 16: Neutron stars http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec16.html
- Aerobee rocket launch: from Space Race, http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/SpaceRace/sec200/sec231.htm
- First X-ray source discovered: from the original paper by Giacconi et al. 1962, "Evidence for Rontgen-rays from sources outside the solar system", Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 439, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962PhRvL...9..439G
- Optical ID of Sco X-1: from original paper by Sandage et al. 1966, "On the optical identification of Sco X-1", Ap. J. 146, 316, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1966ApJ...146..316S
- Images of the X-ray and optical sky: from Five Years of ROSAT, http://wave.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/five_years/survey
- HEAO X-ray source catalogue: from Chandra resources, http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/illustrations/heaoA1.html
- Comparison of Aldebaran with the Sun: from Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars by Jim Schombert http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec09.html
- Material falling around: from Flannery 1975, "The location of the hot spot in cataclysmic variable stars as determined from particle trajectories", MNRAS 170, 325, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975MNRAS.170..325F
- Artist's impression of an accretion disk: from Astronomy Picture of the Day 1999 December 19, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991219.html
- Binary pulsar: from http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/courses/astro201/psr1913.htm
- Black widow pulsar: from Chandra Photo Album, http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/b1957/index.html
- Animation of the formation of a millisecond pulsar: from RXTE: Snazzy Science http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/Snazzy/Movies/millisecond.html
- Double pulsar image and animations: from "First-known double pulsar opens up new astrophysics", Jodrell Bank Press Release 2004/01, http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/doublepulsar/
- Velocity of companion to A0620-00: from original paper by Johnston, Kulkarni and Oke 1989, ApJ 345, 492 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ApJ...345..492J
- Supermassive black hole: painting by Don Dixon http://cosmographica.com/gallery/portfolio/portfolio301/pages/326-QuasarB.htm. Artwork copyright 2003 by Don Dixon/cosmographica.com, used with permission.
- Eclipse test of GR: from "Out with a Bang": a web version of the VSU planetarium show presented in April 2001, http://www.valdosta.edu/phy/astro/pl_shows/bh_2001/bh/index.html
- Gravitational lensing in the galaxy cluster Abell 2218: from Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2001 October 7 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011007.html
- "Rubber sheet" diagram: from "Spacetime Wrinkles: General Relativity" http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/GenRelativity.html
- Radius vs circumference in a warped sheet: redrawn from "Cosmic Catastrophes" by J. Craig Wheeler, Figure 9.6
- Shapiro delay: from "Astronomers Weigh "Recycled" Millisecond Pulsar", NRL Press Release 2-06r http://www.nrl.navy.mil/pressRel3ease.php?Y=2006&R=2-06r
- Gravity waves: from "Explorations: an Introduction to Astronomy" by Thomas Arny, Fig. 14.16 http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/arny/instructor/graphics/ch14/1416.html
- Gravitational redshift: from "Spacetime Wrinkles: Putting Relativity to the Test" http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/EinsteinTest.html
- Squashing a star: from "The Anatomy of Black Holes", http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/blackholes/imagine/contents.html
- Wormhole: from "How Stuff Works: How time travel will work" by Kevin Bonsor http://www.howstuffworks.com/time-travel.htm
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