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About 14 billion years ago, all of the universe that we see today was contained in a vanishingly small volume. Since then, the universe has expanded at a sometimes explosive rate. During the earliest epoch of expansion the universe increased in size by a factor of about 1043 in about 10-34 seconds! A few minutes after this exponential expansion the primordial atoms of hydrogen and helium were formed. As the universe expanded and cooled the atoms fell together and coalesced to form all that we see today—stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies. Many galaxies contain supermassive black holes that power huge jets of material that spew from the galaxy's center. The universe contains a myriad of exotic objects. Understanding how the universe developed and how these exotic objects work is the goal of this course. We will start by studying our own galaxy and then explore the workings of other galaxies, and finally study the universe as a whole. We will try to understand how the universe developed, what it is made of, and try to predict it's ultimate fate.