Slide Title: Copernicus and Beyond

Slide Image: A line graph containing some key thoughts in astronomy over time. The history of astronomy contains a series of realizations that humans are both dwarfed by the universe that contains them and are not even made of the stuff that the universe is made of.

Items on the chart include:
Geocentric - 1500 B.C.
Heliocentric - 1500 A.D.
Other Stars - 1840
Other Galaxies - 1920
Other Matter - 1950
Other Energy - 2000
Other Life forms? - (midway between 2000 and 2010)
Other Universes? - 2010?

Image Source: Chris Impey

Slide Source: NSF and Chris Impey