Lectures designed to provide a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. The new discoveries reported in the 2003 course are integrated and recent findings (through mid-2006) are included.

Part 5 of 8, lectures 49-60, Discs 9-10. Disc 9. 49. Solar neutrinos, probes of the Sun's core -- 50. Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets -- 51. Our Sun's brilliant future -- 52. White dwarfs and nova eruptions -- 53. Exploding stars, celestial fireworks! -- 54. White dwarf supernovae, stealing to explode -- Disc 10. 55. Core-collapse supernovae, gravity wins -- 56. The brightest supernova in nearly 400 years -- 57. The corpses of massive stars -- 58. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity -- 59. Warping of space and time -- 60. Black hones, abandon hope, ye who enter.