This is an introductory course in astronomy. We will discuss basic concepts and interesting recent results, including various images of astronomical objects. We will also mention techniques which have been employed to obtain these results. You can download supplementary notes for this course (for the moment, only the Czech version is currently available):
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and other extensions. Some illustrations have been taken from various press releases and
public internet sites. We made our best effort to indicate links and
references where further information can be found, and we apologize for
unintentional omissions.