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As part of the FPF seminar (NPOZ008), a cycle of lectures on PHYSICS AS AN ADVENTURE OF EXPLORATION took place again in the summer semester 2023. The twelfth final lecture from 5/18/2023 (loosely following on from Prof. Podolsky's previous lectures this semester, given under the collective title TO THE DEPTHS OF THE SPACE) is on the topic: Cosmos as a whole What do we know about it today? Lecturer: prof. RNDr. Jiří Podolský, CSc., DSc. (Institute of Theoretical Physics, MFF UK). Some links from the presentation: animated tour of Bennu's surface: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... phylogenetic tree of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_un... https://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyloge... ESA - Rosetta and Philae: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Spa... http://sci.esa.int/comet-viewer Resources and recommended reading: Simon Singh: The Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It (Dokořán, Zip Edition, Prague, 2007) Robert P. Kirschner: Eccentric Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Acceleration of the Cosmos (Paseka, Fénix Edition, Prague , 2002) Kip S. Thorne: Black holes and collapsed time (Mladá fronta, Kolumbus edition, Prague, 2004) Josip Kleczek: The universe around us (Albatros, Prague, 1986) Lyman Page: Little book of cosmology (Matfyzpress, Prague, 2021) Program of lectures: http://utf.mff.cuni.cz/seminare/filos.pl