Dispatches from Planet 3

  Uranus, (i), (ii), (iii)(table), (iv)

  van de Kamp, Peter, (i)

  Van Helden, Albert, (i)

  Very Large Array. See Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA)

  Virgo gravitational wave detector, (i), (ii)

  Virgo Supercluster, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Volkoff, George, (i)

  Walker, Gordon, (i)

  Walsh, Dennis, (i)

  water, (i), (ii)

  Weber, Joseph, (i)

  Weinberg, Steven, (i), (ii)

  Weiss, Rainer, (i). See also LIGO

  Welther, Barbara, (i)

  Wheeler, John Archibald, (i), (ii), (iii)(fig.), (iv)

  white dwarf stars, (i), (ii)(fig.)

  Wilson, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii)

  WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), (i). See also dark matter

  Wolszczan, Alex, (i)

  Wordsworth, William, (i)

  Wulf, Theodor, (i)

  X-rays, (i), (ii), (iii)(fig.), (iv), (v). See also quasars

  Zel’dovich, Yakov, (i)

  Zwicky, Fritz, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)(fig.), (v), (vi), (vii)