- Subjects
- Genres
- Lectures
Science films
Educational films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
-
Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Science ; Subtopic: Astronomy & space science"--Cover.
"Course number 1889"--Disc labels.
12 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Course guidebooks laid in each container. Guidebooks contain outlines for each 30 minute lecture. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD.
- Bibliography
- Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163).
- ISBN
- 9781629978321
- Disc 1. Lecture 1. The unseen face of our spiral galaxy ; Lecture 2. Viewing the galaxy through a comet ; Lecture 3. A cloud of stardust: the Horsehead nebula ; Lecture 4. A star awakens: the jets of Herbig-Haro 24 ; Lecture 5. A star cluster blossoms: Westerlund 2 ; Lecture 6. An interstellar cavity: the Bubble nebula
- Disc 2. Lecture 7. The interstellar echo of a variable star ; Lecture 8. Tracing the veil of a prehistoric supernova ; Lecture 9. The stellar vortex at the galactic center ; Lecture 10. The galactic halo's largest star cluster ; Lecture 11. Satellite galaxies: the Magellanic clouds ; Lecture 12. The future of the Milky Way.