Radio astronomy Observing the invisible universe
DVD - 2017
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- Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Science ; Subtopic: Astronomy & space science"--Cover.
"Course number 1878"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781501996993
- Disc 1. Radio astronomy and the invisible universe
- Thermal radio emission: the planets
- The birth of radio astronomy
- The discovery of interstellar hydrogen
- Radio telescopes and how they work
- Mapping the hydrogen sky
- Disc 2. Tour of the Green Bank Observatory
- Tour of the Green Bank Telescope
- Hydrogen and the structure of galaxies
- Pulsars: clocks in space
- Pulsars and gravity
- Pulsars and the 300-foot telescope
- Disc 3. The Big Bang: the oldest radio waves
- H II Regions and the birth of stars
- Supernovas and the death of stars
- Radio stars and early interferometers
- Radio source counts
- Active galactic nuclei and the VLA
- Disc 4. A telescope as big as the earth
- Galaxies and their gas
- Interstellar molecular clouds
- Star formation and ALMA
- Interstellar chemistry and life
- The future of radio astronomy.