Experiencing Hubble Exploring the Milky Way

DVD - 2020

"Check out the latest images the Hubble Space Telescope has captured of our Milky Way Galaxy--and beyond."--Container.

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Subjects: Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)

Space telescopes.

Cosmology.

Astronomy.

Lectures.

Science films.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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: David Michael Meyer, 1958- (instructor)
Item Description: "The Great courses, Topic: Science ; Subtopic: Astronomy & space science"--Cover.
"Course no. 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.