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Experiencing Hubble : exploring the Milky Way. Cover Image DVD DVD

Experiencing Hubble : exploring the Milky Way.

Summary:

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781629978321
  • ISBN: 1629978329
  • Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
  • Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from disc label.
"Course no. 1889."
Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Participant or Performer Note:
Lecturer: David M. Meyer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Language Note:
In English ; closed-captioned.
Subject: Milky Way.
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
Space telescopes.
Cosmology.
Astronomy.
Genre: Lectures.
Science films.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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