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05100cgm a2200505Ia 4500 001 09774666060011DFB7FE39296036B428 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 007 vd cvaizu 008 070222s2007 vau000 vleng d 020 $a 9781598032741 020 $a 1598032747 028 40 $a 1810 $b Teaching Company 035 $a (OCoLC)84846466 040 $a JRY $c JRY $d SILO $d IBI $d MKN $d SILO 050 4 $a QB43.3 $b .U64 2007 245 0 $a Understanding the universe, an introduction to astronomy $h [videorecording]. 250 $a 2nd ed. 260 $a Springfield, VA : $b Teaching Co., $c 2007. 300 $a 16 videodiscs : $b sd., col. ; $c 4 3/4 in. + $e 8 guides. 440 0 $a Great courses (DVD). $p Math, science, & economics 538 $a DVD. 511 0 $a Lectures delivered by Alex Filippenko. 500 $a 96 lectures, 30 min. each. 500 $a Course no. 1810. 520 $a Lectures designed to provide a non-technical description of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. The new discoveries reported in the 2003 course are integrated and recent findings (through mid-2006) are included. 505 00 $g Disc 2. $t Early studies of the solar system. $t The rainbow connection ; $t Sunrise, sunset ; $t Bright objects in the night sky ; $t Fainter phenomena in the night sky ; $t Our sky through binoculars and telescopes -- $g Disc 2. $t The celestial sphere ; $t The reason for the seasons ; $t Lunar phases and eerie lunar eclipses ; $t Glorious total solar eclipses ; $t More eclipse tales ; $t Early studies of the solar system. 505 00 $g Disc 4. $t A better set of eyes. $t Galileo and the Copernican revolution ; $t Refinements to the heliocentric model ; $t On the shoulders of giants ; $t Surveying space and time ; $t Scale models of the universe -- $g Disc 4. $t Light: the supreme informant ; $t The wave-particle duality of light ; $t The colors of stars ; $t The fingerprints of atoms ; $t Modern telescopes ; $t A better set of eyes. 505 00 $g Disc 6. $t Catastrophic collisons. $t The Earth, third rock from the sun ; $t Our moon, Earth's nearest neighbor ; $t Mercury and Venus ; $t Of Mars and martians ; $t Jupiter and its amazing moons -- $g Disc 6. $t Magnificent Saturn ; $t Uranus and Neptune, the small giants ; $t Pluto and its cousins ; $t Asteroids and dwarf planets ; $t Comets: gorgeous pimordial snowballs ; $t Catastrophic collisons. 505 00 $g Disc 8. $t How stars shine: nature's nuclear reactors. $t The quest for other planetary systems ; $t Extra-solar planets galore ; $t Life beyond the Earth ; $t The search for extraterrestrials ; $t Special relativity and interstellar travel -- $g Disc 8. $t Stars: distant suns ; $t The intrinsic brightnesses of stars ; $t The diverse sizes of stars ; $t Binary stars and stellar masses ; $t Star clusters, ages, and remote distances ; $t How stars shine: nature's nuclear reactors. 505 00 $g Disc 10. $t Black holes: abandon hope, ye who enter. $t Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets ; $t Our sun's briliant future ; $t White dwarfs and nova eruptions ; $t Exploding stars: celestial fireworks ; $t White dwarf supernovae: stealing to explode -- $g Disc 10. $t Core-collapse supernovae: gravity wins ; $t The brightest supernova in nearly 400 years ; $t The corpses of massive stars ; $t Einstein's general theory of relativitiy ; $t Warping of space and time ; $t Black holes: abandon hope, ye who enter. 505 00 $g Disc 12. $t Expansion of the universe and the big bang. $t Imagining the journey to a black hole ; $t Wormholes: gateways to other universes? ; $t Quantum physics and black-hole evaporation ; $t Enigmatic gamma-ray bursts ; $t Birth cries of black holes -- $g Disc 12. $t Our home: the Milky Way Galaxy ; $t Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy ; $t Other galaxies: "Island universes" ; $t The dark side of matter ; $t Cosmology: the really big picture ; $t Expansion of the universe and the big bang. 505 00 $g Disc 14. $t The afterglow of the big bang. $t The evolution of galaxies ; $t Active galaxies and quasars ; $t Cosmic powerhouses of the distant past ; $t Supermassive black holes ; $t Feeding the monster -- $g Disc 14. $t The paradox of the dark night sky ; $t The age of the universe ; $t When geometry is destiny ; $t The mass density of the universe ; $t Einstein's biggest blunder? ; $t The afterglow of the big bang. 505 00 $g Disc 16. $t Reflections on life and the cosmos. $t The stuff of the cosmos ; $t Dark energy: quantum fluctuations? ; $t Dark energy: quintessence? ; $t Grand unification & theories of everything ; $t Searching for hidden dimensions -- $g Disc 16. $t The shape, size, and fate of the universe ; $t In the beginning ; $t The inflationary universe ; $t The ultimate free lunch? ; $t A universe of universes ; $t Reflections on life and the cosmos. 650 0 $a Cosmology. 650 0 $a Astronomy. 651 0 $a Solar system. 700 1 $a Filippenko, Alexei V. 710 2 $a Teaching Company. 941 $a 2 945 $a dvv 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103023809.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20171101010441.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=09774666060011DFB7FE39296036B428 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search