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Author:

Meyer, David Michael, 1958-

Title:

Experiencing Hubble : exploring the Milky Way / David M. Meyer.

Publisher:

The Teaching Company,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + + 1 bonus disc with course workbook.

Subject:

Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
Space telescopes.
Cosmology.
Astronomy.
Lectures.
Science films.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Teaching Company, publisher.

Notes:

"Course no. 1889." Lecturer: David M. Meyer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each. Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163).

Contents:

Lecture 12. The future of the Milky Way. 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.

Summary:

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

Series:

Great courses. Science. Astronomy & space science

ISBN:

1980097739
9781980097730

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1141208870

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)