A Visual Guide to the Universe

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Call Number: DVD 523.1 Me Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"The Great Courses has partnered with the Smithsonian to create unique and fascinating educational experiences, such as this visually stunning series..."--Container.
18 lectures (30 minutes each).
Includes course guidebook.
Disc 1. Probing the cosmos from space -- The magnetic beauty of the active Sun -- Mars: water and the search for life -- Vesta and the asteroid belt -- The dark side of the bullet cluster -- Saturn: the rings of enchantment -- The ice moons Europa and Enceladus -- Disc 2. The search for other Eartjs -- The Swan Nebula -- The Seven Sisters and their stardust veil -- Future supernova, Eta Carinae -- Runaway stra, Zeta Ophiuchi -- The center of the Milky Way -- Disc 3. The Andromeda Galaxy -- Hubble's Galaxy zoo -- The brightest quasar -- The dark side of the bullet cluster -- The cosmic reach of gamma-ray bursts -- The afterglow of the Big Bang.
Lecturer: David M. Meyer, professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University.
DVD, full screen.

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