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Extrasolar planets.
Black holes (Astronomy).
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Stars, New.
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Filippenko, Alexei V.
Astronomy.
Cosmology.
Planets.
Galaxies.
Extrasolar planets.
Black holes (Astronomy).
Giant stars.
Gravitational collapse.
Stars with planets.
Stars, New.
Inflationary universe.
Expanding universe.
Solar system.
Universe.
Milky Way.
Sun.
Moon.
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Understanding the universe [videorecording (DVD)] : an introduction to astronomy / Alex Filippenko.
by
Filippenko, Alexei V.
The Teaching Co., 2007.
Call #:
DVD 520 F483u
Subjects
Astronomy.
Cosmology.
Planets.
Galaxies.
Extrasolar planets.
Black holes (Astronomy).
Giant stars.
Gravitational
collapse
.
Stars with planets.
Stars, New.
Inflationary universe.
Expanding universe.
Solar system.
Universe.
Milky Way.
Sun.
Moon.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Astronomy.
Great courses (DVD)
ISBN:
9781598032741
1598032747
Alternate title:
Introduction to astronomy [videorecording (DVD)]
Great Courses. Understanding the universe [videorecording (DVD)] : an introduction to astronomy
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Edition:
2nd ed.
Description:
16 videodiscs (2880 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + guide (562 p.).
Notes:
"48 lectures/30 minutes per lecture" x 2 volumes.
Course no. 1810.
Home use only.
Bibliography:
Guide includes bibliographical references (p. 551-555) and supplementary reading list (p. 556-562).
Contents:
Pt. 1. Observing the heavens: Celestial sights for everyone. ; Disc 1. A grand tour of the cosmos. (ca. 32 min.) ; The rainbow connection. (ca. 30 min.) ; Sunrise, sunset. (ca. 32 min.) ; Bright objects in the night sky. (ca. 31 min.) ; Fainter phenomena in the night sky. (ca. 31 min.) ; Our sky through binoculars and telescopes. (ca. 30 min.) -- Disc 2. The celestial sphere. (ca. 33 min.) ; The reason for the seasons. (ca. 31 min.) ; Lunar phases and eerie lunar eclipses. (ca. 31 min.) ; Glorious total solar eclipses. (ca. 31 min.) ; More eclipse tales. (ca. 31 min.) ; Early studies of the solar system. (ca. 29 min.) -
Pt. 2. Disc 3. The geocentric universe. (ca. 30 min.) ; Galileo and the Copernican revolution. (ca. 31 min.) ; Refinements to the heliocentric model. (ca. 31 min.) ; On the shoulders of giants. (ca. 32 min.) ; Surveying space and time. (ca. 31 min.) ; Scale models of the universe. (ca. 31 min.) -- Disc 4. Observing the heavens : Basic concepts and tools. Light: the supreme informant. (ca. 31 min.) ; The wave-particle duality of light. (ca. 30 min.) ; The colors of stars. (ca. 31 min.) ; The fingerprints of atoms. (ca. 31 min.) ; Modern telescopes. (ca. 31 min.) ; A better set of eyes. (ca. 31 min.) -
Pt. 3. Contents of the Universe : Our solar system. Disc 5. Our sun, the nearest star. (ca. 30 min.) ; The Earth, third rock from the sun. (ca. 32 min.) ; Our moon, Earth's nearest neighbor. (ca. 31 min.) ; Mercury and Venus. (ca. 33 min.) ; Of Mars and martians. (ca. 31 min.) ; Jupiter and its amazing moons. (ca. 31 min.) -- Disc 6. Magnificent Saturn. (ca. 30 min.) ; Uranus and Neptune, the small giants. (ca. 30 min.) ; Pluto and its cousins. (ca. 30 min.) ; Asteroids and dwarf planets. (ca. 33 min.) ; Comets: gorgeous pimordial snowballs. (ca. 31 min.) ; Catastrophic collisons. (ca. 31 min.) -
Pt. 4. Disc 7. The formation of planetary systems. (ca. 32 min.) ; Contents of the universe : Other planetary systems. The quest for other planetary systems. (ca. 31 min.) ; Extra-solar planets galore! (ca. 31 min.) ; Life beyond the Earth. (ca. 31 min.) ; The search for extraterrestrials. (ca. 31 min.) ; Special relativity and interstellar travel. (ca. 31 min.) -- Disc 8. Contents of the universe : Stars and their lives. Stars: distant suns. (ca. 32 min.) ; The intrinsic brightnesses of stars. (ca. 30 min.) ; The diverse sizes of stars. (ca. 31 min.) ; Binary stars and stellar masses. (ca. 31 min.) ; Star clusters, ages, and remote distances. (ca. 31 min.) ; How stars shine: nature's nuclear reactors. (ca. 30 min.) -
Pt. 5. Disc 9. Solar neutrinos: probes of the sun's core. (ca. 31 min.) ; Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets. (ca. 31 min.) ; Our sun's briliant future. (ca. 31 min.) ; White dwarfs and nova eruptions. (ca. 31 min.) ; Exploding stars: celestial fireworks. (ca. 31 min.) ; White dwarf supernovae: stealing to explode. (ca. 31 min.) -- Disc 10. Contents of the universe: Stellar explosions and black holes. Core-collapse supernovae: gravity wins. (ca. 31 min.) ; The brightest supernova in nearly 400 years. (ca. 31 min.) ; The corpses of massive stars. (ca. 31 min.) ; Einstein's general theory of relativity. (ca. 32 min.) ; Warping of space and time. (ca. 31 min.) ; Black holes: abandon hope, ye who enter. (ca. 32 min.) -
Pt. 6. Disc 11. The quest for black holes. (ca. 31 min.) ; Imagining the journey to a black hole. (ca. 31 min.) ; Wormholes: gateways to other universes? (ca. 32 min.) ; Quantum physics and black-hole evaporation. (ca. 31 min.) ; Enigmatic gamma-ray bursts. (ca. 31 min.) ; Birth cries of black holes. (ca. 31 min.) -- Disc 12. Contents of the universe : The Milky Way and other galaxies. Our home: the Milky Way Galaxy. (ca. 30 min.) ; Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. (ca. 30 min.) ; Other galaxies: "Island universes". (ca. 30 min.) ; The dark side of matter. (ca. 31 min.) ; Cosmology: The universe as a whole. Cosmic expansion and distant galaxies. Cosmology: the really big picture. (ca. 32 min.) ; Expansion of the universe and the big bang. (ca. 32 min.) -
Pt. 7. Disc 13. Searching for distant galaxies. (ca. 31 min.) ; The evolution of galaxies. (ca. 31 min.) ; Active galaxies and quasars. (ca. 32 min.) ; Cosmic powerhouses of the distant past. (ca. 31; min.) ; Supermassive black holes. (ca. 32 min.) ; Feeding the monster. (ca. 32 min.) -- Disc 14. Cosmology: The universe as a whole. The structure and evolution of the universe. The paradox of the dark night sky. (ca. 32 min.) ; The age of the universe. (ca. 31 min.) ; When geometry is destiny. (ca. 31 min.) ; The mass density of the universe. (ca. 32 min.) ; Einstein's biggest blunder? (ca. 31 min.) ; The afterglow of the big bang. (ca. 31 min.) -
Pt. 8. Disc 15. Ripples in the cosmic background radiation. (ca. 31 min.) ; The stuff of the cosmos. (ca. 32 min.) ; Dark energy: quantum fluctuations? (ca. 31 min.) ; Dark energy: quintessence? (ca. 32 min.) ; Grand unification & theories of everything. (ca. 32 min.) ; Searching for hidden dimensions. (ca. 32 min.) -- Disc 16. Cosmology: The universe as a whole. The birth of the cosmos, and other frontiers. The shape, size, and fate of the universe. (ca. 32 min.) ; In the beginning. (ca. 32 min.) ; The inflationary universe. (ca. 32 min.) ; The ultimate free lunch? (ca. 32 min.) ; A universe of universes. (ca. 32 min.) ; Reflections on life and the cosmos. (ca. 30 min.).
Production:
The Teaching Company ; producer, Zachary H. Rhoades ; Academic content supervisor, Jay Tate ; director, Jon Leven.
Performers:
Lecturer, Professor Alex Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley.
Summary:
Ninety-six lectures, divided into ten sections, are 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. Updated edition integrates discoveries reported in the 2003 course and includes recent findings (through mid-2006).
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Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Science films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
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Teaching Company.
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