| Description |
2 videodiscs (360 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 59 pages ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
Great courses (DVD).
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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| Performer |
Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each, by David M. Meyer, professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Lecture 1. The rationale for a space telescope ; Lecture 2. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter ; Lecture 3. The Sagittarius star cloud ; Lecture 4. The star factory inside the Eagle Nebula ; Lecture 5. The Cat's Eye Nebula--a stellar demise ; Lecture 6. The Crab nebula--a supernova's aftermath. Disc 2. Lecture 7. The Sombrero Galaxy--an island universe ; Lecture 8. Hubble's view of galaxies near and far ; Lecture 9. The Antennae galaxies--a cosmic collision ; Lecture 10. Abell 2218--a massiver gravitational lens ; Lecture 11. The Hubble ultra deep field ; Lecture 12. Hubble's legacy and beyond. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
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Space telescopes.
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Cosmology.
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Astronomy.
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| Added Author |
Meyer, David Michael, 1958-
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598037218 |
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9781598037210 |
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