2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) digital optical stereo Dolby digital 2.0 videodisc NTSC video file DVD video region 1 polychrome
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: NR
Other Title:
Exploring the Milky Way
Notes:
Title from disc label "Course no. 1889." Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) Lecturer: David M. Meyer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University DVD In English ; closed-captioned
Contents:
Disc 1. Lecture 1. The unseen face of our spiral galaxy ; 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
