Understanding the universe an introduction to astronomy

9781598032741
1598032747

Second edition

16 videodiscs : sound, color ; 12 cm
polychrome
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optical
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DVD video

Introduction to astronomy

96 lectures, 30 min. each
Course no. 1810
Lectures delivered by Alex Filippenko
DVD

Pt. 1. Disc 1. A grand tour of the cosmos The rainbow connection Sunrise, sunset Bright objects in the night sky Fainter phenomena in the night sky Our sky through binoculars and telescopes
Disc 2. The celestial sphere The reason for the seasons Lunar phases and eerie lunar eclipses Glorious total solar eclipses More eclipse tales Early studies of the solar system
Pt. 2. Disc 3. The geocentric universe Galileo and the Copernican revolution Refinements to the heliocentric model On the shoulders of giants Surveying space and time Scale models of the universe
Disc 4. Light: the supreme informant The wave-particle duality of light The colors of stars The fingerprints of atoms Modern telescopes A better set of eyes
Pt. 3. Disc 5. Our sun, the nearest star The Earth, third rock from the sun Our moon, Earth's nearest neighbor Mercury and Venus Of Mars and martians Jupiter and its amazing moons
Disc 6. Magnificent Saturn Uranus and Neptune, the small giants Pluto and its cousins Asteroids and dwarf planets Comets: gorgeous pimordial snowballs Catastrophic collisons
Pt. 4. Disc 7. The formation of planetary systems The quest for other planetary systems Extra-solar planets galore Life beyond the Earth The search for extraterrestrials Special relativity and interstellar travel
Disc 8. Stars: distant suns The intrinsic brightnesses of stars The diverse sizes of stars Binary stars and stellar masses Star clusters, ages, and remote distances How stars shine: nature's nuclear reactors
Pt. 5. Disc 9. Solar neutrinos: probes of the sun's core Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets Our sun's briliant future White dwarfs and nova eruptions Exploding stars: celestial fireworks White dwarf supernovae: stealing to explode
Disc 10. Core-collapse supernovae: gravity wins The brightest supernova in nearly 400 years The corpses of massive stars Einstein's general theory of relativitiy Warping of space and time Black holes: abandon hope, ye who enter
Pt. 6. Disc 11. The quest for black holes Imagining the journey to a black hole Wormholes: gateways to other universes? Quantum physics and black-hole evaporation Enigmatic gamma-ray bursts Birth cries of black holes
Disc 12. Our home: the Milky Way Galaxy Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy Other galaxies: "Island universes" The dark side of matter Cosmology: the really big picture Expansion of the universe and the big bang
Pt. 7. Disc 13. Searching for distant galaxies The evolution of galaxies Active galaxies and quasars Cosmic powerhouses of the distant past Supermassive black holes Feeding the monster
Disc 14. The paradox of the dark night sky The age of the universe When geometry is destiny The mass density of the universe Einstein's biggest blunder? The afterglow of the big bang
Pt. 8. Disc 15. Ripples in the cosmic background radiation The stuff of the cosmos Dark energy: quantum fluctuations? Dark energy: quintessence? Grand unification & theories of everything Searching for hidden dimensions
Disc 16. The shape, size, and fate of the universe In the beginning The inflationary universe The ultimate free lunch? A universe of universes Reflections on life and the cosmos

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Filippenko, Alexei V
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