Lecturer: David M. Meyer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.
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.
Bibliography
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163).
Summary
"Check out the latest images the Hubble Space Telescope has captured of our Milky Way Galaxy--and beyond."--Container.