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1 online resource (96 video files (approximately 3001 min.)) : sd., col. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Contents |
Episode 1 A Grand Tour of the Cosmos Episode 2 The Rainbow Connection Episode 3 Sunrise, Sunset Episode 4 Bright Objects in the Night Sky Episode 5 Fainter Phenomena in the Night Sky Episode 6 Our Sky through Binoculars and Telescopes Episode 7 The Celestial Sphere Episode 8 The Reason for the Seasons Episode 9 Lunar Phases and Eerie Lunar Eclipses Episode 10 Glorious Total Solar Eclipses Episode 11 More Eclipse Tales Episode 12 Early Studies of the Solar System Episode 13 The Geocentric Universe Episode 14 Galileo and the Copernican Revolution Episode 15 Refinements to the Heliocentric Model Episode 16 On the Shoulders of Giants Episode 17 Surveying Space and Time Episode 18 Scale Models of the Universe Episode 19 Light-The Supreme Informant Episode 20 The Wave-Particle Duality of Light Episode 21 The Colors of Stars Episode 22 The Fingerprints of Atoms Episode 23 Modern Telescopes Episode 24 A Better Set of Eyes Episode 25 Our Sun, the Nearest Star Episode 26 The Earth, Third Rock from the Sun Episode 27 Our Moon, Earth's Nearest Neighbor Episode 28 Mercury and Venus Episode 29 Of Mars and Martians Episode 30 Jupiter and Its Amazing Moons Episode 31 Magnificent Saturn Episode 32 Uranus and Neptune, the Small Giants Episode 33 Pluto and Its Cousins Episode 34 Asteroids and Dwarf Planets Episode 35 Comets-Gorgeous Primordial Snowballs Episode 36 Catastrophic Collisions Episode 37 The Formation of Planetary Systems Episode 38 The Quest for Other Planetary Systems Episode 39 Extra-Solar Planets Galore! Episode 40 Life Beyond the Earth Episode 41 The Search for Extraterrestrials Episode 42 Special Relativity and Interstellar Travel Episode 43 Stars-Distant Suns Episode 44 The Intrinsic Brightnesses of Stars Episode 45 The Diverse Sizes of Stars Episode 46 Binary Stars and Stellar Masses Episode 47 Star Clusters, Ages, and Remote Distances Episode 48 How Stars Shine-Nature's Nuclear Reactors Episode 49 Solar Neutrinos-Probes of the Sun's Core Episode 50 Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets Episode 51 Our Sun's Brilliant Future Episode 52 White Dwarfs and Nova Eruptions Episode 53 Exploding Stars-Celestial Fireworks! Episode 54 White Dwarf Supernovae-Stealing to Explode Episode 55 Core-Collapse Supernovae-Gravity Wins Episode 56 The Brightest Supernova in Nearly 400 Years Episode 57 The Corpses of Massive Stars Episode 58 Einstein's General Theory of Relativity Episode 59 Warping of Space and Time Episode 60 Black Holes-Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Episode 61 The Quest for Black Holes Episode 62 Imagining the Journey to a Black Hole Episode 63 Wormholes-Gateways to Other Universes? Episode 64 Quantum Physics and Black-Hole Evaporation Episode 65 Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts Episode 66 Birth Cries of Black Holes Episode 67 Our Home-The Milky Way Galaxy Episode 68 Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy Episode 69 Other Galaxies-"Island Universes" Episode 70 The Dark Side of Matter Episode 71 Cosmology-The Really Big Picture Episode 72 Expansion of the Universe and the Big Bang Episode 73 Searching for Distant Galaxies Episode 74 The Evolution of Galaxies Episode 75 Active Galaxies and Quasars Episode 76 Cosmic Powerhouses of the Distant Past Episode 77 Supermassive Black Holes Episode 78 Feeding the Monster Episode 79 The Paradox of the Dark Night Sky Episode 80 The Age of the Universe Episode 81 When Geometry Is Destiny Episode 82 The Mass Density of the Universe Episode 83 Einstein's Biggest Blunder? Episode 84 The Afterglow of the Big Bang Episode 85 Ripples in the Cosmic Background Radiation Episode 86 The Stuff of the Cosmos Episode 87 Dark Energy-Quantum Fluctuations? Episode 88 Dark Energy-Quintessence? Episode 89 Grand Unification & Theories of Everything Episode 90 Searching for Hidden Dimensions Episode 91 The Shape, Size, and Fate of the Universe Episode 92 In the Beginning Episode 93 The Inflationary Universe Episode 94 The Ultimate Free Lunch? Episode 95 A Universe of Universes Episode 96 Reflections on Life and the Cosmos. |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by The Great Courses. |
| Cast |
Alex Filippenko. |
| Summary |
Enjoy a deep, yet nontechnical description, of modern astronomy, including the structure and evolution of planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe as a whole. |
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Rated TVPG. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Added Author |
hoopla digital.
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| Music No. |
MWT16359763 |
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