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Understanding the universe: an introduction to astronomy

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c2007

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2nd ed

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English

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16 videodiscs (2880 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 562 p. ; 19 cm.)

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This series of lectures is a nontechnical description of the main concepts, methods, and discoveries in astronomy--in depth--from the constellations drawn by the ancients, to the latest reports from planetary probes in our Solar System. All of the material is integrated so that one topic builds on another to develop the conceptual tools that allow exploration of the Universe. The Solar System leads naturally to the investigation of planets around other stars and the possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos, while atmospheric phenomena introduce the subject of light, the key to unraveling the mysteries of stars and galaxies. Includes recent findings (through mid-2006).

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Part I: Disc 1. Lecture 1 A grand tour of the cosmos ; Lecture 2 Rainbow connection ; Lecture 3 Sunrise, sunset ; Lecture 4 Bright objects in the night sky ; Lecture 5 Fainter phenomena in the night sky ; Lecture 6 Our sky through binoculars and telescopes --

Disc 2. Lecture 7 Celestial sphere ; Lecture 8 Reason for the seasons ; Lecture 9 Lunar phases and eerie lunar eclipses ; Lecture 10 Glorious total solar eclipses ; Lecture 11 More eclipse tales ; Lecture 12 Early studies of the solar system.

Part II: Disc 3. Lecture 13 Geocentric universe ; Lecture 14 Galileo and the Copernican revolution ; Lecture 15 Refinements to the heliocentric model ; Lecture 16 On the shoulders of giants ; Lecture 17 Surveying space and time ; Lecture 18 Scale models of the universe --

Disc 4. Lecture 19 Light: The supreme informant ; Lecture 20 Wave-particle duality of light ; Lecture 21 Colors of stars ; Lecture 22 Fingerprints of atoms ; Lecture 23 Modern telescopes ; Lecture 24 A better set of eyes.

Part III: Disc 5. Lecture 25 Our sun, the nearest star ; Lecture 26 Earth, third rock from the sun ; Lecture 27 Our moon, Earth's nearest neighbor ; Lecture 28 Mercury and Venus ; Lecture 29 Of Mars and Martians ; Lecture 30 Jupiter and its amazing moons --

Disc 6. Lecture 31 Magnificent Saturn ; Lecture 32 Uranus and Neptune, the small giants ; Lecture 33 Pluto and its cousins ; Lecture 34 Asteroids and dwarf planets ; Lecture 35 Comets: Gorgeous primordial snowballs ; Lecture 36 Catastrophic collisions.

Part IV: Disc 7. Lecture 37 Formation of planetary systems ; Lecture 38 Quest for other planetary systems ; Lecture 39 Extra-solar planets galore ; Lecture 40 Life beyond the Earth ; Lecture 41 Search for extraterrestrials ; Lecture 42 Special relativity and interstellar travel --

Disc 8. Lecture 43 Stars: Distant suns ; Lecture 44 Intrinsic brightnesses of stars ; Lecture 45 Diverse sizes of stars ; Lecture 46 Binary stars and stellar masses ; Lecture 47 Star clusters, ages, and remote distances ; Lecture 48 How stars shine: Nature's nuclear reactors.

Part V: Disc 9. Lecture 49 Solar neutrinos: Probes of the sun's core ; Lecture 50 Brown dwarfs and free-floating planets ; Lecture 51 Our sun's brilliant future ; Lecture 52 White dwarfs and nova eruptions ; Lecture 53 Exploding stars: Celestial fireworks! ; Lecture 54 White dwarf supernovae: Stealing to explode --

Disc 10. Lecture 55 Core-collapse supernovae: Gravity wins ; Lecture 56 Brightest supernova in nearly 400 years ; Lecture 57 Corpses of massive stars ; Lecture 58 Einstein's general theory of relativity ; Lecture 59 Warping of space and time ; Lecture 60 Black holes: Abandon hope, ye who enter.

Part VI: Disc 11. Lecture 61 Quest for black holes ; Lecture 62 Imagining the journey to a black hole ; Lecture 63 Wormholes: Gateways to other universes? ; Lecture 64 Quantum physics and black-hole evaporation ; Lecture 65 Enigmatic gamma-ray bursts ; Lecture 66 Birth cries of black holes --

Disc 12. Lecture 67 Our home: The Milky Way galaxy ; Lecture 68 Structure of the Milky Way galaxy ; Lecture 69 Other galaxies: "Island universes" ; Lecture 70 Dark side of matter ; Lecture 71 Cosmology: The really big picture ; Lecture 72 Expansion of the universe and the big bang.

Part VII: Disc 13. Lecture 73 Searching for distant galaxies ; 74 Evolution of galaxies ; Lecture 75 Active galaxies and quasars ; Lecture 76 Cosmic powerhouses of the distant past ; Lecture 77 Supermassive black holes ; Lecture 78 Feeding the monster --

Disc 14. Lecture 79 Paradox of the dark night sky ; Lecture 80 Age of the universe ; Lecture 81 When geometry is destiny ; Lecture 82 Mass density of the universe ; Lecture 83 Einstein's biggest blunder? ; Lecture 84 Afterglow of the big bang.

Part VIII: Disc 15. Lecture 85 Ripples in the cosmic background radiation ; Lecture 86 Stuff of the cosmos ; Lecture 87 Dark energy: Quantum fluctuations? ; Lecture 88 Dark energy: Quintessence? ; Lecture 89 Grand unification & theories of everything ; Lecture 90 Searching for hidden dimensions --

Disc 16. Lecture 91 Shape, size, and fate of the universe ; Lecture 92 In the beginning ; Lecture 93 Inflationary universe ; Lecture 94 Ultimate free lunch? ; Lecture 95 A universe of universes ; Lecture 96 Reflections on life and the cosmos.

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Leven, Jon
Filippenko, Alexei V
Rhoades, Zachary H
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9781598032741

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Big bang theory
Black holes (Astronomy)
Comets
Copernicus, Nicolaus, -- 1473-1543
Cosmology
Dark energy (Astronomy)
Eclipses
Einstein, Albert, -- 1879-1955
Galaxies
Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642
General relativity (Physics)
Light
Milky Way
Planets
Solar system
Stars
Sun
Supernovae
Telescopes

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Dark energy (Astronomy)
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