Great courses (DVD). Science

Title from disc label

"Check out the latest images the Hubble Space Telescope has captured of our Milky Way Galaxy--and beyond."--Container

"Course number 1889."

Twelve lectures of thirty minutes each

Lecturer: David M. Meyer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University

DVD

In English ; closed-captioned

Disc 1. Lecture 1.

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.

Interstellar echo of a variable star ;

Lecture 8.

Tracing the veil of a prehistoric supernova ;

Lecture 9.

Stellar vortex at the galactic center ;

Lecture 10.

Galactic halo's largest star cluster ;

Lecture 11.

Satellite galaxies: the Magellanic clouds ;

Lecture 12.

Future of the Milky Way