Produced in partnership with the Smithsonian, these 18 lavishly illustrated lectures take you from our solar system to the farthest reaches of space and time.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Probing the Cosmos from Space
- 02: The Magnetic Beauty of the Active Sun
- 03: Mars-Water and the Search for Life
- 04: Vesta and the Asteroid Belt
- 05: Saturn-The Rings of Enchantment
- 06: The Ice Moons Europa and Enceladus
- 07: The Search for Other Earths
- 08: The Swan Nebula
- 09: The Seven Sisters and Their Stardust Veil
- 10: Future Supernova, Eta Carinae
- 11: Runaway Star, Zeta Ophiuchi
- 12: The Center of the Milky Way
- 13: The Andromeda Galaxy
- 14: Hubble's Galaxy Zoo
- 15: The Brightest Quasar
- 16: The Dark Side of the Bullet Cluster
- 17: The Cosmic Reach of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 18: The Afterglow of the Big Bang
Taught by
David M. Meyer