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A Visual Guide to the Universe with the Smithsonian

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Overview

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.

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

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