YoVDO

A Visual Guide to the Universe with the Smithsonian

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Astronomy Courses Extraterrestrial Life Courses Space Exploration Courses Celestial Bodies Courses Observational Astronomy Courses

Course Description

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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