Experiencing Hubble: Exploring the Milky Way
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Explore the Milky Way galaxy with the Hubble Space Telescope and a prominent astronomer.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Unseen Face of Our Spiral Galaxy
- 02: Viewing the Galaxy through a Comet
- 03: A Cloud of Stardust: The Horsehead Nebula
- 04: A Star Awakens: The Jets of Herbig-Haro 24
- 05: A Star Cluster Blossoms: Westerlund 2
- 06: An Interstellar Cavity: The Bubble Nebula
- 07: The Interstellar Echo of a Variable Star
- 08: Tracing the Veil of a Prehistoric Supernova
- 09: The Stellar Vortex at the Galactic Center
- 10: The Galactic Halo’s Largest Star Cluster
- 11: Satellite Galaxies: The Magellanic Clouds
- 12: The Future of the Milky Way
Taught by
David M. Meyer
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