The life and death of stars
(2014)
Nonfiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/523.1/LIFE
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2014]
©2014
©2014
DESCRIPTION
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (172 pages ; 19 cm.)
ISBN/ISSN
9781629970370 1872, 1629970379
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Lecturer: Professor Keivan G. Stassun, Vaderbilt University
DVD
CONTENTS
Why the stellar life cycle matters --
Star's information messenger --
Measuring the stars with light --
Stellar nurseries --
Gravitational collapse and protostars --
Dynamics of star formation --
Solar systems in the making --
Telescopes-our eyes on the stars --
Mass-the DNA of stars --
Eclipses of stars-truth in the shadows --
Stellar families --
A portarait of our star, the Sun --
E=MC2-energy for a star's life --
Stars in middle age --
Stellar death --
Stellar corpses-diamonds in the sky --
Dying breaths-cepheids and supernovae --
Supernova remnants and galactic geysers --
Stillborn stars --
Dark mystery of the first stars --
Stars as magnets --
Solar storms-the perils of life with a star --
Stellar recipe of life --
A tale of two stars