The Misplaced Giant Planets
(2016, original release: 2015)
Nonfiction
eCourse
Details
PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2015
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
1198810
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In Process Record
Investigate 51 Pegasi b, the first planet detected around a Sun-like star, which shocked astronomers by being roughly the size of Jupiter but in an orbit much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. Probe the strange characteristics of these “hot Jupiters,” which have turned up around many stars
Title from title frames
Film
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2015
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English