Radio astronomy
Subtitle: observing the invisible universe
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: The great courses. Science. Astronomy & space science; Great courses (DVD)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781629974781
Subjects: Radio astronomy
Notes: Title from disc labels.

24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.

Course no. 1878.

Course guidebook contains bibliographical references (pages 267-273).

Taught by Felix J. Lockman, Ph. D.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1.; title: Radio astronomy and the invisible universe --; title: Thermal radio emission: the planets --; title: The birth of radio astronomy --; title: The discovery of interstellar hydrogen --; title: Radio telescopes and how they work --; title: Mapping the hydrogen sky -- -- Disc 2.; title: Tour of the Green Bank Observatory --; title: Tour of the Green Bank Telescope --; title: Hydrogen and the structure of galaxies --; title: Pulsars: clocks in space --; title: Pulsars and gravity --; title: Pulsars and the 300-foot telescope -- -- Disc 3.; title: The Big Bang: the oldest radio waves --; title: H II Regions and the birth of stars --; title: Supernovas and the death of stars --; title: Radio stars and early interferometers --; title: Radio source counts --; title: Active galactic nuclei and the VLA -- -- Disc 4.; title: A telescope as big as the earth --; title: Galaxies and their gas --; title: Interstellar molecular clouds --; title: Star formation and ALMA --; title: Interstellar chemistry and life --; title: The future of radio astronomy.