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Introductory Astronomy
Available on: Video Download
Introduces fundamentals of astronomy.
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Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration Symposium
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
Launched in July, 2006, SESE — pronounced 'see-see' — is a bold initiative to combine science and engineering research and education in order to achieve a better understanding of the universe and, especially, our home world.
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A Theory of Everything
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
How did the universe start? What are we and where are we going? If we had a "Theory of Everything", we should be able to answer these questions.
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Aircraft Systems Engineering
by Jeffrey Hoffman
Available on: Digital Download | Video Download
16.885J offers a holistic view of the aircraft as a system, covering: basic systems engineering; cost and weight estimation; basic aircraft performance; safety and reliability; lifecycle topics; aircraft subsystems; risk analysis and management; and system realization.
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Chandra X-ray Observatory Podcasts
by Chandra EPO Chandra X-ray Center
Available on: Digital Download
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, operating since 1999,
studies black holes, exploded stars, and mysterious matter
that shine in the high-energy Universe.
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The Birth and Death of Stars
by Walter Lewin
Available on: Online Video
We know that some stars exist because we can see them with our own eyes. In this lecture Walter Lewin provides illuminating evidence of stars we cannot see.
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Timothy Ferris: Lannan Readings & Conversations
by Timothy Ferris
Available on: Online Audio
Timothy Ferris, called "the best popular science writer in the English language" by The Christian Science Monitor, is the author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, The Mind's Sky, Galaxies and other best selling books on astronomy, physics, and the history of philosophy of science.
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Space Exploration: The Next 100 Years
by Dava Newman
Available on: Online Video
High hopes meet high frustration in this panel, whose participants collectively yearn for a new vision to guide our space program.
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The Universe is a Strange Place
by Frank Wilczek
Available on: Online Video
Perhaps the universe is not so much strange as brimming with lovely paradox. The search for such beauty seems to lie at the heart of Frank Wilczek’s work.
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Life in Space
by Helen Sharman
Available on: Online Video
Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut, gives a vibrant account of her personal experience of life in space using models and film…
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Cosmos and Creator
by Guillermo Gonzalez
Available on: Digital Download
Over the past hundred years, scientific understanding of the Cosmos has changed tremendously, including the notion that the universe may have had a "beginning."
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Tick, Tick, Tick Pulsating Star
by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Available on: Online Video
The discovery of pulsars, neutron stars which form when massive stars explode (supernovae), took astronomers by surprise.
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The Eagle Has Landed (1969)
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film tells the story of the historic first landing of men on the Moon in July, 1969.
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Planet Mars (1979)
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film discusses what had been learned about the planet Mars from Earth...
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Seeds of Discovery (1970)
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film is an introduction to planetary exploration and scientific satellite research planned for the 1970s.
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The Knowledge Bank (1971)
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film shows how the tools of research in near-earth space have progressed since Benjamin Franklin's time to the sounding rockets and unmanned earth-orbiting satellites of today.
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Reaching for the Stars
by Sally Ride
Available on: Online Video
Dr. Sally Ride, first woman in space and Professor of Physics at UC San Diego.
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Anybody Out There?
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
Is there life out there? Either on other worlds, deep space, or even deep in our oceans that we haven't encountered yet?
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Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man (1975)
by Carl Sagan
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film is an edited version of a symposium held at Boston University on November 20, 1972 that explores the implications of the possible existence of extraterrestrial life within the galaxy and the universe.
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Stellar Conversations
by Rocky Alvey
Available on: Digital Download
Stellar Conversations features casual conversations with astronomers from Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory geared to a broad audience.
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New Frontiers in Astronomy
by Alberto Conti
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
A revolution is now underway in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The next decade will witness the completion of massive, wide-area, multicolor imaging and spectroscopic surveys of the local and distant Universe.
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Assignment
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft...
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From Space to Energy
by Peter H. Diamandis
Available on: Online Video
What does it take to achieve the impossible?
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Who's Out There? (1975)
by Orson Welles
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film explores the new view of extraterrestrial life now emerging from the results of probes to the planets.
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America in Space - The First Decade (1968)
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
This film provides a 10-year history of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) role in the exploration of space.
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