000 01205nkc a22001697a 4500
005 20210121091327.0
008 210121b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
040 _cOC
082 _aAV 520
_bD611 2005
245 _aAstronomy/
_cDiscovery Channel Inc.--
260 _aUnited States:
_bDiscovery Communications,
_cc2005
300 _a1 videodisc (approximately 46 min.):
_bsound, color;
_c4 3/4 in.
505 _gThe solar system -- The moon -- The stars.
520 _aDetailing the history of what may be the oldest science, this program explores 13 of its crucial benchmarks: ancient awareness that the planets move; Copernican cosmology; Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion; Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons; Edmund Halley's comet prediction; William and Carolyn Herschel's galactic mapping; Einstein's General Theory of Relativity; Edwin Hubble's proof that the universe is expanding; Karl Jansky's discovery of galactic radio waves; Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson's detection of the cosmic microwave background; observations of gamma ray bursts; the discovery of extrasolar planets; and the 'big rip' theory.
650 0 _911045
_aAstronomy. Human biology.
942 _2ddc
_cCDDVD
999 _c28233
_d28233