Product Details

• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mpi Home Video
• VHS Release Date: April 30, 1997
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• ASIN: 6304469098
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,115 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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From the back cover

The Astronomers is a six-part series that explores the lives and works of scientists around the globe who are revolutionizing our knowledge of the universe. The series, narrated by noted actor Richard Chamberlain, goes to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of black holes, quasars, dark matter, gravity waves, stars and evidence of planets outside our solar system. These celestial phenomena are explored through the perspectives of the men and women all over the world whose jobs render them responsible for uncovering the secrets of the cosmos. Further, The Astronomers takes a uniquely humanizing approach to science programming, focusing not only on the professional achievements of the scientists, but on their personal lives as well. Stardust. Stars, like people, are born, they live and they die. Stardust features several astronomers investigating all three stages and the mysteries that surround the life cycle of the stars. Howard University's Benjamin Peery strives to impart the thrill of scientific discovery to a new generation of astronomers. Leo Blitz, professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, investigates the birth process of stars. Cornell University's Nobel Prize--winning physicist Hans Bethe explains his 1938 theory whereby stars derive their power from the transformation of matter into energy. And in Australia, Mike Dopita, Richard Manchester and David Allen study the aftermath of a 1987 supernova--the closest to Earth to occur in four centuries--for information about the death of stars.