Product Details

• Actors: Stacy Keach, Peter Thomas (VI), Don Wescott
• Directors: Nova
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: PBS
• DVD Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JJ5F66
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,413 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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MONSTER OF THE MILKY WAY - DVD Movie

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE, WHAT IT IS AIN'T EXACTLY CLEAR, January 4, 2007

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Eric B. Norris (Santa Clara, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NOVA: Monster of the Milky Way (DVD)

The monster of the Milky Way is of course--no, wait for it. But it's big, really big. Bigger than a Buick. How do we know what's there, with all the gas and dust blocking our view of the galaxy center? "Monster of the Milky Way" explains how. My test for Nova programs is how many times I want to watch them. This episode premiered only a few weeks ago yet I've seen it three times already. There's a lot of thought provoking ideas in this episode, including the fate of the Milky Way and our big galactic neighbor 2.2 million light years away, Mr. Huge Andromeda Galaxy, M31. I don't want to spoil the "plot" of this episode because at its heart it is a detective story, but it follows astronomers as they try to discern just what all that mass at the center of the Milky consists of, and what that means for the future of our galactic neighborhood. This episode is one of the better ones about astronomy. The monster at the heart of the Milky Way and its brethren are the subject of cutting-edge ideas in cosmology these days, and this fresh Nova program takes you right into the current research.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scarry science, October 17, 2007

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Nikolai Starinski (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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I am a physicist and this program was quite interesting for me. Difficult research is presented in very simple manner and can be understood by almost everyone. Some facts were new to me and I truly enjoyed watching it. I would give it 5 stars, but there is something on the back of my mind - at the end I found it a little bit too simple in terms of visual contents.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Monster of the Milky Way, September 22, 2007

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Barbara A. Bates (Orange City, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This is just terrific in every way. The provider was swift and professional and the video itself is amazing. The NOVA group continues to take complex ideas and concepts easier for the lay person to understand. Truly GREAT.