The Media Library of Genesee Valley BOCES

Viewers are introduced to ancient astronomers, telescopes, observatories, and space exploration, while discovering facts about planets, orbits, gravity, revolution, and rotation. Also features discussions about the sun, comets, asteroids, and meteors

Reviews the characteristics of the inner planets and explores the features of the outer planets in greater detail. Images from the Hubble Telescope illustrate the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter, Saturn's rings, the tilted rings of Uranus, and the frozen features of Neptune and Pluto. Discusses the Milky Way, ellipse, revolution, Asteroid Belt, asteroids, moons, Titan, atmosphere, methane, and hydrogen. (Available in VHS and DVD formats. Select title AND format when ordering.)

Explores the planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Discusses the nebular hypothesis, general layout of the solar system, sun, nuclear fusion, orbit inertia, and ellipse. ( Available in VHS and DVD format. Select title AND format when ordering.)

Describes the characteristics of the earth, sun, and moon. Concepts and vocabulary covered in the program include: axis, rotation, revolution, compass, auroras, northern lights, magnetic field, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, winter solstice, spring equinox, moon, waxing, waning, full moon, new moon, first quarter, and last quarter. Available in VHS and DVD formats. Select title AND format when ordering

Explores some of the common constellations of our universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and meteors and comets. Discusses spiral galaxy, elliptical galaxy, barred spiral galaxy, light-year, apparent magnitude, nebula, white dwarf, giant star, neutron star, supernova, prominence, sunspots, and solar flares. (Available in VHS or DVD format. Select title AND format when ordering.)

When the solar system was formed, 3 other rocky worlds like earth were formed, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, yet they are very different from the earth. A virtual tour through them reveals their features and how the solar system may have been formed

Travel with the Hubble Space Telescope as it travels through the galaxy and helps unlock the mysteries of the universe. Look at dying stars and the birth of new ones

Looks at the characteristics and formation of stars in the universe. Where did they come from, what happens to them when they die. Discusses the many types of stars, the stars closest to Earth, and how astronomers use light as a fingerprint to give them clues about stars

Looks at the vastness of the universe and how astronomers have revealed some of its secrets. Discusses the speed of light as a measurement for distances in outer space, the Big Bang Theory, and the ever-expanding dimensions of outer space

Examines the smallest of the planets - Mercury - whose surface is hot enough to melt lead, and Venus, the brightest object in the night sky. Discusses the spacecraft Mariner 10, which gave us the first pictures of Mercury and Venus