DVD LIBRARY

The Amateur Astronomers Association has created a DVD Library.  The list of disks below will grow as we acquire more of them. You must be a member of the AAA and may borrow only one disk at a time for up to one month. There is no charge. Contact president@aaa.org if you are interested.

Astronomy Magazine’s Infinite Cosmos series:
     Life and Death of a Star -- Forces of Gravity, White Dwarfs, All From the Stars, Explosive Collisions, Failed Stars
     Mars the Red Planet -- So Much Like Mars, Early Speculation, A Closer Look, Life On Mars, Spirit and Opportunity
     The Moon -- Lunar Extremes, Time, Tides and Origins, Lunar Theories, Lunar Samples, Giant Impact Theory
     Jupiter the Giant Planet -- A Churning Ball of Fire, The Red Spot, Secrets of Europa, The Magnetic Field, Listening to Jupiter
     The End of Earth: Deep Space Threats to Our Planet -- Cosmic Threats, Harmful Rocks, Gamma Ray Bursts, Turning Up the Heat, The Big Rip
     Spaceship Earth -- Impacting on Earth, Crashing into Existence, Origins of Life, Complex Life on Land, Ice Caps in Peril
     Saturn: Lord of the Rings -- The Gas Giant, The Mysterious Rings, Exploring Titan, Geysers on Enceladus, Search for Life
     Secrets of the Sun -- Introduction, A Celestial Blockbuster, The Power of Plasma, Forecasting Solar Threats, A Perfect Solar Storm, The Churning Surface of the Sun
     Constellations --  Distance Between Stars, The Changing Night Sky, Astronomy, Companion Stars, Star Motion
     Dark Matter/Dark Energy -- Elusive Dark Matter, The Search for WIMPS, Backbone of the Visible World, Creating Space, Mysteries of the Darkside
     Cosmic Collisions -- Collision Families, Collisions in Our Solar System, Mass Extinction, Permo-Triassic Extinctions, Galaxy Collisions
     Unexplained Mysteries -- Earth's Mass Extinction, Time Travel, Antimatter, Water on Mars, The Big Bang
     To the Moon -- Introduction, Sputnik, Project Mercury, The First Man in Space, First American in Space, JFK's Race to the Moon, Project Gemini, Apollo 1, Saturn V Rocket, Apollo 8, Lunar Excursion Module, Apollo 11, The Eagle has Landed, Apollo 13, Apollo 15, Apollo17
     Alien Planets -- Types of Worlds, Hot Jupiters, Extreme Weather, Strange Worlds, Super Telescopes
     Astrobiology -- History of Life on Earth, Looking for Life on Mars, Plate Tectonics and Saturn's Moons, Our Milky Way Galaxy, Communicating with Aliens
     Supernovas -- Agents of Change, Exploding Stars, Core Collapse, Great Supernovas, Sweeping the Sky
     Apollo13: To the Edge and Back -- Race to the Moon, "Houston, We Have a Problem", The Need for Redundant Systems, Help on the Ground, The Far side of the Moon, Waiting and Enduring, Correcting the Trajectory, Re-Entry
     The Journey to Palomar -- Yerkes Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory, Palomar Observatory (Part 1), Palomar Observatory (Part 2)
     Wildest Weather in the Cosmos -- Motion in the Atmosphere, Winds, Tornados, Rain, Biggest Storms
     Deadly Comets & Meteors (NEW) -- Dangerous Impacts, Icy Bodies, Asteroids and Comets, Jupiter: Planetary Shield, Ongoing Threats

NASA:                 
     NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Images and Handouts 1999-2007
     Cosmic Collisions
     The Dynamic Sun
     Imagine the Universe! -- Cosmic Times, Astronomy Picture of the Day 2008, Imagine the Universe! (grades 7 and up) and Starchild (grades K-8)
     Lunar Nautics -- Welcome to Lunar Nautics, The Moon, Journey to the Moon, On the Moon, Resources, Educator Resources, Glossary
     Space Faring: The Radiation Challenge -- What is Radiation and Where Does it Come From?  Space Radiation and Human Health.  Protection from Space Radiation.

NOVA:
     The Pluto Files
     LRO/LCROSS Edition -- Introduction, Feature, LRO/LCROSS Mission, Extras

Other:
     Exploring Space: Quest for Life
     Starry Night (Demo Version)
     The Sky (Student Edition)

The Learning Company (sample):
     Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution; Black Holes