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The Complete Cosmos: Discovery Into Deep Space
12 Episodes
~10 min per episode
Overview
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Episodes
12
1
Robots
10 min
A look at our scouts in the Solar System. Probes that trail-blaze on Mars, plunge into Jupiter and land on Saturn's moon Titan.
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2
Where Next?
10 min
The possibility of a spaceport in Earth orbit, the colonisation of the Moon and Mars, the taming of Venus, plus an elevator into space !
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3
Breakthrough!
10 min
From the ancient sky-watchers of Babylon to space-age cosmology, the story of astronomy featuring Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Hubble.
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4
Aurorae and Eclipses
10 min
Taking a look at celestial shows, how the solar wind conjures an aurora, lunar and solar eclipses explained and a recent eclipse of the Sun.
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5
Impact!
10 min
Exploring the threats of comets and asteroids and what would happen if the space rock that slew the dinosaurs hit New York today.
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6
Light Fantastic
10 min
Visible light reveals only part of the Universe. We look at how other wavelengths fill out the picture, from gamma-rays to radio.
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7
Life Quest
10 min
Is there life elsewhere in the Solar System? Could life be sustained on Jupiter's moon Europa or even Saturn's moon Titan in the future?
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8
Milky Way
10 min
Our galaxy explored and light years explained. Looking at the life and death of stars, supernovae and the clouds where stars are born.
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9
Hubble's Eye
10 min
After astronauts fix its faulty optics, the Hubble Space Telescope peers back through time to the depths of the cosmos.
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10
Infinity
10 min
Looking at the structure of the Universe, galaxies, clusters, strands and how we measure to a nearby galaxy and to the farthest quasar.
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11
Big Bang, Big Crunch
10 min
The theory of the Big Bang explained and how from that cataclysmic explosion the Universe continues to expand, but will it stop and reverse?
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12
Black Holes, Dark Matter
10 min
Although invisible, black holes betray their presence, which is the same with dark matter: the missing 90% of the Universe.
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