How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

September 1, 2020
13 min
Season 2020 - Episode 28: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

Season 2020 - Episode 28: How Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?

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Overview

Pin-pricks in the celestial sphere, through which shines the light of heaven? Or gods and heroes looking down from their constellations? Or lights kindled above middle earth by Varda Elbereth and brightened with the dew of the trees of Valinor? Science has long pondered the mysteries of the stars. This is how we finally figured them out.

Episode Information

TV Show

PBS Space Time

Season

Season 2020

Episode Number

28

Air Date

September 1, 2020

Runtime

13 minutes