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The Complete Cosmos

Discovery Into Deep Space

12 episodes · 2h 0m in all

Episodes

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    1. Robots

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    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?

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    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!

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    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

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    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!

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Although invisible, black holes betray their presence, which is the same with dark matter: the missing 90% of the Universe.

The Complete Cosmos Discovery Into Deep Space: quick answers

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Discovery Into Deep Space of The Complete Cosmos has 12 episodes, about 2 hours in total.

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