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The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved
As the Earth grapples with the effects of global warming, science has increasingly looked to outer space for answers to the glaring threats facing our world. Are there other planets in the Universe with the unique ability to support life--or is there truly no place like home? In 13 awe-inspiring programs, THE UNIVERSE ventures into the uncharted territory of outer space.
320IMDb 8.7200714 episodes
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- S1 E1 - Secrets Of The Sun
May 28, 200744minTV-14There are billions of stars in the Universe, but one alone dominates our celestial neighborhood, the Sun. It's so large that within its boundaries you could fit one million Earths.Available to buy - S1 E2 - Mars: The Red Planet
June 4, 200744minTV-14It's home to the largest volcano in the Solar System...and a colossal, boulder-strewn valley that would make the Grand Canyon look like a streambed.Available to buy - S1 E3 - The End Of The Earth: Deep Space Threats To Our Planet
June 11, 200744minTV-14The Earth has become a dangerous place to live in the Universe. It's only a matter of time before a cosmic force will annihilate the planet.Available to buy - S1 E4 - Jupiter: The Giant Planet
June 18, 200744minTV-14Half a billion miles from earth exists a mini solar system of over 60 moons rotating around a powerful planet of gas. It's flowing colors and spots hold strange beauty, but contain violent storms and jet streams.Available to buy - S1 E5 - The Moon
June 25, 200744minTV-14It's so close...yet so far away. For thousands of years, mankind has found comfort in its presence. It's been a lantern for nighttime travelers...a timekeeper for farmers...and a location finder for sailors at sea.Available to buy - S1 E6 - Spaceship Earth
July 9, 200744minTV-14Take a high performance ride through the formation of the third planet from the Sun, Earth. A survivor of one of the most violent "neighborhoods" in the universe, learn how earth was created and discover what creatures hold clues to how life began.Available to buy - S1 E7 - The Inner Planets: Mercury & Venus
July 16, 200744minTV-14Scorched by their proximity to the sun, Mercury and Venus are hostile worlds; one gouged with craters from cosmic collisions and the other a vortex of sulfur, carbon dioxide and acid rain.Available to buy - S1 E8 - Saturn: Lord Of The Rings
July 23, 200744minTV-14Are the rings of Saturn a real celestial phenomenon or merely a cosmic Illusion? Technology allows the experts to get closer to the furthest planet visible to the naked eye. Old questions are answered and new ones arise.Available to buy - S1 E9 - Alien Galaxies
July 30, 200744minTV-14To know our place in the universe take a look far, far away to the realm of Alien Galaxies. Our galaxy is one of hundreds of billions in the universe. The Milky Way consists of more than a billion stars, our sun being only one of them.Available to buy - S1 E10 - Life And Death Of A Star
August 6, 200744minTV-14Ignited by the power of the atom, burning with light, heat and wrath, stars are anything but peaceful. They collide, devour each other, and explode in enormous supernovas--the biggest explosions in the Universe.Available to buy - S1 E11 - The Outer Planets
August 13, 200744minTV-14New discoveries regarding the Outer Planets are creating a fundamental rethinking of our solar system. Uranus is a toxic combination of hydrogen, helium and methane.Available to buy - S1 E12 - The Most Dangerous Place In The Universe
August 20, 200744minTV-14Take a tour of the cosmic hot zones--black holes, galaxy mergers, gamma ray bursts and magnetars. Super massive black holes can literally "lasso" the Earth out of the solar system.Available to buy - S1 E13 - Search For ET
August 27, 200744minTV-14In a galaxy filled with a billion stars, in a universe filled with a hundred billion galaxies--are we alone? SETI--the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence--is a privately funded project using radio telescopes.Available to buy - S1 E14 - Beyond the Big Bang
September 3, 20071 h 29 minTV-14It all began inside a violent, blinding explosion that threw everything into chaos. Long after, our greatest thinkers have peered into that chaos in search of order, logic and the answers to where we began.Available to buy
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