Discovery Into Deep Space
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- S2E1
Robots
10mA look at our scouts in the Solar System. Probes that trail-blaze on Mars, plunge into Jupiter and land on Saturn's moon Titan.
- S2E2
Where Next?
10mThe possibility of a spaceport in Earth orbit, the colonisation of the Moon and Mars, the taming of Venus, plus an elevator into space !
- S2E3
Breakthrough!
10mFrom the ancient sky-watchers of Babylon to space-age cosmology, the story of astronomy featuring Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Hubble.
- S2E4
Aurorae and Eclipses
10mTaking a look at celestial shows, how the solar wind conjures an aurora, lunar and solar eclipses explained and a recent eclipse of the Sun.
- S2E5
Impact!
10mExploring the threats of comets and asteroids and what would happen if the space rock that slew the dinosaurs hit New York today.
- S2E6
Light Fantastic
10mVisible light reveals only part of the Universe. We look at how other wavelengths fill out the picture, from gamma-rays to radio.
- S2E7
Life Quest
10mIs 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?
- S2E8
Milky Way
10mOur galaxy explored and light years explained. Looking at the life and death of stars, supernovae and the clouds where stars are born.
- S2E9
Hubble's Eye
10mAfter astronauts fix its faulty optics, the Hubble Space Telescope peers back through time to the depths of the cosmos.
- S2E10
Infinity
10mLooking at the structure of the Universe, galaxies, clusters, strands and how we measure to a nearby galaxy and to the farthest quasar.
- S2E11
Big Bang, Big Crunch
10mThe theory of the Big Bang explained and how from that cataclysmic explosion the Universe continues to expand, but will it stop and reverse?
- S2E12
Black Holes, Dark Matter
10mAlthough invisible, black holes betray their presence, which is the same with dark matter: the missing 90% of the Universe.