universe Documentaries
Are We Alone in the Universe?
The search for life on other worlds has been enduring for more than 50 years; fore fronted by SETI and Dr Frank Drake. The chance of life existing on other worlds is something that seems almost to be certain as there are billions of planets in our galaxy alone and there are billions of galaxies[...]
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell: In this episode of Cosmos, Carl Sagan pays particular attention to the life of comets and asteroids, whose fate often inevitably ends in destruction. He then goes on to look at Earths sister planet Venus and despite striking correlations with Earth, is an extremely hostile and volca[...]
Harmony of the Worlds
Harmony of the Worlds: In the third episode of Carl Sagan's groundbreaking series Cosmos; we take a look at the long and intertwined history of astrology and astronomy; and how after centuries of being regarded as one of the same, have now become distinctly separate. Sagan takes us to the b[...]
The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
“The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean” is the first episode in what is regarded as the great educational series of all time. The cosmos is way beyond normal human understanding and we are only at the tip of the iceberg in our quest for knowledge. There were many things that humans have learnt[...]
The Final Frontier
For thousands of years humans have wanted to know what is out there in the night sky. Gathering an understanding of our place in the cosmos seems to be a fundamental part of human nature and in the last few hundred years we have made discoveries in leaps and bounds. Thousands of years ago people rel[...]
hunting the edge of space
NOVA presents hunting the edge of space. from 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 after the big bang when space expanded rapidly, through the formation of basic elements 3 minutes after the big bang to the birth of the sun 5,000,000,000 years before today and beyond. We as a species are alw[...]
Universe or Multiverse - Quantum Physics
Are we living in a universe which is finite? If so where does it end and what is beyond that? In this documentary which is based on the book “the fabric of the cosmos”, we explore this incredibly deep and complex theory.
Wonders of the Solar System - Order out of chaos
At the time of the big bang the universe was incredibly uniform and some what perfectly distributed. Over time things in the universe go from an ordered state to a disordered one, thats just the nature behind the physics which drives the world we live in. In this documentary Professor Brian Cox expl[...]
Cosmic monsters
Cosmic Monsters: Exploring the most brizarre phenominon that we currently know of in the cosmos. the black hole. There are potentially thousands of them in the Milky way galaxy alone, however it is the one at our galactic center scientists are most interested in, which is simply massive. At ove[...]
Brian Cox Wonders of the Universe - Destiny
Why are we here and where do we come from? Brian Cox explores this fundamental question in this documentary. From the beginning of the universe around 13.7 billion years ago until now, how have we arrived at this moment in time? More to the point where are heading towards and when will the[...]
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