Cosmic Journeys
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Cosmic Journeys

Season 1
From distant reaches of the cosmos to mysterious realms within our solar system this series explores our place in a universe that is larger more varied and more violent than we ever imagined Watch stars explode and spacetime rip at the seams in stories about the scientific quest to understand the history composition limits and myriad secrets of the universe
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  1. S1 E1 - The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

    September 26, 2009
    25min
    TV-PG
    Our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to harbor millions of black holes the ultra dense remnants of dead stars But now in the universe far beyond our galaxy theres evidence of something far more ominous A breed of black holes that has reached incomprehensible size and power
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  2. S1 E2 - Voyager Journey to the Stars

    25min
    TV-PG
    Now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth the two Voyager spacecraft are streaking out into the void What will we learn about our galaxy the Universe and ourselves from Voyagers epic journey to the stars
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  3. S1 E3 - The Search for EarthLike Planets

    25min
    TV-PG
    How did the universe begin Where will it end Are there other worlds like Earth This groundbreaking series combs the rubble of exploding stars and dives into gigantic black holes in search of answers What is the search for Earthlike planets telling us about our place in the cosmos Is ours one of countless lifebearing worlds in the galaxy or is it a rare Garden of Eden in a barren universe
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  4. S1 E4 - The Riddle of Antimatter

    25min
    TV-PG
    Explore one of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be  Scientists are mounting new efforts to figure out how matter survived and what happened to its birth twin a mysterious substance known as antimatter
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  5. S1 E5 - Star Crash the Explosion that Transformed Astronomy

    15min
    TV-PG
    A startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earths largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation Two rapidly spinning neutron stars have violently merged possibly to form a black hole
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  6. S1 E6 - Super Hurricanes and Typhoons

    30min
    TV-PG
    Hurricanes and typhoons are creatures of tropical seas that sweep up heatladen waters converting it to wind rain and waves Why do a rare few evolve into colossal monsters that leave in their wake a trail of destruction death and despair
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  7. S1 E7 - Black Holes and the High Energy Universe

    24min
    TV-PG
    Astronomers are probing the highenergy cosmic frontier with a series of key missions Fermi Swift Chandra NuSTAR and Hubble Their goal to find out how the universe works on a fundamental level
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  8. S1 E8 - Reinventing Space Flight

    February 2, 2014
    26min
    TV-PG
    A small cadre of scientists is attempting to revolutionize space travel and exploration This actionpacked episode explores a big dream at the moment of its birth taking us along on dramatic balloon flights into colorful geomagnetic storms
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  9. S1 E9 - Mysteries of a Dark Universe

    25min
    TV-PG
    Cosmology has been turned on its head by the stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an everincreasing rate The scientists who made this discovery were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics
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  10. S1 E10 - Mars World That Never Was

    25min
    TV-PG
    Mars is a barren rocky planet whose atmosphere is composed mainly of carbon dioxide and dust Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise If so does anything still live anywhere underground Did microcreatures once thrive Is there evidence of fossils Questions abound The search for answers to the question of life has revealed the forces that long ago doomed the Red Planet forever
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  11. S1 E11 - How Large is the Universe

    25min
    TV-PG
    The Universes immense scales of distance and time cause us to wonder how far it stretches and where it ends Dating back 137 billion years its radius would be the distance a beam of light traveled in that time In fact though its much bigger than that How it got so large so fast was a deep mystery not resolved till a theory arose describing the first micromoments of our Universe
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  12. S1 E12 - Crashing Into the Moon

    25min
    TV-PG
    The United States Japan India China Russia and even private companies are planning to send spacecraft to explore the Moon in the near future These missions are looking for resources that may one day allow humans to settle permanently in space The main resource for human sustenance is water which is found in large quantities in the form of ice at the bottom of craters in the lunar poles
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  13. S1 E13 - The Dream of Interstellar Flight

    October 28, 2014
    25min
    TV-PG
    Explore the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long voyage out into the galaxy What imperatives will define the mission exploration and science or a struggle to survive
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  14. S1 E14 - Birth of the Moon

    25min
    TV-PG
    Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the Moon by scouring its surface mapping its mountains and craters and probing its interior Find out what they are learning about our own planets beginnings
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  15. S1 E15 - Attack of the Sun

    25min
    TV-PG
    Massive solar eruptions take aim at our hightech society Explore events such as the solar storms of Halloween 2003 and 1859 and dive into the Sun to find out what causes our star to turn angry These storms can create intense currents in Earths magnetosphere and cause the ionosphere and upper thermosphere to heat up They can disrupt radio signals and navigation systems and harm power grids
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  16. S1 E16 - Venus Death of a Planet

    25min
    TV-PG
    From the fires of our suns birth twin planets emerged Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life while enveloping Venus in acid clouds high heat and volcanic flows Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn
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  17. S1 E17 - Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy

    31min
    TV-PG
    From a distance our galaxy would look like a flat spiral some 100000 light years across with pockets of gas clouds of dust and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of the galactic center And yet the clues have been piling up that something important something strange is going on
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  18. S1 E18 - The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe

    September 9, 2010
    25min
    TV-PG
    All across the immense reaches of time and space energy is being exchanged transferred released in a great cosmic pinball game we call our universe Here is a progression of energy events from the smallest and coldest to the hottest and most powerful
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