How the Universe Works
TV-PG
8.9
2010
Documentary
A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.
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Episode 11 : Mystery of Alien Worlds
June. 02,2021
New discoveries reveal the secrets of mysterious alien worlds.
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Episode 10 : Gravitational Waves Revealed
May. 26,2021
Gravitational waves are helping scientists explore the cosmos in revolutionary, new ways, and the discoveries they make are revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries.
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Episode 9 : Birth of Monster Black Holes
May. 19,2021
New discoveries reveal an astonishing supermassive black hole that was born during the earliest days of the cosmos, and finding out how this giant grew so large so quickly may help to explain the very formation of the universe itself.
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Episode 8 : Secret Lives Of Neutrinos
May. 12,2021
Neutrinos are the most mysterious particles in the universe, and they power some of the most explosive events in the cosmos; new discoveries reveal how these ghosts pass through objects undetected and why they could be the reason humans exist.
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Episode 7 : The Next Supernova
May. 05,2021
The galaxy is full of stars ready to explode into supernovas, a stellar detonation powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth; it's an event that hasn't occurred in 400 years, and the search is on to locate which star may be next.
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Episode 6 : War of the Galaxies
April. 28,2021
Galaxies are locked in continual combat across the universe, and our own Milky Way will face its biggest opponent ever, the Andromeda Galaxy, in a titanic and deadly struggle that could create a new and unrecognizable super galaxy.
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Episode 5 : Curse of the White Dwarf
April. 21,2021
Dead stars called white dwarfs may be the key to understanding the cosmos.
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Episode 4 : Aliens of the Microcosmos
April. 14,2021
New discoveries reveal the power of microscopic alien organisms.
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Episode 3 : Secrets Of The Sun
April. 07,2021
A brand-new NASA mission to the Sun reveals cutting-edge discoveries about Earth's star; as the Parker Solar Probe dives through the Sun's atmosphere, what it finds challenges everything known about this strange place.
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Episode 2 : Mission to a Comet
March. 31,2021
Experts embark on a ground-breaking mission to land on a comet.
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