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The Expanding Universe: From Big Bang to Big Crunch?
Far from being a stable assembly of stars, the galaxies interact, entwine, and sometimes even consume one another. This program examines the universe as continually expanding. It takes a hard look at cosmology's most popular theory: that everything s...(more details) |
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Home Star: The Sun and the Planets
This program uses animation and close-up footage to study the birth of the solar system. The workings and life-cycle of our home star, the sun, are also addressed, along with its influence on Earth and its eventual death. New data indicates that ice ...(more details) |
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From Stonehenge to Hubble: Looking to the Stars
Animation and historical footage trace the progress of astronomy from megalithic observatories through the genius of Isaac Newton, to the Hubble telescope. The Hubble's eye, a tour de force in astronomy tools, is used to describe how telescopes work ...(more details) |
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Celestial Wonders: Eclipses, Auroras, and Light Fantastic
This program presents a clear explanation of solar and lunar eclipses, and illustrates their magnificence through spectacular shots of the 1998 total eclipse of the sun in the West Indies. Visible light is shown as only part of a spectrum through whi...(more details) |
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Impact! Comets and Asteroids
In this program, comets are studied as ice mountains careening through the solar system. Time-lapse photography of the Hale-Bopp comet provides an interesting perspective on this visitor from the regions of the Kuiper belt. Pluto is studied as both a...(more details) |
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