The Complete Cosmos
Realm of the Comets (#110)
Find out about comets and where they originate--the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt. Perhaps tiny Pluto isn't a planet at all. [10 minutes]
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Cosmos | The Edge of Forever | PBS (#110)
Full Program: Dr. Sagan leads us to a time when galaxies were beginning to form, and to show how humans of this century... 01:03:06
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Cosmos | One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue | PBS (#102)
Full Program: Dr. Sagan's cosmic calendar makes the history of the universe understandable and frames the origin of the Earth and... 01:00:09
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Cosmos | Who Speaks for Earth? | PBS (#113)
Full Program: This is the famous episode on nuclear war in which Dr. Sagan argues that our responsibility for survival is owed... 01:02:02
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Cosmos | Travellers' Tales | PBS (#106)
Full Program: Dr. Sagan compares explorers who ventured in sailing ships halfway around our planet in their quest for wealth and... 01:00:59
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Cosmos | Heaven and Hell | PBS (#104)
Full Program: A descent through the hellish atmosphere of Venus to explore its broiling surface serves as a warning to our world... 01:01:05
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Our Star Is Born (#101)
Learn about the birth, life and death of the Sun. See interior dynamics, exterior fireworks, sunspots, corona and solar wind. [10 minutes]
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Mercury (#102)
A comprehensive portrait of this scorched little planet shows double sunrises, craters, cracks and incongruous polar ice. [10 minutes]
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Venus (#103)
Beneath the clouds of Venus is a planetary hell--a poisonous, crushing atmosphere with searing heat, volcanoes and a runaway greenhouse effect. Why? [10 minutes]
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Blue Planet (#104)
Learn of the evolution of the Earth and of life including internal structure, continental drift, day length, seasons, oceans, climate, weather and El Nino. [10 minutes]
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Moon (#105)
Born of collision, this is the story of the Moon, its influence on Earth, the Apollo landings and the discovery of water. [10 minutes]
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Red Planet (#106)
Cold, arid Mars has polar caps, volcanoes and the biggest canyon ever seen. [10 minutes]
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Jupiter (#107)
Bigger than the other planets combined, Jupiter is a turbulent gas giant with 16 moons. Voyage through this mini solar system. [10 minutes]
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Saturn (#108)
See the many rings and moons of this exotic gas giant. Preview a landing on Titan--a moon like primitive Earth. [10 minutes]
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Uranus and Neptune (#109)
Meet the outer giants--Uranus with a crazy tilt and a chaotic moon called Miranda, and Neptune with tempests and a moon spurting geysers. [10 minutes]
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Realm of the Comets (#110)
Find out about comets and where they originate--the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt. Perhaps tiny Pluto isn't a planet at all. [10 minutes]
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Earth Patrol (#111)
Launch into Earth's orbit and discover the satellites that monitor the health of our planet--ozone, melting ice-caps, weather, deforestation, and navigation. [10 minutes]
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Space Frontier (#112)
Study human space exploration from Yuri Gagarin's first orbit of Earth, to the race for the Moon, and the Apollo landings. [10 minutes]
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High Life (#113)
Live and work in space experiencing the triumphs, tragedies and everyday practicalities on the Russian space station Mir and America's Space Shuttle. [10 minutes]
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Robots (#114)
Our scouts in the solar system trail-blaze on Mars, plunge into Jupiter and land on Saturn's moon Titan. [10 minutes]
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Where Next? (#115)
A futuristic shuttle soars into orbit and docks with a spaceport. Would such a station be the staging post for journeys to the Moon and beyond? A glimpse of 'cities of the future' on the Moon and Mars. [10 minutes]
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Pioneers (#116)
From the ancient sky-watchers of Babylon to space-age cosmology, learn the story of astronomy through the eyes of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton and Hubble. [10 minutes]
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Eclipses and Aurorae (#117)
Solar wind and an aurora, lunar and solar eclipses and an eclipse of the Sun create spectacular celestial shows. [10 minutes]
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Impact! (#118)
Explore the threat of comets and asteroids. What would happen if the space rock that allegedly slew the dinosaurs hit New York today? [10 minutes]
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Light Fantastic (#119)
Visible light reveals only part of the Universe. Other wavelengths fill out the picture [10 minutes]
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Life Quest (#120)
Is there life elsewhere in the solar system? Currently, on Jupiter's moon Europa? In the future, on Saturn's moon Titan? [10 minutes]
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Milky Way (#121)
Our galaxy is explored and light years are explained. Examine the life and death of stars from supernovae to the clouds where stars are born. [10 minutes]
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Hubble's Eye (#122)
After astronauts fix its faulty optics, the Hubble Space Telescope peers back through time to the depths of the cosmos. [10 minutes]
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Infinity (#123)
Investigate the structure of the universe through galaxies, clusters and strands. How do we measure up to a nearby galaxy and to the farthest quasar? [10 minutes]
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Big Bang, Big Crunch (#124)
Examine the theory of the Big Bang. From the cataclysmic explosion, the universe continues to expand. But will it stop and reverse? [10 minutes]
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Black Holes, Dark Matter (#125)
Although invisible, black holes betray their presence. It's the same with dark matter- [10 minutes]