Video: Topics: Science & Nature: Astronomy
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Cosmos | The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean | PBS (#101)
Full Program: At the beginning of this cosmic journey across space and time, Dr. Carl Sagan takes us to the edge of the universe aboard a spaceship of the imagination. 01:05:10
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Cosmos | The Backbone of Night | PBS (#107)
Full Program: Humans once thought the stars were campfires in the sky and the Milky Way "the backbone of night." 58:37
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Cosmos | Encyclopedia Galactica | PBS (#112)
Full Program: Are there alien intelligences? How could we communicate with them? The answers to these questions take us to Egypt to decode ancient hieroglyphics, and to the largest radio telescope on Earth. 01:00:46
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Cosmos | Blues for a Red Planet | PBS (#105)
Full Program: Is there life on Mars? Dr. Sagan takes viewers on a tour of the red planet first through the eyes of science fiction authors, and then through the unblinking eyes of two Viking spacecraft. 01:01:11
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NOVA | Astrospies | PBS (#3501)
Full Program: Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the US raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to... 53:13
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NOVA | The Weather on Mars | PBS
Is the weather on Mars anything like the weather on Earth? NOVA asked Vicky Hipkin from the Canadian Space Agency, who was part of the recent Phoenix Mission to explore conditions on the Red Planet 05:04
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International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson (#152)
Full Program: On September 2, 2008, NASA astronaut and Iowa native Peggy Whitson addressed a standing-room-only audience at Simpson College in Indianola. 01:08:33
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NOVA scienceNOW | Hello, this is Earth | PBS (#305)
If Earth received a message from outer space what, if anything, would we say back? Jill Tartar, director of the SETI Institute, has thought long and hard about what we could, should, and would say... 04:58
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NOVA scienceNOW | Life of an Astronaut | PBS (#303)
Hubble veteran, Mike Massimino, tells it like it is—the good and bad of being an astronaut. 04:40
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NOVA scienceNOW | The Dark Matter Mystery | PBS (#301)
We can’t see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. 04:38
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Dreams to Reality: Astronaut Clayton Anderson (#136)
Full Program: Astronaut and Iowa State University alum Clayton Anderson chronicles his 152 days in space as part of the 15th and 16th expeditions to the International Space Station (ISS). Mr. Anderson launched...
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WIRED SCIENCE | Space Junkyard | PBS (#109)
Ever wonder where spaceships go to die? Special correspondent Adam Rogers visits a Southern California scrapyard to the find the place where the remnants of the Apollo missions were laid to rest.... 01:18
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WIRED SCIENCE | Satellite Shopping | PBS
It's been 50 years since the first satellite, Sputnik, was launched into orbit. Now, communication satellites are used in everything from radio and television to Internet connections. Special... 04:02
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WIRED SCIENCE | Experiment Cave | PBS
We head to two underground labs that are hunting down neutrinos, the most elusive particles in the universe, in hopes of answering some of humankind's most fundamental questions. We'll find out... 02:09
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NOVA scienceNOW | Hunting Meteorites | PBS
Space scientist Rob Matson shows Neil deGrasse Tyson his favorite meteorite hunting ground. Tyson is an astrophysicist, the director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York City's American Museum of... 04:00
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