• 2004
  • 10m
Spacefiles

Summary Short animations that use stunning computer graphic images, time-lapse, simulations and 'real' footage to examine the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and the Solar System View more details

  • 2004
  • 10m

Spacefiles

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 8, 2025

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Summary Short animations that use stunning computer graphic images, time-lapse, simulations and 'real' footage to examine the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and the Solar System View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jan 8, 2025

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
The Sun - Powerhouse of the Solar System
The Sun is our local star - a nuclear reactor at the hub of the Solar System. Each second, the Sun loses four million tons of mass - energy that will keep the Sun blazing for another five billion years.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Inside Track - Mercury, closest planet to the Sun
Of the nine planets, Mercury orbits on the inside track - the closest planet to the Sun. Baked and irradiated, Mercury is a cratered little world - a pristine record of the impactors that rained from space during the early Solar System. Mercury is weird. It has double sunrises and a day twice as long as its year.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Venus - Planet from Hell
Venus is Earth gone wrong - a lifeless planet with a dense and choking atmosphere and temperatures to melt lead. Constantly shrouded in cloud, Venus could once have been Earth's twin with oceans and continents, even simple life. But there is a theory that as the Sun matured and its luminosity increased, Venus became hell.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Earth - Home Planet
We live on the largest inner planet, third from the Sun and the first with a moon. Earth is lucky - at just the right distance from the Sun for life to evolve in the oceans, for green plants to produce breathable air and for humankind to develop agriculture and civilization.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
The Moon - Our Partner in Space
The Moon was probably formed when a body the size of Mars twice hit early Earth. The first collision was a glancing blow. The second, two days later, was a major impact.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Jaw-Drop - Eclipses and Aurorae
A total eclipse of the Sun is the greatest spectacular in the Solar System. It happens when the Moon, which is 400 times smaller than the Sun, completely obscures the Sun.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Mars - The Red Planet
The Martian day is a comfortable 24-and-a-half hours. But the rest is strange - planet-wide dust storms, temperatures overnight of minus 100 degrees and a daytime high just above freezing.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Asteroids, Meteors and Impacts
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt, a swarm of rocky bodies. Every so often, perturbed perhaps by the gravitational tug of Jupiter, asteroids collide and tumble towards the Sun. If they pass Mars, they can threaten Earth.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
King Planet - Jupiter
Jupiter, bigger than all the other planets combined, could swallow Earth 1,323 times. Yet this giant ball of gas has no solid surface. Comprising 90 percent hydrogen and ten percent helium and orbited by more than 60 moons, Jupiter is a mini solar system. Four of them are big enough to make small planets. The moon Europa has an icy crust that may conceal an ocean.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Lord of the Rings - Saturn
Saturn, second largest of the giant gas planets, rules a dazzling domain. Forming a halo that would stretch from Earth to the Moon, the rings of Saturn are billions of moonlets - from grains of dust to rocks the size of tanks. The planet is so light it would float in water. Titan, Saturn's greatest moon, is bigger than the planet Mercury.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Uranus & Neptune
In the cold, dark outer reaches, orbit the giant gas planets of Uranus and Neptune. Uranus is twice as far from the Sun as Saturn. Neptune is so distant it takes 165 years to orbit the Sun. Uranus rotates on its side - possibly knocked over in a collision that may also have shattered and re-assembled the craggy moon Miranda. Neptune is a very windy planet.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Pluto - Farthest Planet from the Sun
Farthest planet from the Sun, Pluto is so remote and small, it was not found until 1930. The discovery was made by a 24-year-old farmer's son, Clyde Tombaugh. At the Lowell Observatory, in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, Tombaugh photographed 45-million objects in the cosmos before spotting Pluto. And it was not until 1978 that Pluto's huge moon Charon was discovered by Jim Christie.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Comet
The nomads of the Solar System, comets swing through the planets on wild eccentric orbits. Comets plunge into the Sun, some just graze it. Others, like Halley's Comet every 76 years, make regular periodic appearance in our skies. Comets are from the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, a vast halo of debris that stretches a third of the way to the nearest star.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Night Sky
Navigating the stars and the 88 constellations of the night sky. A beginner's guide to using vivid and easily recognizable patterns - like Orion, the Hunter, and Ursa Major, the Great Bear - as signposts in the heavens. How to find Sirius, the brightest star; Polaris, the north pole star, and the southern celestial pole, where there is no marker star.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
Discovery
The history of astronomy. From the Babylonians and ancient Chinese, the first astronomers, to the Egyptians, who created our calendar of 365 days, and the Greeks who discovered Earth is round. Copernicus, in the 16th century, worked out that the planets orbit the Sun. Galileo first used a telescope on the sky. Isaac Newton improved it - and described the effects of gravity.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1969
Whither?
The story of manned spaceflight. With the German Werner von Braun launching American rocketry and Sergei Korolev masterminding the Soviet space program, the Russians put the first cosmonaut in space and the Americans the first astronaut on the Moon. Then came America's Space Shuttle and the development of orbiting space stations, largely by the Russians.
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
High Hopes
Space stations. A review of ISS, the International Space Station, currently being assembled, and its forerunners. Most famous was Mir, run by the Russians for 14 years. ISS has now replaced Mir. But ISS is hugely over budget and way behind schedule due to problems with its two major partners.
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
Quest
The search for extra-terrestrial life is on. Earth is perfect for life. Our temperate planet is neither too near nor too far from the Sun. With Venus too close and Mars too distant, if they once had life, they most likely don't have now. The only other possibility in the Solar System is Europa, a moon of Jupiter.
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
Zero to Zillions
The theory of the Big Bang - how the Universe exploded from an infinitesimal speck to create matter, radiation, time and space. Within the first trillion-trillion-trillionth of a second, the cosmos grew a hundred million times to less than the size of an atom. Then, in another instant, the Universe was the size of a galaxy.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
Galaxy
For more than a decade, free from the distortions of Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has delivered breathtaking images of the cosmos with remarkable clarity. Now, ground-based telescopes are fighting back. They are combining the sight of several instruments and correcting atmospheric shimmer. The Very Large Telescope in Chile is already out-doing Hubble.
Episode 22 • Dec 31, 1969
Telescope
For more than a decade, free from the distortions of Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has delivered breathtaking images of the cosmos with remarkable clarity. Now, ground-based telescopes are fighting back. They are combining the sight of several instruments and correcting atmospheric shimmer. The Very Large Telescope in Chile is already out-doing Hubble.
Episode 23 • Dec 31, 1969
Far Out
The measurement and scale of the Universe. How far is a star or a galaxy? Distances are so vast they are described in light years - the distance light travels in a year. Nearby stars are measured by trigonometry - the technique of parallax. Farther out, astronomers use so-called "standard candles". The pulsing and luminosity of Cepheid Variable stars works up to 90-million light years.
Episode 24 • Dec 31, 1969
X-Ray
Invisible astronomy. Much of the cosmos cannot be seen through optical telescopes. But it can be detected in wavelengths of the electro-magnetic spectrum ranging from gamma-rays, through x-rays and ultra-violet to infra-red and radio. They reveal cauldrons of starbirth, exploding stars, neutron stars and black holes.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1969
Black Hole
The vanishing acts in the cosmos - black holes. They occur when a massive star dies. As its outer layers cascade into space, the core collapses to beyond the visible. It becomes a voracious gravitational trap from which nothing, not even light, escapes. Black holes can be detected by bright surrounding discs - material swirling to the event horizon and oblivion.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
Yonder to Infinity
How will the Universe end? Rather than slowing down, the expansion of the cosmos seems to be speeding up. The 50-billion galaxies thought to comprise the Universe are moving farther and farther apart. As energy runs out, the ultimate prospect is cold, dark and lonely. Intriguingly, other universes may exist.
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