• 2009
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  • 24m
Cosmic Journeys

Summary Gentle documentaries about different aspects of our cosmos. Visually stunning.interesting narration. View more details

  • 2009
  • G
  • 24m

Cosmic Journeys

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Dick Rodstein Dave Brody

All cast & crew

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 19, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Thomson Productions

Summary Gentle documentaries about different aspects of our cosmos. Visually stunning.interesting narration. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 19, 2009

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Production companies : Thomson Productions

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Episode 1 • Jul 19, 2009
Birth of the Moon
Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the Moon by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and craters, and probing its interior. Find out what the origins of the Moon can tell us about our own planet's beginnings.
Episode 2 • Jul 26, 2009
Attack of the Sun
Massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away... an angry sun vents its rage. Dark regions, called sunspots, appeared unexpectedly on its surface... a sign of rising tension within. It had been three and a half years since the sun last erupted in fury...at the peak of an 11-year cycle of solar flare-ups.
Episode 3 • Aug 24, 2009
Saturn's Mysterious Moons
From the Cassini spacecraft comes one of the greatest photographic collections. Scientists are using it to uncover a trail of clues pointing to the energy sources and complex chemistry needed to spawn life.
Episode 4 • Dec 20, 2009
Mars: Earth That Never Was
Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise? If so, does anything still live somewhere underground? The search for answers has revealed the forces that long ago doomed the Red Planet.
Episode 5 • Aug 11, 2009
Super Hurricanes
Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are all the same phenomena that increasingly threaten crowded coastlines. How they form and how they move are examined.
Episode 6 • Sep 26, 2009
The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
Our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to harbor millions of black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there's evidence of something far more ominous. A breed of black holes that has reached incomprehensible size and destructive power. Just how large, and violent, and strange can they get?
Episode 7 • Oct 19, 2009
How Large Is the Universe
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the first micro-moments of our universe. Just as scientists began to make precise measurements of the observable universe, new ideas suggest that our visible patch is an impossibly small portion of the whole.
Episode 8 • Nov 09, 2009
When Will Time End
How long will the Universe as we know it survive? The answer depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory about how black holes decay is right. These strange dense objects are like a clock that tick down to a distant moment when all matter and energy will dissipate into the void.
Episode 9 • Nov 17, 2009
The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
It's the ultimate buddy movie. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the second pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the moon. They combined precision with a sense of humor. But it was the rocks they picked up that would define the mission's legacy.
Episode 10 • Dec 08, 2009
Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
Starting as an unidentified source of radio interference, Sagittarius A* is given closer scrutiny.
Episode 11 • Jan 07, 2010
The Search for Earthlike Planets
With the launch of the Kepler space telescope, humanity has set out to discover more planets like our own. Will the evidence gathered help shed any light on the ancient question: is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely anomaly in space?
Episode 12 • Feb 07, 2010
Voyage to Pandora
Discussing interstellar travel; how to accomplish it, and why it may be necessary to seek out other worlds like the fictional planet Pandora.
Episode 13 • Jun 08, 2010
Venus: Death of a Planet
Long ago, from the fires of our Sun's birth, twin planets emerged: Venus and Earth. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life, while enveloping the other in acid clouds, high heat, and volcanic flows. Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn and Earth developed a vibrant biosphere?
Episode 14 • Sep 09, 2010
The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
What are the energy extremes that define our universe? And how much power can the cosmos wield? Climb a ladder of increasingly powerful events, from frigid gas clouds to nuclear explosions, and travel out to the seething environments of black holes. Find out where Earth fits in the vast power scales of the cosmos.
Episode 15 • Nov 22, 2010
Is the Universe Infinite?
Explore the biggest question of all. How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern times, we built giant telescopes that have allowed us to cast our gaze deep into the universe. Astronomers have been able to look back to near the time of its birth. They've reconstructed the course of cosmic history in astonishing detail.
Episode 16 • Feb 20, 2011
Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. Scientists are beginning to envision what these worlds are like, and in the process, redefining what a planet might need to spawn life.
Episode 17 • Aug 18, 2011
The Riddle of AntiMatter
One of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be may finally be yielding to human investigation. Scientists are mounting new efforts to figure out how matter survived, and what happened to its birth twin, a mysterious substance known as antimatter?
Episode 18 • Oct 13, 2011
Mysteries of a Dark Universe
Cosmology has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-increasing rate. The scientists who made this discovery were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Episode 19 • May 10, 2012
Crashing Into the Moon
Over the next decade, the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and even private companies, are planning to send spacecraft to explore the moon. These missions are looking for resources that may one day allow humans to settle permanently in space.
Episode 20 • Nov 28, 2012
Birth of a Black Hole
Spy satellites first saw these brief but extremely bright flashes of light in the 1960s. For three decades, gamma ray bursts for deep space were one of the persistent mysteries in all of science. It took a revolution in high-energy astronomy to prove that they are the distant birth cries of newborn black holes.
Episode 21 • Feb 14, 2013
Solar Superstorms
The causes and consequences of solar weather.
Episode 22 • Apr 06, 2013
Voyager: Journey to the Stars
The two Voyager spacecraft are part of an ancient quest to push beyond our boundaries... to see what lies beyond the horizon. Now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth, two spacecraft are streaking out into the void. What will we learn about the Galaxy, the Universe, and ourselves from Voyager's epic Journey to the stars?
Episode 23 • Oct 03, 2013
Earth in 1000 Years
With the polar ice caps continuing to melt and sea levels on the rise, scientists are looking back into our global climate history to see where our planet may be headed 1,000 years into the future and beyond.
Episode 24 • Feb 02, 2014
Reinventing Space Flight
Looking at the potential of plasma/ion drive for space travel.
Episode 25 • May 23, 2014
Supervolcanoes
A history of super-volcanoes and the effect they have on the environment.
Episode 26 • Jul 20, 2014
Fate of Antarctica
As warming global climates eat away at the ice sheets that cover the continent of Antarctica, researchers are closely studying its impact on the rest of the world. The scientific data being collected suggests that the fate of the world as we know it may be linked to the fate of Antarctica.
Episode 27 • Sep 18, 2014
Life: Destiny or Chance?
Are the universe and its physical laws so fine-tuned that the rise of life is inevitable? Or is life a fluke, a lucky roll of cosmic dice? We look for the answer in the rise of two important components of life, dust and water.
Episode 28 • Oct 28, 2014
Interstellar Flight
Explore the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long voyage out into the galaxy. What imperatives will define the mission when it launches and finally arrives: exploration and science, or a struggle for survival?
Episode 29 • Dec 12, 2014
The Age of Hubble
This staggeringly visual feast of a documentary Brings cutting-edge findings of modern astronomy to life with state-of-the-art animation, informed by supercomputer simulations of cosmic events. Marvel at the formation of a super-massive black hole 350 million lightyears away; admire the stunning beauty of the Orion nebula; and discover what the stars tell us about our place in the stretch of time and space.
Episode 30 • Dec 18, 2015
SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadliest tornado disasters ever. What did scientists learn when they peered into the realm of this SuperTornado?
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