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The Sky at Night - The Forgotten Solar System

The Sky at Night – The Forgotten Solar System

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The Sky at Night – The Forgotten Solar System: Of the 100 probes that have been sent out into space, only one probe – Voyager 2 in 1989 – has ever sent back any information about the solar system’s outer planets. From afar, they seem featureless and devoid of any significant geological activity.     Since then, long-range telescopes have […]

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The Planets episode 5 - Into the Darkness

The Planets episode 5 – Into the Darkness: Ice Worlds

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The Planets episode 5: in the final episode, Professor Brian Cox journeys to the remotest part of the solar system, a place that the most mysterious planets call home. These worlds remain shadowy for a simple reason. Beyond Saturn we have only ever visited the most distant planets once.     Uranus – barely visible to the naked eye –

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