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Wonders of the Universe episode 4

Wonders of the Universe episode 4

Wonders of the Universe episode 4: In the last episode of Professor Brian Cox’s epic journey across the universe, he travels from the fossils of the Burgess Shale to the sands of the oldest desert in the world to show how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, including our own deepest origins.     To understand how light holds the key to the story of the universe, you first have to understand its peculiar properties. Brian considers how the properties of light that lend colour to desert sands and the spectrum of a rainbow can […]

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Wonders of the Universe episode 3

Wonders of the Universe episode 3

Wonders of the Universe episode 3: In the third episode, Professor Brian Cox delves into the captivating narrative of gravity, the force responsible for shaping the vast expanse of the universe. Gravity, despite its seemingly familiar nature, remains one of the most enigmatic and awe-inspiring forces known to humankind. Embarking on a zero-gravity flight, Brian immerses himself in the sensation of weightlessness, contemplating the profound impact gravity has exerted on our surrounding world.     However, the reach of gravity extends far beyond our immediate surroundings. It serves as the grand conductor of the cosmos, governing our orbital path around

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Wonders of the Universe episode 2

Wonders of the Universe episode 2

Wonders of the Universe episode 2: In this episode, he seeks to answer the biggest questions of all – what are we and where do we come from? In the second stop in his exploration of the wonders of the universe, Professor Brian Cox goes in search of humanity’s very essence to answer the biggest questions of all: what are we? And where do we come from? This film is the story of matter – the stuff of which we are all made.     Brian reveals how our origins are entwined with the life cycle of the stars. But

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Wonders of the Universe

Wonders of the Universe

Wonders of the Universe: In this episode, Brian looks at the nature of time and its role in creating both the universe and ourselves. Having explored the wonders of the solar system, Professor Brian Cox steps boldly on to an even bigger stage – the universe. Who are we? Where do we come from? For thousands of years humanity has turned to religion and myth for answers to these enduring questions. But in this series, Brian presents a different set of answers – answers provided by science.     From an extraordinary calendar built into the landscape of Peru to

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Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars

Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars

Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars: Professor Brian Cox fulfils a childhood dream by going behind the scenes at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), mission control for Mars 2020 – one of the most ambitious missions ever launched that may finally reveal if life ever existed on the red planet.       In 1980, a young Brian Cox wrote to JPL asking for photos from some of their missions to the planets. The pictures they sent him from Voyager and the Viking mission to Mars were a source of inspiration that set him on the path to becoming a

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Universe - The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5

Universe – The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5

Universe – The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5: It’s the ultimate question: why are we here? Cutting-edge space missions take us back 13.8 billion years to the very beginning – the origin of the Universe.     Professor Brian Cox asks the ultimate question: how did the Universe come to be? The Universe is daunting in its scale. We live on one planet of eight that orbit just one of the four hundred billion stars in our galaxy. But our galaxy is just one of trillions in the universe. Yet it is amongst those galaxies that we have

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Universe - Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4

Universe – Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4

Universe – Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4: Prof Brian Cox journeys into a supermassive black hole – a monster that can destroy worlds, stop time, and is forcing us to reassess our understanding of reality.     Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the universe with a journey into darkness. The centre of our galaxy is home to an invisible monster of unimaginable power – a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*. Weighing 4 million times the mass of the Sun, it’s an object with such an immense gravitational field that nothing can escape – not

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