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Launched in 1977 to study the Solar system’s gas giant planets, Voyager 1 is still operating. But now it’s so far away that the Solar wind has weakened and a deluge of cosmic particles from intergalactic...
Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski present this programme charting Earth’s 940 million kilometre, one-year journey around the sun and explain how this is essential to maintaining life as we know it, giving...
Do other life forms exist outside of our atmosphere? Modern telescopes and unmanned space missions have revealed a wide range of dynamic environments: atmospheres thick with organic molecules, active...
A documentary tracing the history of the telescope from the days of Copernicus to recent findings from the Hubble Telescope. The film begins in 17th century Florence, Italy, with Galileo training his...
Aubrey Manning presents a series on geological history, unfolding the recent story of how scientists have come to understand the mechanics of our dynamic planet. The 8 programmes took 3 years to make, cost...
A video recording of the BA Lord Kelvin Award Lecture 2005 given by Robert Walsh. The sun is vital for providing all the light, heat and energy required for life to have evolved on our planet. However, our...
An account of space exploration and discovery from the first attempts to magnify the sky to space travel. Contains computer-created footage, actual footage shot from spacecraft and archive film. Narrated by...
Four-part cosmology series on the universe, using accessible ideas to explain advances in cosmology and astronomy. In four parts: 1) Big Bang: explores ideas of Steven Hawking, Wendy Freedman, Bob Kirshner,...
The ‘grand tour’ of Voyager 2 - the space probe that started to explore the outer solar system beginning in August 1977, and led to the outer reaches of the solar system. These pictures of the larger...
Multimedia astronomy. Information on 250,000 stars and 40,000 ‘deep space objects’ - nebula, star clusters and galaxies, which can be viewed from various perspectives. Also contains a number of...
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