Presented with spectacular new images from NASA and ESA's (European Space Agency) May 2009 overhaul of the Hubble Telescope and satellite photos, this video series embarks on an exploration of the known universe from our own planet to galaxies light years away. Complex digital models ...
This is the gripping story of the Huygens probe's journey to Titan, Saturn's enigmatic moon. The final phase of it's epic trip begins with a Christmas Day separation from the Cassini spacecraft. For three weeks the probe closes in on Titan's brooding orange cloud tops. Never before had ...
Outer space is open for business. It's a booming $50 billion a year industry - and growing so fast that not even the sky is the limit. Few of us give a thought to the myriad satellites bobbing abound thousands of miles above our heads. But watch TV, the internet, weather forecasts, ...
This program helps children to understand the moon and its features. Children use simple models to explore ways of finding answes to commonly asked questions about the moon. Adults recall the first moon landing and comparisons between the earth and the moon are made.
Many of the recent discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope have been catalogued by letters and numbers. Gone are the poetic, mythical names like Milky Way or Andromeda or Pegasus. No claim of miracles, no mystical story connected to the map of stars. Yet the miraculous depths of Nebulas and ...
Many of the recent discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope have been catalogued by letters and numbers. Gone are the poetic, mythical names like Milky Way or Andromeda or Pegasus. No claim of miracles, no mystical story connected to the map of stars. Yet the miraculous depths of Nebulas and ...
Earth's Moon was born in a catastrophic collision more than 4 billion years ago. It started out very close to the planet but has been moving away ever since. It's drifting away every year. The system's centre of mass is currently inside Earth, though that is slowly changing. In a few ...
Earth's Moon was born in a catastrophic collision more than 4 billion years ago. It started out very close to the planet but has been moving away ever since. It's drifting away every year. The system's centre of mass is currently inside Earth, though that is slowly changing. In a few ...
Girdled by its mighty rings, Saturn is the most recognizable yet least understood of the plants. Seven years after leaving Earth, Cassini, the most sophisticated planetary explorer ever built, arrives at Saturn for a four-year orbital mission. The fate of the entire $3.5 billion ...
The solar system is alive. At its heart is our Sun, offering the very molecules of its body to create the energy fuelling the system. The planets are the concentrated remnants of an enormous cloud of dust and gas that had transformed into a disk, condensed at its of the until finally ...
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