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Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
Original Air Date: 2/21/11 |
Season 1, Episode 16
Date Added: 2/28/11
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...
Attack of the Sun
Original Air Date: 3/25/11 |
Season 1, Episode 2
Date Added: 3/28/11
How massive solar eruptions can take aim at our high-tech society. Explores past events such as the solar storms of Halloween 2003 and 1859, and dives...
Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
Original Air Date: 12/9/09 |
Season 1, Episode 10
Date Added: 7/9/11
Astronomers tracking stars at the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are shooting for the first...
Cold Sparks and Black Holes: Energy Scales of the Universe
Original Air Date: 9/10/10 |
Season 1, Episode 14
Date Added: 7/9/11
This episode climbs a ladder of increasingly powerful events, from frigid gas clouds to nuclear explosions, on out to the seething environments of...
How Large Is the Universe?
Original Air Date: 10/20/09 |
Season 1, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/9/11
The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the first micro-moments of our universe. SpaceRipTV in collaboration with Space.com. Narrated...
Is the Universe Infinite?
Original Air Date: 11/23/10 |
Season 1, Episode 15
Date Added: 11/26/10
Many astronomers now conclude that what we can see, the stars and galaxies that stretch out to the limits of our vision, represent only a small...
Mars World That Never Was
Original Air Date: 5/2/11 |
Season 1, Episode 4
Date Added: 5/6/11
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...
Mysteries of a Dark Universe
Original Air Date: 10/14/11 |
Season 1, Episode 18
Date Added: 10/20/11
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...
Return to the Moon
Original Air Date: 8/16/09 |
Season 1, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/9/11
A new space race is on, with half a dozen countries launching missions to explore the moon. The goal is to pave the way for a permanent human...
Saturn's Mysterious Moons
Original Air Date: 4/16/11 |
Season 1, Episode 3
Date Added: 4/19/11
From the Cassini spacecraft comes one of the greatest photographic collections. Scientists are using it to uncover a trail of clues pointing to the...
Super Hurricanes
Original Air Date: 9/16/09 |
Season 1, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/9/11
Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? A SpaceRipTV original with Space.com.
The Horizons of Deep Time
Original Air Date: 11/10/09 |
Season 1, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/9/11
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....
The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
Original Air Date: 11/18/09 |
Season 1, Episode 9
Date Added: 7/9/11
It's the ultimate buddy movie. Forty years ago, astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean walked on the moon in what may be the most important of the six...
The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
Original Air Date: 9/27/09 |
Season 1, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/9/11
The largest black hole measured to date is a whopping 18 billion times the mass of the Sun. Monsters like this wreak havoc on the cosmos while setting...
The Riddle of AntiMatter
Original Air Date: 8/19/11 |
Season 1, Episode 17
Date Added: 8/20/11
Explores one of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be. Scientists are mounting new efforts to figure out how matter survived, and...
The Search for Earth-Like Planets
Original Air Date: 1/8/10 |
Season 1, Episode 11
Date Added: 7/9/11
The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled...
Venus: Death of a Planet
Original Air Date: 1/2/70 |
Season 1, Episode 13
Date Added: 7/9/11
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...
Voyage to Pandora
Original Air Date: 2/8/10 |
Season 1, Episode 12
Date Added: 7/9/11
Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. It's location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the...