The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide - Season 1

The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes6
Datesoct. 7, 2007 - nov. 11, 2007

Episodes

Life in the Cosmos
Season 1Episode 130 min

Life in the Cosmos

Series exploring the cosmos. Adam Hart-Davis joins alien hunters at a huge new telescope in California dedicated to receiving the first message from intelligent beings. Janet Sumner investigates a new way to detect life on Mars, using a probe made with living material from Earth. And Adam asks: what if the aliens are listening to us? He finds out how far into the cosmos our ancient broadcasts have travelled.
oct. 7, 2007
Building the Universe
Season 1Episode 230 min

Building the Universe

How do you build a universe? Adam Hart-Davis is 100 metres underground with the team hoping to blast their way back to the Big Bang in the world's largest experiment. They are on the trail of tiny particles not seen since space and time began. There is also the story of Prof. Carlos Frenk who has spent decades attempting to make universes in his computer - but has only recently got the recipe right. And there is a team from Scotland who make stomach-churning anti-gravity flights in an attempt to find out how the planets were formed.
oct. 14, 2007
Seeing the Universe
Season 1Episode 330 min

Seeing the Universe

How far out into space and back into time can we see? Adam Hart-Davis travels across Chile's Atacama desert to the world's largest telescope to discover how this massive machine is revealing incredible new sights from across the universe. Meanwhile, astronomer and engineer Dr Maggie Aderin visits the strange telescope in Tuscany that will soon reveal the cosmos using gravity waves - predicted by Einstein, but until now too weak to detect. She also joins the team at the Hubble Space Telescope who produce the most famous images of space by mixing art and science.
oct. 21, 2007
Space Exploration
Season 1Episode 430 min

Space Exploration

Adam Hart-Davis investigates the dream mission to put men on Mars. It will take thirty years, but methods for exploring the red planet are already being tested in the Utah desert. A Californian psychologist is worried about astronauts experiencing 'Earth Out Of View Syndrome', the effect of seeing your home planet from the Martian surface as a just a pinprick of light. And Janet Sumner meets the woman with plans to produce an artificial greenhouse effect to transform the climate on Mars into something humans can tolerate.
oct. 28, 2007
Violent Universe
Season 1Episode 530 min

Violent Universe

Space is a dangerous place, as Adam Hart-Davis discovers when he joins the team in Leicester hunting for the biggest bangs since the Big Bang. He finds that these vast explosions were discovered accidentally by spy satellites. The centre of our own galaxy is revealed as the site of a super-massive black hole 3000 times more massive than the sun which is gobbling up material from all around. Maggie Aderin investigates the asteroid threatening the Earth in thirty years time, and tries out the methods that might be used to save us.
nov. 4, 2007
Other Worlds
Season 1Episode 630 min

Other Worlds

Is there another Earth? Adam Hart-Davis is on the summit of La Palma in the Canary Islands, searching for planets around other suns. He discovers how it is possible to find planets too small to see, and tells the story of how the first ever planet outside our solar system was found - an event that rocked the world of astronomy. Janet Sumner visits the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, where they invent inhabited planets so that astronomers know what to look for.
nov. 11, 2007

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