Cosmic Journeys
Date de parution : 20 juillet 2009
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Birth of the Moon Decades ago, we sent astronauts to the moon as a symbol of confidence in the face of the great cold war struggle. Landing on the moon was a giant... | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Attack of the Sun Back then, we got ready for it… by shutting down satellites that were vulnerable to high levels of radiation. But no one expected this. In what... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Saturn's Mysterious Moons Almost seven years later, on the first of July 2004, the Cassini probe entered the orbit of Saturn. It then began to compile what has become one of... | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Mars World That Never Was Just about every two years, the planet Mars makes its closest approach to Earth around 36 million miles. Thats when we pack our robotic emissaries... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Super Hurricanes Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? September 12th, 2008. A hurricane... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | The Largest Black Holes In The Universe Our Milky Way may harbor millions of black holes… the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there’s... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | How Large Is The Universe? The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end, and what lies beyond... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | When Will Time End 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. |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | The Incredible Journey Of Apollo 12 Earth. November 14, 1969. Three astronauts, with spacesuits, food, water, and a battery of scientific and communications equipment, prepared to fly... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | The Search For Earth Like Planets 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... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Voyage To Pandora Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Venus: Death of a Planet Why did Earth thrive and our sister planet, Venus, died? From the fires of a sun’s birth… twin planets emerged. Then their paths diverged. Nature... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe How does energy stitch the cosmos together, and how do we fit within it? We now climb the power scales of the universe, from atoms, nearly frozen to... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | Is the Universe Infinite? From intensive computer modeling, and myriad close observations, they’ve uncovered important clues to its ongoing evolution. Many now conclude that... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths Instead, astronomers have glimpsed a diverse planetary zoo, with giant planets in wide orbits around their parent stars, others that swing in so... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | The Riddle of AntiMatter Scientists are now focusing their most powerful technologies on an effort to figure out exactly what happened. Our understanding of cosmic history... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | Mysteries of a Dark Universe Is the universe bursting at the seams? Or is nature somehow fooling us? The astronomers whose data revealed this accelerating universe have been... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Crashing Into The Moon There was a time when only government agencies had the ability to blast rockets into space, or send missions to worlds beyond our own. These days,... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Birth of a Black Hole Far out in space, in the center of a seething cosmic maelstrom. Extreme heat. High velocities. Atoms tear, and space literally buckles. Photons fly... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms Modern science has linked polar light shows, called auroras, to vast waves of electrified gas hurled in our direction by the sun. Today, researchers... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | Voyager: Journey to the Stars Now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth, the two Voyager spacecraft are streaking out into the void. What will we learn about the Galaxy, the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | Earth in 1000 Years This edition of COSMIC JOURNEYS explores the still unfolding story of Earth's past and the light it sheds on the science of climate change today.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | Reinventing Space Flight Follow Dr. Ben Longmier and his team into the rugged Alaskan wilderness on a quest to build a whole new type of rocket engine. Their goal is to test... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | Supervolcanoes They are eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mass extinction.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Fate of Antarctica The episode of Cosmic Journeys explores the intersection of paleoclimate and current climate science. Through its turbulent history, Antarctica has... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 27 | LIFE: Destiny or Chance? Are the universe and its physical laws so fine-tuned that the rise of life is inevitable? Or is life a fluke, a lucky roll of cosmic dice? We look... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Interstellar Flight Cosmic Journeys explores the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long voyage out... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | The Age of Hubble An army of high tech telescopes is capturing photons racing through space, measuring their energies and pinpointing their sources. Led by Hubble in... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 30 | SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadliest tornado disasters ever.... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Day of the Asteroid Asteroids racing through the solar system have smashed into Earth before. What are the chances we'll get hit again? Armed with new defensive... |
