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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Only 12 people have walked on the Moon. With this documentary, it’s time for you to join them.
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The Universe: The Search for Cosmic Clusters
This documentary takes a look at cosmic clusters.
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Mysteries of a Dark Universe
This documentary delves into some of the mysteries our universe harbors, mainly dark energy.
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Professor Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars
For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics.
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Solarmax
Every 11 years the sun’s poles reverse with unimaginable violence, the peak of the storm is called a solarmax. The hottest film under the sun, Solarmax is a breathtaking exploration into the awesome vastness and mysterious power of our closest star.
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Seeing Stars
Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe. Young stars, black holes, even other forms of life. They have created a dazzling new set of super-telescopes that promise to rewrite the story of the heavens.
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The Mars Underground
Mars, as a destination for our planet’s various combined space agencies, is both an amazingly welcoming Earth-like world, as well as a cold, forbidding and distant challenge. Unlike our Moon, Mars will be the stepping stone to the rest of the universe, and will be the first real and sustainable off-world human colony.
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Destination Titan
A documentary following the work of British scientists involved in preparing a space probe to travel to Saturn’s largest moon – a two billion-mile journey that was to take seven years. The film explores the sacrifices involved in the project, and the scientists talk about their hopes for the probe, and their thoughts on its landing.
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The Space Shuttle: A Horizon Guide
In 2011, after more than 30 years of service, America’s space shuttle Discovery will take to the skies for the last time. Its story has been characterized by incredible triumphs, but blighted by devastating tragedies – and the BBC and Horizon have chronicled every step of its career.
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Dark Future of the Sun
In this documentary we voyage some five billion years into the future to see how the Sun will eventually end its existence and affect the future of life on our planet.
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The Universe: Alien Faces
Armed with scientific fact and a little imagination, experts come together to take you on an unprecedented journey to the edges of our imagination. Scientists, astrobiologists and astronomers create five lines of extraterrestrial evolution, and explain how creatures on the surface of Earth offer a helping hand to understanding life in The Universe.
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Wonders of the Universe
Who are we? Where do we come from? For thousands of years humanity has turned to religion and myth for answers to these enduring questions. But in this documentary series, Brian Cox presents a different set of answers through science.
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