The Long Astronomical Perspective • 1989 • episode "7/10" • The Sagan Series

46:04

The Ship of the Imagination ventures on an epic voyage to the bottom of a dewdrop to explore the universe on the smallest scale and observe exotic life forms invisible to the naked eye. Then, host Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the neural network in our brains which determine our sense of smell and memory, and later, he travels deep beneath the surface of the Earth to discover the most mysterious particle we know.

S1E6 • Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey • 2014 • Astronomy

11:13

Today we’re talking about our galactic neighborhood: The Milky Way. It’s a disk galaxy, a collection of dust, gas, and hundreds of billions of stars, with the Sun located about halfway out from the center. The disk has grand spiral patterns in it, formed by the traffic jams of stars and nebulae, where stars are born. The central region is shaped like a bar, and is mostly old, red stars. There’s also a halo surrounding us of old stars.

37 • Crash Course Astronomy • 2015 • Astronomy

47:03

Astronaut Chris Hadfield has seen the bullet holes left by asteroids on Earth's surface. Our planet is vulnerable. Could we ever survive elsewhere?

6/10 • One Strange Rock • 2018 • Astronomy

59:02

Brian Cox explores the ingredients needed for an intelligent civilisation to evolve in the universe - the need for a benign star, for a habitable planet, for life to spontaneously arise on such a planet and the time required for intelligent life to evolve and build a civilisation. Brian weighs the evidence and arrives at his own provocative answer to the puzzle of our apparent solitude.

S1E3 • Human Universe • 2014 • Astronomy

65:29

Welcome to BBC Earth Lab! Always wanted to know what the world’s strongest material is? Why trains can’t go uphill? Or How big our solar system really is? Well, you’ve come to the right place.

BBC Earth Lab • 2023 • Astronomy

59:27

The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy.

S1E1 • Everything & Nothing • Astronomy