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How the Universe Works
How the Universe Works

How the Universe Works

—"How the Universe Works" is the ultimate cosmos operator's manual, a revealing look at the inner workings of outer space. Computer imagery allows viewers to explore black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, dark energy, and all of the other forces that produce what exists and what people see.
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Season 38 of 9 Episodes

  • Examining how light travels out from the core of the sun through gravity and magnetism.

  • Examining the ways the universe could come to an end.

  • Beneath Jupiter's clouds lie the solar system's deepest secrets.

  • The most important second in history which seals the Universe's fate.

  • Scientists are looking for life on Saturn's moons, and they may have found it on Titan.

  • The universe's weapons of extinction; asteroids strike; planets collide; black holes blast out death rays; volcanoes erupt and ice engulfs the plane.

  • Research suggests that supermassive black holes might be the creator of the Milky Way.

  • Scientists are working on new propulsion systems that would allow travel to distant worlds.

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28 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets
    Are Black Holes Real?
    Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries
    Death of the Milky Way
    Uranus & Neptune: Rise of the Ice Giants
    War on Asteroids
    The Quasar Engima
    Secret History of Mercury
    Dark History of the Solar System
    Asteroid Apocalypse: The New Threat
  • Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets

    Our solar system is home to hundreds of strange, tiny worlds called dwarf planets, and new discoveries reveal the secrets of these mysterious places.
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  • Are Black Holes Real?

    Cosmologists say there are black holes throughout the Universe, but they've never seen one, and it's almost impossible to study them directly.
    Upcoming
  • Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries

    Star systems with binary stars, once relegated to science-fiction, may actually exist and serve as ideal places for alien life to thrive.
    Upcoming
  • Death of the Milky Way

    Experts utilize the latest science and discoveries to investigate the cause of the Milky Way galaxy's gradual death.
    Upcoming
  • Uranus & Neptune: Rise of the Ice Giants

    Uranus and Neptune are mysterious, icy worlds at the edge of the solar system; new discoveries reveal that these strange planets may have helped start life on Earth.
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  • War on Asteroids

    Scientists use technology to stop an asteroid apocalypse; mankind comes closer to keeping Earth safe from killer space rocks.
    Upcoming
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"How the Universe Works" is the ultimate cosmos operator's manual, a revealing look at the inner workings of outer space. Computer imagery allows viewers to explore black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, dark energy, and all of the other forces that produce what exists and what people see.

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Erik Dellums, Phil Plait, Michelle Thaller, Richard Lintern, Mike Rowe

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