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The Best Episodes of Cosmic Journeys

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The Best Episodes of Cosmic Journeys

Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets. How did the...

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  1. Background image for Birth of a Black Hole
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #1 - Birth of a Black Hole

    S1:E21

    Spy satellites first saw these brief but extremely bright flashes of light in the 1960s. For three decades, gamma ray bursts for deep space were one of the persistent mysteries in all of science. It took a revolution in high-energy astronomy to prove that they are the distant birth cries of newborn black holes.

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for When Will Time End
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #2 - When Will Time End

    S1:E7

    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. These strange dense objects are like a clock that tick down to a distant moment when all matter and energy will dissipate into the void.

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    Director:Unknown
  3. Background image for How Large Is the Universe?
    7.9/10(7 votes)

    #3 - How Large Is the Universe?

    S1:E6

    The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the first micro-moments of our universe. Just as scientists began to make precise measurements of the observable universe, new ideas suggest that our visible patch is an impossibly small portion of the whole.

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Super Hurricanes
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Super Hurricanes

    S1:E3

    Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? Hurricanes are tropical storms that feed on solar heat captured by the oceans. When conditions are right, a hurricane can release this energy in a fury of wind and rain.

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    Director:Unknown
  5. Background image for Venus: Death of a Planet
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Venus: Death of a Planet

    S1:E13

    Long ago, from the fires of our Sun's birth, twin planets emerged: Venus and Earth. Nature draped one world in the greens and blues of life, while enveloping the other in acid clouds, high heat, and volcanic flows. Why did Venus take such a disastrous turn and Earth developed a vibrant biosphere?

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    Director:Unknown
  6. Background image for Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #6 - Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms

    S1:E22

    Join a small team of rocket designers as they open a window into the future of space travel.

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    Director:Thomas Lucas
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  8. Background image for Earth in 1000 Years
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Earth in 1000 Years

    S1:E24

    There are signs that Earth’s great stores of ice are beginning to melt. With sea levels beginning to rise, scientists are looking back at climates past to see where our planet may be headed 1000 into the future and beyond.

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    Director:Unknown
  9. Background image for Mars: Earth That Never Was
    7.5/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Mars: Earth That Never Was

    S1:E10

    Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise? If so, does anything still live somewhere underground? The search for answers has revealed the forces that long ago doomed the Red Planet.

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    Director:Unknown
  10. Background image for Birth of the Moon
    7.4/10(7 votes)

    #9 - Birth of the Moon

    S1:E1

    Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the Moon by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and craters, and probing its interior. Find out what the origins of the Moon can tell us about our own planet's beginnings.

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    Director:Unknown
  11. Background image for Attack of the Sun
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Attack of the Sun

    S1:E2

    Massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away... an angry sun vents its rage. Dark regions, called sunspots, appeared unexpectedly on its surface... a sign of rising tension within. It had been three and a half years since the sun last erupted in fury...at the peak of an 11-year cycle of solar flare-ups.

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    Director:Unknown
  12. Background image for Saturn's Mysterious Moons
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Saturn's Mysterious Moons

    S1:E4

    From the Cassini spacecraft comes one of the greatest photographic collections. Scientists are using it to uncover a trail of clues pointing to the energy sources and complex chemistry needed to spawn life.

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    Director:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Search for Earth-like Planets
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #12 - The Search for Earth-like Planets

    S1:E11

    What is the search for Earth-like planets telling us about our place in the cosmos? Is our Earth one of countless life-bearing worlds strewn about the galaxy, or is it a rare Garden of Eden in a barren universe?

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    Director:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #13 - The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe

    S1:E20

    What are the energy extremes that define our universe? And how much power can the cosmos wield? Climb a ladder of increasingly powerful events, from frigid gas clouds to nuclear explosions, and travel out to the seething environments of black holes. Find out where Earth fits in the vast power scales of the cosmos.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy

    S1:E9

    Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of our Milky Way galaxy. And yet, the clues have been piling up that something important, something strange is going on in there. Astronomers tracking stars in the center of the galaxy have found the best proof to date that black holes exist. Now, they are preparing to capture the first direct image of a supermassive black hole.

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    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Is the Universe Infinite?

    S1:E15

    Explore the biggest question of all. How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern times, we built giant telescopes that have allowed us to cast our gaze deep into the universe. Astronomers have been able to look back to near the time of its birth. They've reconstructed the course of cosmic history in astonishing detail.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
    6.8/10(13 votes)

    #16 - The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12

    S1:E8

    It's the ultimate buddy movie. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the second pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the moon. They combined precision with a sense of humor. But it was the rocks they picked up that would define the mission's legacy.

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    Director:Unknown
  18. Background image for Interstellar Flight
    6.8/10(63 votes)

    #17 - Interstellar Flight

    S1:E29

    Explore the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long voyage out into the galaxy. What imperatives will define the mission when it launches and finally arrives: exploration and science, or a struggle for survival?

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    Director:Unknown
  19. Background image for Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes

    S1:E14

    What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, from the coldest and bleakest reaches of our galaxy on out to the hottest and most violent places known.

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    Director:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Riddle of AntiMatter
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #19 - The Riddle of AntiMatter

    S1:E17

    One of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be may finally be yielding to human investigation. Scientists are mounting new efforts to figure out how matter survived, and what happened to its birth twin, a mysterious substance known as antimatter?

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Age of Hubble
    6.5/10(43 votes)

    #20 - The Age of Hubble

    S1:E30

    This staggeringly visual feast of a documentary Brings cutting-edge findings of modern astronomy to life with state-of-the-art animation, informed by supercomputer simulations of cosmic events. Marvel at the formation of a super-massive black hole 350 million lightyears away; admire the stunning beauty of the Orion nebula; and discover what the stars tell us about our place in the stretch of time and space.

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight
    6.4/10(7 votes)

    #21 - Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight

    S1:E12

    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 most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system.

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  23. Background image for Voyager: Journey to the Stars
    6.4/10(33 votes)

    #22 - Voyager: Journey to the Stars

    S1:E23

    The two Voyager spacecraft are part of an ancient quest to push beyond our boundaries... to see what lies beyond the horizon. Now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth, two spacecraft are streaking out into the void. What will we learn about the Galaxy, the Universe, and ourselves from Voyager's epic Journey to the stars?

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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
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    #23 - The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

    S1:E5

    Our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to harbor millions of black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there's evidence of something far more ominous. A breed of black holes that has reached incomprehensible size and destructive power. Just how large, and violent, and strange can they get?

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
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    #24 - Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets

    S1:E16

    The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. Scientists are beginning to envision what these worlds are like, and in the process, redefining what a planet might need to spawn life.

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    Director:Unknown
  26. Background image for Mysteries of a Dark Universe
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    #25 - Mysteries of a Dark Universe

    S1:E18

    Cosmology has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-increasing rate. The scientists who made this discovery were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Birth of a Black Hole" is the best rated episode of "Cosmic Journeys". It scored 8.2/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Thomas Lucas, it aired on 11/29/2012. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "When Will Time End".