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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 universe begin? Where will it end? Are there other worlds

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    Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 5 - The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
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    #1 - 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  2. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 16 - Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
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    #2 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  3. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 18 - Mysteries of a Dark Universe
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    #3 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  4. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 19 - Crashing Into the Moon
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    #4 - Crashing Into the Moon

    S1:E19

    Over the next decade, the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and even private companies, are planning to send spacecraft to explore the moon. These missions are looking for resources that may one day allow humans to settle permanently in space.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  5. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 25 - Reinventing Space Flight
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    #5 - Reinventing Space Flight

    S1:E25

    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 sensitive components by launching them into radiation-filled environments of space aboard helium balloons. Their goal is to revolutionize space travel and exploration by harnessing the energy contained in the dynamic fourth state of matter: plasma.

    Directors:Andy Casagrande, Thomas Lucas
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 26 - Supervolcanoes
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    #6 - Supervolcanoes

    S1:E26

    They are eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mass extinction. Worse than a killer asteroid, or nuclear war, they are Earth's most destructive Supervolcanoes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  7. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 27 - Fate of Antarctica
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    #7 - Fate of Antarctica

    S1:E27

    The episode of Cosmic Journeys explores the intersection of paleoclimate and current climate science. Through its turbulent history, Antarctica has played an important role in the evolution of planet Earth. This role will likely continue as a warming global climate begins to eat away at the ice sheets that cover the continent. The fate of the world as we know it is linked to the fate of Antarctica.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  8. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 28 - Life: Destiny or Chance?
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    #8 - Life: Destiny or Chance?

    S1:E28

    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 for the answer in the rise of two important components of life, dust and water.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  9. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 31 - Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth
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    #9 - Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth

    S1:E31

    Where do you look to glimpse the birth of a solar system like ours? Our sun is thought to have formed along with a range of stellar siblings. This star cluster likely moved out on its own, bound by gravity, in what astronomers call a "Moving Group."

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 32 - Hubble: Universe in Motion
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    #10 - Hubble: Universe in Motion

    S1:E32

    Since its launch 25 Years ago, the Hubble Telescope has returned images of unprecedented beauty of a dynamic and changing universe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 33 - SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
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    #11 - SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster

    S1:E33

    May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadliest tornado disasters ever. What did scientists learn when they peered into the realm of this SuperTornado?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  12. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 34 - Day of the Asteroid
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    #12 - Day of the Asteroid

    S1:E34

    Asteroids racing through the solar system have smashed into Earth before. What are the chances we'll get hit again? Armed with new defensive technologies, scientists are getting ready for the day, a decade, century from now: the Day of the Asteroid.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 35 - Black Holes and the High Energy Universe
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    #13 - Black Holes and the High Energy Universe

    S1:E35

    Astronomers are probing the high-energy cosmic frontier with a series of key missions: Fermi, Swift, Chandra, NuSTAR, and Hubble.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 36 - The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth
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    #14 - The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth

    S1:E36

    Planet hunters have detected nearly 5000 confirmed and candidate planets beyond our solar system. Most sun-like stars, it seems, are ringed with giant planets that crowd their parent stars and leave no room for planets like ours. The old theories about planetary formation are giving way to a new one defined by fierce gravitational battles and titanic collisions. How did Earth manage to survive?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 37 - Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy
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    #15 - Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy

    S1:E37

    A startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earth's largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation. Two rapidly spinning neutron stars have violently merged to form a possible black hole. And, for the first time, astronomers see its electromagnetic flash and hear its gravitational thunder as they watch new elements being born.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 23 - Voyager: Journey to the Stars
    6.4/10(33 votes)

    #16 - 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  17. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 17 - The Riddle of AntiMatter
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #17 - 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  18. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 3 - Super Hurricanes
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  19. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 12 - Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight
    6.7/10(7 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:David Sky Brody, Thomas Lucas

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  20. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 14 - Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  21. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 30 - The Age of Hubble
    6.7/10(44 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  22. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 8 - The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
    6.8/10(13 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  23. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 29 - Interstellar Flight
    6.8/10(64 votes)

    #23 - 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?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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  24. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 9 - Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:David Sky Brody, Thomas Lucas

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  25. Cosmic Journeys Season 1 Episode 15 - Is the Universe Infinite?
    7.1/10(7 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Thomas Lucas

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Largest Black Holes in the Universe" is the worst rated episode of "Cosmic Journeys". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Thomas Lucas, it aired on 9/27/2009. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets".